Archive for the ‘fishing’ Category
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
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Many thanks to Donald J Macleod of Enaclete and Bridge of Don for his research into the fishing boats of Uig. He adds that these boats used lines and not trawls to catch white fish. It was the end of March and beginning of April that was known as the ...
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Friday, February 5th, 2010
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The Uilleam Dubh on the pier at Hushinish; photo by John J Maclennan.
This little story revealed itself in stages: thanks to John J Maclennan especially, and to Finlay Maciver, Shonnie Buchanan and Calum Maclennan Govig for piecing it together. The Uilleam Dubh has been a Scarp boat for many years, ...
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
In December 1900, the lighthouse on Eilean Mor in the Flannan Isles, which had only been lit for the first time a year previously, was discovered deserted by its three keepers; their dinner table had been set with cold meat, pickles and potatoes, and a chair was overturned in an obvious urgent ...
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
From The Times, 2 March 1858 (with a geographical infidelity)
Enormous Shoal Of Dogfish. - From all quarters we are furnished with information regarding the appearance of a prodigious shoal of dogfish along the whole north-east coast of Scotland, and as far as to the westward of the Lewis. ...
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Saturday, December 5th, 2009
Winter was always a difficult time for the inhabitants of St Kilda, but the winter of 1876-77 was unusual. From the Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, 1878:
When the factor, Mr M'Kenzie, with MacLeod's vessel, did not put in an appearance in autumn last year [1876], as ...
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Sunday, March 29th, 2009
Stornoway Gazette, 30 December 1949.
It is many years since there was a fishing boat of any size in Uig but four Uigeachs arrived in Stornoway on Tuesday of last week with a 45-foot motor-boat which they have purchased in Inverness.
The boat will take her new name from the initials of ...
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Sunday, March 1st, 2009
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From Uig, A Hebridean Parish, 1960. The photo of Brenish is by Sam Forrest, taken on land court business in 1965. More of his pictures in the gallery.
Brenish has a south-westerly aspect whilst Islivig faces north-west; in both the elevation of the crofts decreases seawards from about 125 ...
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
This report from Hansard, the official report of debates in the House of Commons, dates from December 1893 and refers to illegal steam trawling in Loch Roag and, at least nominal, interest in defending the rights of local fishermen, preferably without requiring them to take three days out to testify ...
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
From Uig, A Hebridean Parish, by HA Moisley and the Geographical Field Group, 1960.
The crofting population of Uig started the second half of the nineteenth century with far less land than had been occupied by their forebears fifty years before, and, although famine, clearance and emigration had slightly reduced the ...
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
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This article was written by Elly Welch and first appeared in Events. Thanks to Elly for permission to reprint and for the photo of John Macaulay with the Rose. More pictures of the boat (before and during) can be found in the gallery.
Wandering along Valtos harbour a year ago ...
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
An further extract from the unpublished memoirs of Rev Col AJ Mackenzie, born Kinlochresort in 1887. Here he tells of how the family came to be at Kinlochresort, and also how they left it for the gamekeeper's house at Uig Lodge. His account of the pleasures of Traigh Uig is ...
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
The Rose was built c1905 by John Macaulay, boatbuilder, of 19 Brenish. She was first taken to Kneep, then Reef, and latterly belonged to a consortium of Valtos men. In 2007 she was gifted to the Comann Eachdraidh, and we commissioned another John Macaulay, boatbuilder, from Harris, to restore her ...
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
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An account, from the Gaelic, by Christina MacDonald, 25 Crowlista, of her memories of packing the barrels at the herring industry. The picture above is of unidentified Lewis girls at the herring in an unknown port.
See the original Gaelic version here.
When you went to the herring for the first time, ...
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