The Old High Inverness

26/06/2026

Hello! As we get ever closer to opening more regularly, we need some extra bodies to help us spruce the place up a wee bit. So, if anyone is free on Wednesday 1st July, between 10:30am to 12pm, maybe you’d like to come down and help us polish the old pews. Good company, good craic, and a very good cause! Just bring yourself - we have all the cleaning materials! You’ll even get a cuppa ☕️🤗

25/06/2026

If you were at our initial public meeting, you’ll have had a glimpse of what this building is like inside, but there is so much more to see. Well worth a look 🤗

The Town House Unlocked 🔑🔒

For one day only, step inside one of Inverness's most iconic buildings and uncover the stories, architecture and treasures that have been at the heart of the Highland capital for generations.

📅Wednesday 8 July
📍Inverness Town House
⏰10:00 - 15:00 (30-minute time slots)
💷£5 per person (limited complimentary tickets available for Highland residents)

Spend 30 minutes exploring the magnificent Main Hall and the foyer of the Town House at your own pace to uncover its extraordinary stories and history.

Book now 👇
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/visitinvernesslochnessltd/2276734

25/06/2026

Our deepest condolences go to Gus’ family on hearing this very sad news today.

He was a supporter of what we are planning here at the Old High, and would always ask how things were going. He was a man of the people, a legend in Inverness, raising thousands of pounds for local charities. If you were ever in his company, you’d always leave with a smile on your face. He’ll be sorely missed by all who knew him.

24/06/2026

Congratulations to our friends at Good Craic Cafe on winning the window display for the World Cup! 🤗🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿⚽️🏆

23/06/2026

We will be there again this year, so come and say hello! Try your luck on the tombola, have a chat, and see what our plans are 🤗

🌟 Just 3 weeks to go!

The countdown is officially on for the Inverness Highland Games! 🎉

Get ready for a fantastic day of traditional Highland Games action, pipe bands, Highland dancing, heavy events, family entertainment, and delicious food and drink

Grab your tickets now 👇 👇
🎟️ https://www.tickettailor.com/events/highlandcouncil

📆 Sat 11 July | 10:30
📍 Bught Park

23/06/2026

It’s Armed Forces Week this week, so here is a post from our old page, telling one of the many stories about the Cameron Highlanders.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=122164730186807638&id=61574229155815

23/06/2026

Inverness musician and composer extraordinaire, Lorne Balfe, wishing the Scotland football team good luck!! We wonder if he’d like to come and play the Father Henry Willis organ in the Old High? 🤔 You’d be more than welcome sir!

https://www.threads.com//post/DZ7JI3WDORl?xmt=AQG0uJSTEpikE-r0OX5EtB2ry_h81qiGScy-ne0QZbNdugZCjmoa_FxgQxNjjoPqRVP6t38&slof=1

23/06/2026

Representatives from The Old High Board were pleased to be invited to take part in discussions in Strathpeffer about the bid for the City of Culture 2029. The bid proposes to look at Inverness and the wider Highland region. The Old High was, and we hope will again become, the heart of Inverness civic life. We could contribute in many way, as a likely venue for Highland music and drama, a showcase for Highland crafts, as a resting place on a pilgrim trail between Iona and Portmahomack, by building on our links with the Highland regiments and with the many families in Scotland and overseas who cherish their Inverness and Highland roots.

You can find out more about the Bid, and add your suggestions at the following link

Beò to be alive; to be full of life… Inverness-Highland is in the running for UK City of Culture 2029. Let’s show the world why. We’re gathering stories and ideas about the brilliant things that happen across the city and the Highlands. It might be a place, a sound, a person, something that h...

23/06/2026

Thankfully the market was rebuilt and is a great attraction in the city.

22/06/2026

Here is the third, and final story for now, from the Highland News article n 1935. This marks a very sad time in the history of Inverness, during the cholera epidemic. The date here is given as 1852, but in Ross Martin’s book, “A Short History of the Old High Church”, it states 1849, when 112 people reportedly died. It became known as “The Paupers Coffin”.

Highland News article 16 Feb 1935

“The Coffin in the Tower.

To revert to the old tower. The opinion may be ventured that comparatively few persons in the town are aware that an empty coffin stands in the tower, and has stood there for over eighty years. When in the year 1852 cholera swept over the north, so great was the daily number of deaths in Inverness that the demand for coffins could not be met. To cope with the emergency a coffin was secured, and in it successively the dead were laid and conveyed to the Chapelyard Burying-ground, whete they were placed in a long trench made for the purpose, and over which the present path runs. After the remains of the last victim were laid to rest the coffin was placed in the Old High Church Tower, where it now stands, a relic of a dread disease that brought sorrow, pain and death to many a home in Inverness.”