Monday 6th September 1819
Monday 6th Sept remained here the whole of the day.
OBSERVATIONS & COMMENTS:
We have no record of what the family did on this day. There was a castle, but it is not the one we see today, which was built in 1836 by architect William Burn on the site of an 11th-century defensive structure.
Castle of Inverness. J. Clack, lithographed by Schenck, Edinburgh. This image is in the public domain and is available from the National Library of Scotland under the sequence number or Shelfmark ID Blaikie.SNPG. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverness_Castle#/media/File:Jacobite_broadside_-_Castle_of_Inverness..jpg
The castle today houses the Inverness Sheriff Court and is not generally open to the public.
2010: Inverness Castle and River Ness, Inverness, Scotland, by Dave Conner from Inverness. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inverness_Castle_and_River_Ness_Inverness_Scotland_-_conner395.jpg
2011: Inverness Castle by Avarim, the copyright holder of this work, and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:001_-_inverness_castle.jpg
If they wandered around the city they may also have seen the streets that Pierre Delavault painted in the last decade of the century.
Streets of Inverness: Neil Fraser has published an excellent article on Pierre Delavault, who was born in Paris in 1859, but came to Inverness as the Art Master at Inverness Royal Academy in 1890. A book published in 1903 featuring his watercolour paintings of Inverness scenes is an important source of information on buildings which have since disappeared. The following are taken from Neil Fraser’s wonderful article entitled: Pierre Delavault: Visions Of Inverness https://www.lostinverness.co.uk/pierre-delavault/
W. Mackay, bookseller and stationer on the High Street.
A Castle Street courtyard.
The house in Abertarff Close, built in 1592-93, is the oldest building still standing in Inverness today.
Gordon Place next to the bridge. These homes were replaced by Castle Tolmie in 1900.
Building on the corner of Church Street and Queensgate
Can you help us?
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?