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THE AC 500?
This short extract is from Arthur's new book about the history of Strathpeffer and the surrounding area.
ANDREW CARNEGIE AT STRATHPEFFER.
Mr Carnegie, the great American millionaire, along with a party of ten, arrived from Cluny Castle, and stayed at the Spa Hotel, Strathpeffer, in July 1890.
Cluny Castle, at Laggan, near Newtonmore, was the summer residence of the Carnegie family for ten years until he bought Skibo Castle in 1897.
Strathpeffer was one of a number of stops that Andrew Carnegie & Party made on the 1890 tour. It reads a little like a modern-day NC500. Let’s call it the AC500.
“Mr and Mrs Carnegie and their friends greatly enjoyed their tour in the four-in-hand through the Highlands. They drove, in the first instance, from Cluny Castle to Invergloy; then up the valley of the Lochy and the Ness to Drumnadrochit, where they struck off for Strathglass, Beauly, and the West. They passed along by Strathpeffer and Achnasheen to Loch-Maree; thence to Ullapool and Inchnadamph, and back to Lairg. From Lairg they started for Tongue, and went along the north coast of Sutherland and Caithness to Thurso. Their next stage was to Wick and John o’Groats, and they returned along the East coast to Inverness, where they arrived on Thursday evening. The party left Inverness on Friday with the four-in-hand shortly before noon for Cluny Castle, going by way of Daviot and Carr-Bridge.”
The approximate distance travelled on today’s roads would be about 450 miles.
This short extract is from Arthur's new book about the history of Strathpeffer and the surrounding area.
ANDREW CARNEGIE AT STRATHPEFFER.
Mr Carnegie, the great American millionaire, along with a party of ten, arrived from Cluny Castle, and stayed at the Spa Hotel, Strathpeffer, in July 1890.
Cluny Castle, at Laggan, near Newtonmore, was the summer residence of the Carnegie family for ten years until he bought Skibo Castle in 1897.
Strathpeffer was one of a number of stops that Andrew Carnegie & Party made on the 1890 tour. It reads a little like a modern-day NC500. Let’s call it the AC500.
“Mr and Mrs Carnegie and their friends greatly enjoyed their tour in the four-in-hand through the Highlands. They drove, in the first instance, from Cluny Castle to Invergloy; then up the valley of the Lochy and the Ness to Drumnadrochit, where they struck off for Strathglass, Beauly, and the West. They passed along by Strathpeffer and Achnasheen to Loch-Maree; thence to Ullapool and Inchnadamph, and back to Lairg. From Lairg they started for Tongue, and went along the north coast of Sutherland and Caithness to Thurso. Their next stage was to Wick and John o’Groats, and they returned along the East coast to Inverness, where they arrived on Thursday evening. The party left Inverness on Friday with the four-in-hand shortly before noon for Cluny Castle, going by way of Daviot and Carr-Bridge.”
The approximate distance travelled on today’s roads would be about 450 miles.