Welcome to the
Thurso Heritage Society
website.
Designed and created by one of its own members the site will gradually
grow by time as more photographs and information comes to hand.
About the Society
In 1981 the Thurso Heritage Society was formed through an amalgamation of the Thurso Folk Museum, Friends of St. Peters and the Thurso Society.
All had similar interests and it was only sensible to form one existing body to cover all roles carried out by its three predecessors.
During its first year Thurso Heritage Society was already making progress in raising funds for necessary and specialist repair work towards Thurso's popular attraction Old St. Peters Church.
A large part of the work consisted of repairs to the substantial tracery window. Other phases had checked the structural failure in the tower and secured, pointed and capped all the walls. Restoration of the chapel entrance, paving of the Northeast corner and tiding of the yard were also completed.
Work started in the Thurso Museum in 1983 to catalogue, conserve and redisplay the museum exhibits. This was the first of two redevelopments that have taken place involving the Society in the former Carnegie Public Library.
The second redevelopment, seen the successful and major redevelopment of the building and the adjoining Town Hall. Caithness Horizons as it is now called was formed through the partnership by the U.K.A.E.A, Highland Council and the Society. Much of what is displayed and the associated information came from the collection which was safeguarded by the society or its members to promote not only the history of Thurso but also the county.
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