Sunday 5th September 1819
Sunday 5th Sept We did not go to Church till the evening English service was tolerably performed there the Church is very small but there are others where the Scotch service is performed that are larger we then walked about the town which is irregularly built & not very large there is a pretty bridge of seven arches thrown over the river Ness which divides part of the town the streets are narrow but it is a pretty looking town
OBSERVATIONS & COMMENTS:
Church: Contemporary Anglican church not found
The Town:
Inverness, engraved by M J Starling after J Brown, published by K. Douglas, Inverness. http://www.rareoldprints.com/p/20128
The city today
2006: High Street, Inverness, Highland, Scotland , by sunny ravin and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_street_in_inverness.jpg
Bridge: A series of wooden bridges first occupied this site. A seven-span masonry arch viaduct was built here in 1685, but washed away in a flood in 1849 http://happypontist.blogspot.com/2012/07/scottish-bridges-32-ness-bridge.html Ness bridge, with its seven arches, is shown in the 1836 print below.
1836: Inverness from the West. (Inverness-shire). Engraving by R. Sands after T. Allom. https://antique-prints-maps.com/acatalog/ref1.php?imagefile=../largeimages/SEInvernessFromWest.jpg
Lucy notes that the river Ness …divides part of the town :
circa 1875: "Inverness" published in Picturesque Europe. http://www.antiqueprints.com/proddetail.php?prod=g9495
2004: River Ness in Inverness, Scotland. (Daveahearn-commonswiki). Released into the public domain by the copyright holder. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:River_Ness.jpg
Can you help us?
Church: Where was the Anglican church that Lucy judged “very small”?
Old Regency Prints, Pictures an Coaching maps: Do you have access to any prints or pictures showing what town and country would have looked like when Lucy travelled through? Any illustrations of what she would have seen in 1819 will enliven our research.
New Pictures: Do you have any modern pictures of the streets, buildings, gardens and views that would enable us to see the changes that two centuries have wrought?