Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
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Miavaig; taken 29 December 2009, 9am. The bay at Miavaig is frozen, as are all the smaller sealochs, including Little Loch Roag, which doesn't happen often.
There is a story of crossing Little Loch Roag on foot, however. James Macnaughton, born 1804 and the son of ...
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
From Mary Beith's Deanamh a' Leighis column in the West Highland Free Press, 3 October 2008. The ballan, a cow's horn used for cupping against the skin to draw out impurities and cure sciatica and rheumatism, was well known in Lewis and continued into living memory. One such ballan used ...
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Thursday, July 16th, 2009
Thursday 23 July 10am-4pm to Bernera Bheag !this week
Thursday 13 August 10am-4pm
Members of the Comann Eachdraidh are invited to join us for one or both of our days out with Seatrek, visiting less-trampled corners of Loch Roag. Destinations are still under discussion and may be subject to change if the ...
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Sunday, June 28th, 2009
"The wanderlust of the Uigeach", from the Stornoway Gazette, 30 December 1949.
Swedish timber houses allocated to West Uig are not to be built there. Owing to the depopulation of the district there is very little chance of finding tenants. When this news was given to the Lewis District Council by ...
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
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From West Over Sea by DDC Pochin Mould, 1953.
To go to Uig is to go to a different country from the rest of the Lews, to go from the moors into the mountains, to the great massif which, with the Forest of Harris, builds the highest ground in the Outer ...
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Sunday, April 5th, 2009
The BBC Alba series A Reir na h-Aimsir, which looks at how weather affects us, was this week in Lewis, looking at how traditional blackhouse architecture has been adapted for a new house in Brenish, amongst other things. There's a trio of well-known Uig bodachs on local weather lore at ...
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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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Saturday, February 7th, 2009
From Sanais, 1988, with some additions.
The first school in the Western Isles was founded shortly after 1610, when the Seaforth Mackenzies gained possession of the island, and in 1680, a report by 'Indweller' says that the Seaforth school had done much good, not only for Lewis but also for the ...
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
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This may be one of the Bernera shielings, just off the main road near Scaliscro road end; the girls, so far unidentified, would therefore be from Bernera. The fellow with the cream is John Macleod 5 Enaclete, and the other is Angus Mackay, Aonghas 'an Uisdean, 1 Carishader, who used ...
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Sunday, September 21st, 2008
From the Highland News, 30 August 1913; we've already had the fundraising concert and the domestic prizes:
The West Uig and Bernera Crofters' Show was held at Lochcroistean School on Wednesday the 20th August, under most favourable auspices, the day being sunny and warm and in every way pleasant for the ...
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
The Highland News, 5 July 1913:
On Wednesday, 2nd inst., the Rev Allan Mackenzie, parish minister of Uig, received a deputation from his congregation who presented him with a handsome new trap and carriage rug. Mr John Matheson Aird said that when the congregation understood how much the minister required a ...
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Highland News, 22 March 1913:
A most enjoyable concert in aid of the Uig and Bernera Cattle Show Fund was held in Valtos Public School on Friday 14th inst., Mr Duncan Maclean Gisla presiding. Despite the wintry weather there was a crowded house, parties having come from the Island of Bernera ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
An account of the life of Murdo Macdonald, Crola, held by Bernera Historical Society (author unknown).
Although Murdo Macdonald was an Uigeach, born and bred, and of Uig parents, he was well known in Scarp and North Harris where many of his relations lived. His paternal grandmother was one of a ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Extracts from the Evidence presented to the Dewar Commission in 1912, regarding medical service in the Highlands and Islands. Among the people interviewed was Dr Victor Alexander Ross, doctor at Garynahine who served Uig from 1900. The commission was chaired by Sir John Dewar MP (he of Dewar's whisky) and included ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
At the end of April 1851, following his tour of the island to assess the number of tenants who were to be helped to emigrate to Canada, the Chamberlain John Munro Mackenzie travelled to Glasgow, in the company of Sir James Matheson and his wife who were proceeding to London, to make the arrangements. ...
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