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High Street, DINGWALL, IV15 9RY

The annual street festival (Great Feil Maree) organised by the Dingwall Rotary Club was in full swing.

On the High Street.

The building now houses Dingwall Museum.

Dingwall Town House, the photograph was taken at 20:54, not midnight as depicted on the clock. The central stone tower below the later 19th c. clock tower is the original 17th c. tolbooth. https://canmore.org.uk/site/12814

18th century civic building on High Street. The building has apparently been given a new colour scheme in the last eighteen months - see Image

The cross was recently taken indoors into the town's museum to prevent further salt erosion. It now stands next to a window in the museum, only a few feet away from its former position in the corner angle between the museum building and adjacent Town House. It stood originally where Castle Street meets the High Street.

The stone tower of the old tolbooth dates from 1733. One of the building's claims to fame is that it was the venue for a performance by the Liverpool pop group 'The Beatles' in 1963. After hearing a sample of the 'Merseybeat', some of the audience left, preferring to join a crowd of 1,200 watching a local rock group 'The Melotones' performing in Strathpeffer, four miles down the road. Weeks after the event, the Beatles' single 'Please, Please Me' topped the British charts and they swiftly went on to become the most popular pop band in the world. A reunion of the original band of 19 faithful audience members who stayed behind that evening was held in 2011. "I remember The Beatles were late in arriving and when they came on stage one by one they were wearing three-quarter-length leather jackets, long scarves - one was trailing his on the ground behind him - and winkle pickers. Everyone was laughing at them. But they were brilliant and they chatted with the audience between songs." -- Olive Lees, Dingwall resident, aged 64, speaking in 2011

The clock still not showing the correct time, the photo was taken at 2051 and not 1146. The Macdonald Monument on the skyline

The band was part of the annual street festival (Great Feil Maree) organised by the Dingwall Rotary Club. The Tin Pan Alley Club band based in Inverness plays New Orleans Dixieland style music.