In Person
2024 Theme
Highland – Caithness & Sutherland
Brora Heritage Centre
21 - 22 September 2024
Brora Heritage Centre has an eclectic mix of artefacts, images and stories of Brora’s unique Highland industrial history. There’s even a reconstruction of the old coal mine for you to explore.
Having Britain’s most northerly coal mine, this rich resource fuelled a range of spin-off industries, including the making of bricks, whisky, tweed and salt. Nowhere in the Highlands is there a place like Brora and the centre tells the story of this remarkable hidden gem in Scotland’s north.
BHC is run by Clyne Heritage Society, a very active heritage group, based in the village of Brora (in the parish of Clyne) on the east coast of Sutherland in the Highlands of Scotland.
The fully constituted Society was formed in 1998 by a group of people living in the parish who were interested in preserving Clyne’s fascinating and quickly disappearing heritage, e.g. demolition of coal mine in 1981 and Hunter’s Woollen Mill in 2004. The Society has acquired registered charitable status; it is made up of a committee of 8 and currently has a membership of over 200 people, spread far and wide.
We are actively involved in supporting all heritage matters within our own parish, and we are also concerned in the wider heritage affairs of the whole of the County of Sutherland.
