Golspie primary pupils' Titanic visit to heritage centre

Senior pupils at Golspie Primary School went on a very informative trip to Golspie Heritage Centre on Monday, writes school representative Aileen Mackay.

The purpose of the visit by primary five and six was linked to our topic – we are studying the tragedy of the Titanic this term.

We wanted to find out what life in Golspie was like in 1912, alongside asking for information about a man from Golspie, who we heard had died when the ship sank.

Thanks to Shirley Sutherland, secretary of Golspie Heritage Society, Johnny Melville and Val Ross, we found out his name was Norman Leslie Bogie and he lived in two houses in Golspie, one in Golspie Tower, which still stands, and one in the Main Street, which can't be identified.

Mr Bogie is buried in Nova Scotia in Canada.

We were also given information about George William Mackay from Skerray, a relative of one of our pupils, Ronan Macneil. Sadly, Mr Mackay also died in the tragedy.

We found out the history of our school and were interested to learn about how the original school burned down! The pupils asked lots of questions and were able to explore household objects and tools used at the time. They tried to guess what they were used for with some interesting answers!

Our grateful thanks to the team at the heritage centre. We loved our visit!

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