LOOKING BACK: Remembering Inverness's rise to city status
LOOKING BACK: Remembering Inverness's rise to city status By Contributor Published: 18:30, 14 December 2020 Get the Inverness Courier sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day's newspaper Columnist Bill McAllister remembers how the Highland capital became a Millennium City. This is a milestone weekend for Friday, December 18, marks exactly 20 years since Inverness was named as one of the UKâs three new Millennium Cities. It was better late than never, for in 1897 the Royal Burgh of Inverness applied for city status as part of Queen Victoriaâs Di...