The Postman Retires Calum Macaskill (Calum Iain ‘ic Asgaill) was a postman and lived at Luachair. Latterly he would walk into Morsgail every… Continue reading “The Postman Retires”…
League Champions, 1978 The Uig football team was top of the league in 1978. Iain Morrison 13 Mangersta (Moggan), Roderick Maclean 20 Brenish… Continue reading “League Champions, 1978”…
Easter Opening The Museum will be open over Easter weekend: Friday 10th, Saturday 11th and Monday 13th, from 12 to 4pm. Outside… Continue reading “Easter Opening”…
Side Schools in Uig III: Hamnaway, Luachair and Crola Part III of a series on the small, remote schools in Uig, set up to cater often for single families… Continue reading “Side Schools in Uig III: Hamnaway, Luachair and Crola”…
BBC Alba: A Reir na h-Aimsir The BBC Alba series A Reir na h-Aimsir, which looks at how weather affects us, was this week in Lewis,… Continue reading “BBC Alba: A Reir na h-Aimsir”…
The Seaforth Regimental Toast The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs) have been the regiment of choice (or obligation, sometimes) for Lewismen since 1772. Deoch slàinte… Continue reading “The Seaforth Regimental Toast”…
April Taken this afternoon from Ganstotl on Loch Roag (back of Geshader), looking to Eilean Garbh and Cliatasaigh (left), with Bernera… Continue reading “April”…
Mac an t-Srònaich: Not as Bad as All That James Shaw Grant, in one of his many books about the folk and tales of the Islands, reckoned that the… Continue reading “Mac an t-Srònaich: Not as Bad as All That”…
The Uig Piper in Washington Piper Lorne Cousin with Sir Sean Connery at the US Library of Congress. Lorne is an Uigeach, grandson to Murdo… Continue reading “The Uig Piper in Washington”…
DNA Clues to Irish Invasion From the BBC website: Scientific evidence of an ancient invasion of Scotland from Ireland may have been uncovered by DNA… Continue reading “DNA Clues to Irish Invasion”…
Side Schools in Uig II: Morsgail, Scaliscro and Linshader More about Uig side schools, the small schools provided for a minimum of three pupils in remote parts. From research… Continue reading “Side Schools in Uig II: Morsgail, Scaliscro and Linshader”…
The Gamekeeper’s Family New to us, a fine collection of pictures from the family of Roderick Mackenzie Sr, gamekeeper at Uig Lodge. Continue reading “The Gamekeeper’s Family”…
Enterprise of Four Uigeachs Stornoway Gazette, 30 December 1949. It is many years since there was a fishing boat of any size in Uig… Continue reading “Enterprise of Four Uigeachs”…
British Summer Time and Census Night The clocks went forward this morning. In case you missed them previously, we have two short pieces here on the… Continue reading “British Summer Time and Census Night”…
William Dearg’s Medals William Matheson (Uilleam Dearg) was born to 2 Geshader in 1877, the youngest son of William Ruadh. As a young… Continue reading “William Dearg’s Medals”…
Open Day at Uig School This week Uig School held an Open Day to exhibit a wide range of work the pupils had been doing… Continue reading “Open Day at Uig School”…
Seaforth Goes After his Deserters From the appendices of the Historical Record of the 72nd Highlanders, Vol. 2. I’m not aware of a particular Uig… Continue reading “Seaforth Goes After his Deserters”…
Peggy Maclennan and Kenneth Matheson Peggy Maclennan was born in 1888 to 24 Valtos; she married Donald Maclennan, 15 Kneep, in 1920 in Glasgow (parents… Continue reading “Peggy Maclennan and Kenneth Matheson”…
Side Schools in Uig I: Ardbheag From research undertaken by Maggie Smith for Hebridean Connections and the Stornoway Gazette. See also Part II and Part III.… Continue reading “Side Schools in Uig I: Ardbheag”…