Older County Buildings, Inverness, 1964

ID: QZP40_MELDRUM_085 DESCRIPTION: The County Buildings on Ardross Street/Glenurquhart Road, Inverness were built as Inverness College, a public school for day pupils and boarders from 1873 to c.1914. During this time it was also known as Inverness Collegiate School, The Boys' College and Northern Counties Collegiate School. After wartime occupation by the Admiralty, the buildings were bought and presented to the County Education Authority in 1921 as Inverness Royal Academy War Memorial Hostel. They became known as the County Buildings in the early 1930s when the hostel moved to Heatherfield and Inverness County Council began moving several of its departments into the building. It remained as the headquarters of Inverness-shire County Council until local government re-organisation in 1974 when the much-extended building became the HQ of Highland Regional Council. The photograph shows a newly-built annex. PLACENAME: Inverness OLD COUNTY/PARISH: INVERNESS: Inverness and Bona CREATOR (AV): Edward Meldrum DATE OF IMAGE: May 1964 PERIOD: 1960s SOURCE: Highland Libraries COLLECTION: Edward Meldrum's Photographs of Inverness Asset ID: 37982 KEYWORDS:

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