Carolina Nairne
Scottish songwriter, many of whose songs, such as “Will ye no’ come back again?” and “Charlie is my Darling”, remain popular today, almost two hundred years after they were written.
Pit Brow Women
Female surface labourers at British collieries. They worked at the coal screens on the pit brow (pit bank) at the shaft top until the 1960s. Their job was to pick stones and sort the coal after it was hauled to the surface.
Florence Nagle
Trainer and breeder of racehorses, a breeder of pedigree dogs, and an active feminist
Inchdrewer Castle
16th-century tower house in the parish of Banff, Aberdeenshire, in the northeast of Scotland.
Stoor worm
Gigantic evil sea serpent of Orcadian folklore
Boobrie
Shapeshifting entity of the lochs of the west coast of Scotland
Sea Mither
Mythical being of Orcadian folklore that lives in the sea during summer; also known as Mither of the Sea
Overtoun Bridge
Bridge over the Overtoun Burn on the western approach road to Overtoun House, near Dumbarton in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland that has attracted international media attention because of the number of dogs that have reportedly leapt from it, often to their deaths after landing on the rocks below.
Robert Southey
Robert Southey (12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the Lake Poets along with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and England’s poet laureate for 30 years from 1813 until his death in 1843
Blue men of the Minch
Mythological creatures who seek out sailors to drown and stricken boats to sink.