Lochcroistean School, 1958
Teacher Babag Smith Back: 1. John Macdonald Carishader 2. Donald A Macdonald Scaliscro 3. Kenny A Mackay Geshader 7 Geshader…
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JD in the Glen
Travelling east down Glen Valtos from Timsgarry, just past the first quarry on the left, you can see the stones…
Excursions, early 1950s
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Mrs Matheson’s Leaving Do, 1972
From Chrissie Matheson’s leaving party when she retired from Lochcroistean School in December 1972.
Lochcroistean School, 1946-7
How about another school photo. Click to enlarge. Back: Annabella Matheson (Babag) Teacher Murdo Morrison 1A Ungeshader William Faulkner…
Lochcroistean
Norman Macleod, Am Bàrd Bochd, taught at Lochcroistean school from 1936 to 1943, and was a noted bard who composed the following about Lochcroistean and some of the people he knew there. The last four verses constitute his song about the people of Geshader.
Lochcroistean School was in use until the new Uig school opened at Timsgarry in 1972. The building housed the Comann Eachdraidh museum for many years and is now a cafe and visitors’ centre.
Air sgiathan m’ inntinn siùbhlaibh mi
Do ghleann tha àillidh ciùin,
Is tillidh trian de m’ òige rium
Is triallaidh trian de m’aois
An dìomhair smuain thèid mi air chuairt
Le aoibhneas cuimhne blàth
Do ghleann a dh’fhàg a dhealbh nam chrìdh’
Lochroistean anns na Bàigh.
Tha ìocshlaintean s an t-sàmhchair ann
Is slàinte ruit a ghlinn;
Tha tàladh sìor is bàrdachd
Ann am piurbraich bhreac na uillt;
‘S nuair thilleas mais’ is dìomhaireachd
a shamhraidh cheòlmhor eun
Bidh coilich fraoich ri dùrdail
Is ri tùchan air gach sliabh.
Gur tric mi an diugh a’ cuimhneachadh
A song of the people of Geshader, by Norman Macleod, Am Bàrd Bochd, who was headmaster at Lochcroistean from 1936…