Tony Blair visits Inverness Caledonian Thistle

Tony Blair visits Inverness Caledonian Thistle

ID: PC_INVFOOT_STEWART_DAVID_001 DESCRIPTION: During the 1997 Scottish Labour Party Conference in Inverness, the leader of the Labour Party, Tony Blair, visited the Caledonian Stadium, home of Inverness Caledonian Thistle FC. He is pictured alongside his party's Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber constituency, David Stewart, who would go on to be elected at the forthcoming election held a few weeks later. Behind them are Dougie MacGillivray, then Chairman of Inverness Caledonian Thistle, and George Robertson, the Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland. During the visit, a scratch game was organised involving pupils from Cradlehall and St Joseph’s primary schools, ICT players Charlie Christie and Richard Hastings, the club’s youth development, Danny Macdonald, as well as Tony Blair and David Stewart. PLACENAME: Inverness OLD COUNTY/PARISH: INVERNESS: Inverness and Bona DATE OF IMAGE: 7 March 1997 PERIOD: 1990s SOURCE: David Stewart COLLECTION: Inverness Football Memories - photographs Asset ID: 50705 KEYWORDS: