Updated: August 4, 2021, 8:48 am
Support is growing for Invernessian Josephine Tey, the crime writer s crimewriter, to be commemorated in the city with a blue plaque
A groundswell of support has emerged for the placement of a blue plaque in Inverness to recognise one of its most successful daughters, featured recently in the P&J.
Best-selling author and playwright Elizabeth ‘Beth’ MacKintosh, aka Josephine Tey and Gordon Daviot (1896-1952) had strong connections with the city’s Castle Street, where her family owned a successful fruiterer and various other properties which they rented out.
One of their addresses, no 53 Castle Street, was demolished earlier this year, and is in the process of being rebuilt, complete with the original stone façade.
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Steve made the trip north in a 20-year-old mobile library van.
A BBC programme, Desperately Seeking Nessie, was aired about him in August 1992 – a year into his adventure.
In the late 1990s, his van failed its MOT and he converted it into a static home.
Since then, he’s been based in the Dores Inn car park, which backs out onto the beach.
It has no running water or electricity, but the pub has an outside tap and car batteries charged by a solar panel allow him to run his lights, radio and laptop.
He funds his lifestyle by selling miniature Nessie models, made out of modelling clay.