The Girls at Gearraidh Thodail Left, Mairead Macdonald (8 Kneep) and right, her sister Chirsty Ann (Ciorstaidh Anna a’Phurpois) at the shieling at Gearraidh Thodail. … Continue reading “The Girls at Gearraidh Thodail”…
The Centenerian From the Inverness Courier of 25 March 1846: A correspondent has favoured us with some further particulars relative to the… Continue reading “The Centenerian”…
Valtos School 1966-67 Photo taken by Aneas Maclean, nephew of Mrs Jessie Macdonald 24 Valtos, while on student placement. We’ll expect the gaps… Continue reading “Valtos School 1966-67”…
Lochcroistean School Reunion, Saturday 30 May Next month marks 130 years since Lochcroistean School was first opened, under the first headmaster, John Smith from Valtos, and… Continue reading “Lochcroistean School Reunion, Saturday 30 May”…
Carishader Boys Angus Hugh Smith (2 then 7a Carishader) and Angus Macritchie, North End Carishader. We assume the pram is unoccupied. Not… Continue reading “Carishader Boys”…
Customs of the St Kildans St Kilda is not in the parish of Uig but we can see it from coast around the upper end… Continue reading “Customs of the St Kildans”…
The Uig POs and their Postmarks From Islands Postal History Series, No 3: Lewis, by James A Mackay. Published by the author, 1978. Miavaig The Gaelic… Continue reading “The Uig POs and their Postmarks”…
Bibliography: Salmon and Sea Trout Angling on Lewis and Harris (David SD Jones) New to our bookshop are some numbered and signed copies of a recent limited publication by David SD Jones entitled… Continue reading “Bibliography: Salmon and Sea Trout Angling on Lewis and Harris (David SD Jones)”…
Placenames: Geshader and Strome Key placenames and landmarks around the township of Geshader, the inlet to Little Loch Roag (the Sruth, next to #18),… Continue reading “Placenames: Geshader and Strome”…
Announcements: Museum, Committee and Twitter The Museum will be open from this week, on Wednesday, Thursdays and Fridays, 12-4pm, for the rest of May. Full… Continue reading “Announcements: Museum, Committee and Twitter”…
The Rose Our Rose, painted by Anne McVean – notecards now available to buy from the museum. Many thanks to Anne. Continue reading “The Rose”…
More 19th Century Food: from the Sea From Lewsiana, W Anderson Smith, 1874-86. (See also the previous extract.) Dog fish (Spinax) kept for a short time and… Continue reading “More 19th Century Food: from the Sea”…
Ciorstaidh Mhòr Ciorstaidh Mhòr, Christina Matheson, was born in 1861 in Enaclete, a daughter of William Ruadh and a sister of William… Continue reading “Ciorstaidh Mhòr”…
Community Archaeology Project, Kneep Headland The Valtos Trust is hosting a visit from Tom Dawson of the SCAPE Trust (Scottish Coast Archaeology and the Problem… Continue reading “Community Archaeology Project, Kneep Headland”…
An Incident at Erista Dear Sir, I beg to inform you that I am this moment informed of the old woman’s Hut at Arista being broken into and her chest opened and all her little money stolen from it yesterday… Continue reading “An Incident at Erista”…
TB Macaulay’s Other Form of Life Insurance TB Macaulay (1860-1942), the well-known son of Uig who became President of the Sun Life Assurance Co. in Montreal, and… Continue reading “TB Macaulay’s Other Form of Life Insurance”…
Crowlista Old School %%wppa%% %%photo=392%% %%size=610%% The remains of the old school at Crowlista (with Forsnaval behind). There is a tradition of there… Continue reading “Crowlista Old School”…
AGM 2009 Our AGM went well. The whole committee stood again and was re-elected (John Maciver, Finlay Maciver, Donald Macaulay, Donald Maciver,… Continue reading “AGM 2009”…
19th Century Food From Lewsiana, by W Anderson Smith (J&R Parlane, Paisley 1874-1886). Let us first consider in detail the domestic arrangements in… Continue reading “19th Century Food”…