The Gulag of the North
Recorded 1 year ago
About this recording
Originally from Glasgow, Tom Allan was a history teacher and senior manager at Wick High School from 1974 to 1998.
“I’ll make no bones about it – I came to Wick for a job, knowing next to nothing about the place,” says Tom.
However, in this recording Tom explains not only what brought him to Caithness, but he reflects upon some of the reasons why he decided to stay and make Caithness, and Wick in particular, his home.
“So many things impressed me about living in Wick and Caithness. I’ve been fortunate to have travelled a fair bit and lived in different environments; but I have never encountered such a diversity and concentration of talents as there is in Caithness.”
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