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Thurso-based O'Brien Construction will start work next Monday, April 1, to transform the building into a heritage centre and visitor attraction.
A dip into the Northern Times of yesteryear
Kavinda Herath/Stuff Heather Hughes fires a World War I German cannon, with her husband Neil and helpers, Cullen McLeod, his father Todd McLeod and Peter Robson, looking on. The Hugheses, who own the cannon, tested it at a firing range at Otatara on Friday in preparation for it to be used at the Anzac Day Dawn Service at the Invercargill cenotaph on Sunday. The Hughes family’s World War I cannon passed its annual test on Friday for use at the Anzac Day Dawn Service in Invercargill on Sunday. It fired two blanks perfectly for owners Neil and Heather Hughes at a range in Otatara on Friday.