The Invergordon Archive

Had a beautiful garden with smashing apples......just right for "raiding" which most kids did, myself included...caught up a tree many a time with the Rev standing at bottom....bit of a scolding and told to be in church next Sunday.....his wife was a very nice lady indeed, when caught by her she would say "all you have to do is ask and I will give you some, somehow though it just didn't seem the same....

Yes, I too can remember going over the wall to get at the apples....but you had to be careful to avoid the Monkey Puzzle tree. My mother used to say that the Minister would only speak to you if you had a fur coat. I don't know about this but I remember he drove a vintage Rolls Royce car...

How the years cloud our memories!

Duncan Fraser was properly entitled "The Rev. Doctor". He was honoured by being appointed Moderator of the Church of Scotland late 50s early 60s I think. What a great photo of him. He was a lovely man.

I remember the Monkey Puzzle tree very well, as we didn't see many of them around our area. Mrs. Ross also came to visit me when I was in Inverness Royal Infirmary with acute appendicitis, when I was about 8. My Granny gave me a telling off when I was sick, as she thought I had been pinching the minister's apples, like everyone else. Mrs. Fraser brought me a tube of Fruit Pastilles and a wee bottle of Lavender water. It was a long way from Invergordon to Inverness at that time, and I didn't get many visitors, but I was thrilled to bits to see her.

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