Wartime memorabilia goes on display
A NEW temporary exhibition at Dunbeath Heritage Centre is giving people from the parish of Latheron a special reason to spring clean their cupboards.
As part of this year’s nationwide Festival of Museums, supported by Museums Galleries Scotland, Dunbeath Heritage Centre has opened an exhibition of local World War One memorabilia.
With a clutch of significant artefacts already on display, centre manager Meg Sinclair hopes people will continue to bring in precious memorabilia to add to the exhibition, which will be open until the end of the year.
She said: "I’m really pleased by the response so far. There is special interest amongst local people who have contributed items from family members – some very touching sequences of letters, as well as a huge assortment of documents that have been lying in drawers and desks.
"People from other places have brought things in as well.

"One brilliant donation is a briefcase full of booklets, maps and photographs relating to WWI including things like a ‘Manual of Elementary Hygiene’ published in 1912."
The exhibition contains material from WWII as well as the Great War. Ration books, service discharge papers, medals and ribbons, and a growing number of photographs of men and women in service uniforms, give a fascinating and very personal insight into the daily reality of life in the forces and in the community during both wars.
Tin helmets, an RAF cap and some Bakelite radio equipment are among objects on display so far. New additions can either be brought in on temporary loan for the duration of the exhibition or donated to the centre on a permanent basis.
WW1 Memorabilia opened at Dunbeath last Friday and can been seen Monday to Friday from 10-5pm and on Sundays from 10-4pm.