Photograph of a street scene in Grantown-on-Spey within the county of Moray in Scotland. To the right of the centre stands the orphanage with its domed clock tower and weather vane. Behind the orphanage stands the Grantown Arms comprising a single storey building. Two sapling trees encased within wooden fencing frame the view. Grantown was named after Sir James Grant (1738-1811). He co-founded the Royal Society of Edinburgh and was Lord Lieutenant of Inverness-shire. On the 5th September 1860, Queen Victoria drove through the town on her way from visiting Castle Grant and recorded in her journal that '..all the people were out, the landlady waved her handkerchief & the ringletted maid...would [sic] a flag from the windows!' RA VIC/MAIN/QVJ (W) 5th September 1860. This photograph is part of a portfolio of 42 photographs taken by Wilson that were used to illustrate a book featuring entries from Queen Victoria's journals, written during her visits to Scotland. Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands was published to great success in 1868.