Gary Elder from Caol was the museum’s 55,000th visitor in 2017.
Photograph: Iain Ferguson.
FORT William’s West Highland Museum clocked up its highest number of visitors in 35 years when on its last day of opening in 2017, its 55,000th visitor walked through the door.
The visitor was Gary Elder, 50, from Caol, who was booking a table at a nearby restaurant and decided to drop in – for the first time since a primary school trip in 1979. He was greeted at the door by museum manager Colleen Barker, also a former pupil of Caol Primary School, who delivered the good news and presented him with a book outlining the history of the museum and its many exhibits.