The last traces of a former Inverness secondary school building will soon vanish from the city as demolition work nears completion.
Specialist contractors are taking down the final remnants of the old Inverness Royal Academy in Culduthel.
The work began at the end of November and initially focused on the removal of fixed furnishings and asbestos from inside the building.
The asbestos removal team had to wear full protective suits, and accessed the building via a decontamination chamber, while wrapping, bagging and sealing all of the hazardous material.
The demolition follows the opening of a new £34million secondary school next to the former buildings in summer last year.
The new school can accommodate 1,420 pupils and has 171,824sq ft of floor space, including 39 practical, 40 non-practical and five tutorial classrooms, plus six rooms for Gaelic teaching.
However, the project was beset by delays and three contractors were hit with improvement notices by the Health and Safety Executive after the wrong material was used while fitting the gas pipes.
Some of the issues will not be fully resolved until this summer – a year after pupils moved to the new building.
Once the old structure has been completely taken down over the next few weeks, the site will be cleared to make way for a new playground, car parking, and part of two new all-weather sports pitches.
Inverness Royal Academy was founded in 1792, when it replaced the town grammar school.
In 1793 a Royal Charter was obtained from King George III and, as Inverness Royal Academy, the school operated on Academy Street until 1895, when it moved to Midmills Road in the Crown area.
This building housed the academy until August 1977 when part of the school moved to the current site, and two years later the school completed its switch to Culduthel.
Demolition of all non-listed buildings at the old academy site at Midmills has also begun this month to make way for more than 80 retirement homes.