The summer had been good to the people of Inver and the surrounding areas with an excellent harvest. Women could be seen busy tending to their neat flower beds next to their small lime and thatched cottages or carrying two buckets of water hanging from a hoop around their waist with children playing or going to school.

It appeared to be like any other year but the world was at war. The cottages had blacked out windows and the children carried gas masks to school, but worst of all Inver was empty and deserted of most of their young men who were called up on the 1st September 1939.

With the prospect of a few weeks away on camping holidays many had joined up much earlier during a big recruiting drive never suspecting they would find themselves at Tain railway station waving goodbye to their loved ones. Many locals were given time off work to bid them farewell.

The effect of the war, on School life, was felt from the very beginning with the children having time off and the local Home Guard unit using the school for training. However little did the children suspect when they were welcoming evacuees from Glasgow that they themselves, in four years time would be in the same position.