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Topic: Nethy Bridge Churchyard (Read 295 times)
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conner395
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Northern Police Pipe Band www.norconpipeband.co.uk
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Julz
"Abernethy Church" and graveyard is actually bit out of Nethybridge on the back road to Grantown on Spey. The churchyard is fairly small, but large enough when you are looking for a grave and dont know whereabouts it is. Like many such locations, many of the older gravestones are hard to read. It's in a lovely - but exposed - location, with the ruined Castle Roy nearby. It is accessible at all times, so far as I can recall. (The Nethybridge website has a map http://www.nethybridge.com/html/views_maps/villagemap.php - you need to take the B970 road from Nethy to Grantown)
You might be interested to know that the graveyard contains the graves of the only two police officers murdered in the course of the duty in the Highlands, from different eras and different counties! (PC James Fraser, Elginshire, stabbed in Grantown in 1878, and PC Thomas King, Inverness-shire, shot at Tulloch, Nethbridge in 1898).
You can see their graves at:
(PC King) : http://www.flickr.com/photos/conner395/803771270
(PC Fraser): http://www.flickr.com/photos/conner395/802886473
hope this helps
Dave
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Dave Conner
retired police officer / force historian (volunteer)
(Northern Constabulary)
Inverness, Scotland
Researching Police History of the Scottish Highlands and Islands
(Northern Constabulary area)
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Martin Briscoe
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J W L BRISCOE 72nd Highlanders
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I saw one of the police graves whilst photographing war graves for The War Grave Photographic Project so took a picture.
I later contacted the Police Roll of Honour Trust to see if they were interested in photographs of the graves of police officers on their Roll of Honour. They were so I sent my picture and promised to take one of the other grave when I went back to photograph another war grave there.
It might be worth you contacting them and offering your photographs for their records.
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BRISCOE - Bolton, Heaton Norris, Rochdale, Oldham, Chadderton, Blackburn
POUNDER - Middleton Tyas, Kirkbymoorside, Stokesley, Lambeth, Bolton, Newcastle on Tyne, Leeds
HAMMOND - Quebec, Laverton, Masham, Grantley
SWALES - Laverton, Masham
O'Shea - Quebec
PARRY - Caerhun, Deiniolen, Clwt y Bont, Brynrefail, Tal y Sarn, Brynrefail, Bethesda
EVANS - Llanfihangel Bryn Pabuan, Maesmynis, Dowlais, Stockton on Tees, Hartlepool, Trealaw
HARVEY - Trentham, Sheriffhales, Llanfyllin, Llanferres, Minera
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Martin Briscoe
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J W L BRISCOE 72nd Highlanders
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Good, I don't think they are using the pictures at the moment but perhaps ones day they will have them on the website.
Plenty of war graves to photograph if you want something to photograph 
Martin Briscoe
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BRISCOE - Bolton, Heaton Norris, Rochdale, Oldham, Chadderton, Blackburn
POUNDER - Middleton Tyas, Kirkbymoorside, Stokesley, Lambeth, Bolton, Newcastle on Tyne, Leeds
HAMMOND - Quebec, Laverton, Masham, Grantley
SWALES - Laverton, Masham
O'Shea - Quebec
PARRY - Caerhun, Deiniolen, Clwt y Bont, Brynrefail, Tal y Sarn, Brynrefail, Bethesda
EVANS - Llanfihangel Bryn Pabuan, Maesmynis, Dowlais, Stockton on Tees, Hartlepool, Trealaw
HARVEY - Trentham, Sheriffhales, Llanfyllin, Llanferres, Minera
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