Historic Cities
Walk Inverness in 1880
AI rebuilds Inverness street by street, and you walk through it in your browser.
Historic Places, Rebuilt · City walk
Victorian Inverness, 1880
Inverness in 1880 is the Highland capital newly shaped by rail and the Caledonian Canal, its red sandstone castle and cathedral facing each other across the River Ness. The walk moves from the firth and canal basins into the town’s streets and riverbanks, with railway tourists, tweed shops, Highland games and river islands forming the everyday life you will see.
34 scenes — 22 streets, squares and views, 12 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Inverness as it stood in 1880 (“Inverness”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Kessock Ferry
- 2. Ness Islands
- ↳ Boating Pavilion · interior
- 3. Bank Street Promenade
- 4. Ness Bridge
- 5. Bridge Street
- 6. Inverness Castle
- ↳ Courtroom · interior
- 7. St Andrew's Cathedral
- ↳ Stone Nave · interior
- 8. Church Street
- ↳ Draper's Cutting Room · interior
- 9. High Street
- ↳ Tweed Workroom · interior
- 10. Castle Wynd
- 11. Old High Church
- 12. Town Market
- ↳ Barrel-Vaulted Exchange · interior
- 13. Rose Street
- 14. Inverness Station
- ↳ Booking Hall · interior
- 15. Station Hotel Forecourt
- ↳ Grand Dining Saloon · interior
- 16. Muirtown Basin
- ↳ Lock-Keeper's Kitchen · interior
- 17. Canal Locks Entrance
- ↳ Saloon Deck · interior
- 18. Merkinch Quay
- ↳ Herring Curing Loft · interior
- 19. Longman Road
- 20. Northern Meeting Park
- ↳ Games Pavilion · interior
- 21. Tomnahurich Hill
- 22. Citadel and Cromwell's Tower