Hello again,

I'm wondering if anyone here on this thread who was at the orphanage has any recollections of a particular family.  The Mackenzie brothers from Assynt were there from Dec 1941 until Aug 1945.  George and Kenneth were twins, must have been around three when they arrived, and my father, Rodney, was a baby of about 10 months.  My dad used to talk about Dagmar, saying that he remembers her kindness.  He said he can't remember anything terrible happening but I don't think there was much love from those who ran it, or at least not in an affectionate way you might crave as a young child.  He was lucky though as his father remarried and the three of them were reunited with him and their two older siblings so from that point onwards their childhood became a little more 'normal' with their life in lovely Lochinver.

In the garden of the Highland Orphanage, Inverness, 1930s [Gordon Shennan Collection, Inverness Museum & Art Gallery]

This website may be of assistance to those research chidrens' homes:
https://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/