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A REPUTATION FOR EXCELLENCE
A History of the Aberdeen and Northern Counties Printing
Industry

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Northern Counties - Golspie
In 1998, the year after the move to new premises the Countess of
Sutherland sold The Northern Tin to lain Carmichael, chairman and
managing director of Method Publishing Company Ltd. I remained in
control until 1994 when he sold both companies to Scottish Provincial
Press. Short thereafter Seaforth Photo-Litho Ltd cease making plates
for The Northern Times and in 19 the firm closed down.
James Henderson retired as editor in July 19~ after a period in
hospital and was succeeded F Duncan Ross who had been acting editor
for several months. He belongs to an Inverness family of which four
generations have now been connected with local and national newspapers
over the past one hundred years or so.
The printing of The Northern Times at Golspie ended in 1995 when
production was switched to The John OGroat Journal presses
at Wick. Two years later another transfer took place and the newspaper
is now printed at the premises of Ti Ross-shire Journal at Dingwall.
However, commercial printing operations continue at the Times premises
at Golspie.
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Volume 3 published 1996
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