I AM compiling a pictorial and historical record of local Territorials who served in the Great War with the 6th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders (Morayshire).

DURING the centenary week of the Scout movement it is a happy coincidence that evidence for Grantown's having had one of the earliest Scout troops in the North of Scotland has just turned up in the columns of this newspaper during its centenary year as the "Strathspey Herald".

I AM searching for a gentleman who was born Bruce Sharp Donald on the 14th April, 1937 in Crieff and later moved to Tomintoul.

From 1923 Frances Coutts Hendry OBE, MC, lived in Grantown-on-Spey at Woodside Avenue and is buried at the New Cemetery.

KINGUSSIE Guides were started in 1921 but on April 27, 1927, Lieutenant Doris Milliken presented a Union flag bearing the Guide Trefoil to the unit.

I AM preparing a dissertation on the history of Achnarrow Public School (1877-1959), where my mother taught for five years in the early 1950s.

I AM seeking information about my late father, who I believe was born in Kingussie in 1900. He moved to Nairn as a small child.

DO you remember old Aviemore of the 60s/70s/80s? “The Centre”, Santa Claus Land, the Strathspey, Badenoch, Post House and Freedom-Inn hotels?

DO you have memories of Christmas celebrations in the village of Aviemore during the 1950s and 1960s?