• Gathering at the east end of Jemimaville, with the fields of Udale and Poyntzfield (Jane Duncan’s “Poyntdale”) behind.
  • Scott’s Garage (the relocated Resolis United Free Church). It was the garage owner, Hugh Scott, who conveyed Jane Duncan and his good friend, her Uncle George, from Inverness to Jemimaville on her return to live in the Black Isle in January 1959.
  • Jemimaville quaintly occupies only one side of the road.
  • Pausing outside the bowed windows of the former Free Church manse in Jemimaville.
  • The post office in Jemimaville may be small, but is important.
  • Rose Cottage, within which Jane Duncan lived with her beloved Uncle George, on her return to Scotland. Note the attactive ornamamental skewput.
  • Behind Rose Cottage is the Old Store, a former storehouse which Jane Duncan modernised. The current owners are Jane Duncan fans and keep the name “Reachfar” alive.
  • The tour guide is the Chairman of the Trust.
  • Jane Duncan’s “Old Store”, once the girnal or storehouse for the Poyntzfield Estate.
  • The original Free Church in Jemimaville, purchased by Jane Duncan, probably to protect her privacy.
  • The tour continued the following day through the fields of Udale to the Colony, Jane Duncan’s “Reachfar”.
  • The Colony is currently abandoned, a far cry from the busy farm life that Jane Duncan experienced on her holidays.
  • The granary at the Colony.
  • For a history of the Colony, see the Jemimaville/Colony booklet on the sales page.
  • Jane Duncan was the penname of Elizabeth Jane Cameron; her grandparents and uncle farmed the Colony.
  • The first occurrence we have noted of the name “the Colony” is in 1834.
  • On the left, the single window to the windy north, in which the guiding light was placed for visitors coming up the hill at night
  • The empty shell of the Colony.
  • Like most farmhouses in the area, the main doors and windows open to the warmth of the south.
  • The Jane Duncan celebrations continued with a tea-party hosted by the Camerons, in Cromarty.
  • Jane Duncan fans came from far afield to take part in the celebratory events.
  • Jane Duncan herself ran a tea shop (the “Friendly Shop”) in Cromarty where she could sell tea and provide an opportunity for her fans to meet her.
  • Mairi Hedderwick, Authoress and illustrator of the Katie Morag stories, and illustrator of Jane Duncan's "Janet Reachfar" stories for children, at the 2010 Cromarty Book Festival.
  • Jane Duncans headstone in Kirkmichael kirk yard.
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