Verity Walker was appointed as the Project Development Manager for the Kirkmichael Trust, formally established in 2002 to acquire, repair and maintain the ancient Kirkmichael Church and associated Mausoleums on the shores of Udale Bay.

Since February 2016, Verity has been delivering the project’s Activities Programme and in her talk she will look at interpretation as both an art and as a science. She will focus on recent developments and discoveries at Kirkmichael and the interconnected stories of the Kirk’s turbulent past, hectic present and reinvented future.

Verity Walker was brought up in the Black Isle by her mother Penny Poole, a local teacher and keen amateur historian. As a young girl, her summers were spent visiting historic sites such as castles or ruined burial grounds. This love of the past stayed with her and influenced her professional life with the National Trust, the Imperial War Museum and in her current role as a specialist in community related interpretation. On the night, Verity will bring along an object and invite the audience to interpret it, there and then!

Cromarty History Society meets in the West Church Hall, Cromarty at 7.30pm on the the third Thursday of each month, September - April