Sunday, October 25th, 2009
For next year, Uig Museum will be mounting a display of wedding and christening objects, and we're very keen to collect any items, stories, photographs and archives connected with these events in Uig over the years. Naturally we don't need to take ownership of them, unless you'd like to ...
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
To mark the expectation that our new Enaclete bypass will opening soon (surely), here's a further extract from the unpublished memoirs of Rev Col AJ Mackenzie, who was born at Kinresort in 1887, son of the gamekeeper Roderick Mackenzie. The family moved in to the gamekeeper's house at Uig Lodge ...
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Another bit from DDC Pochin Mould's West Over Sea, published in 1953; at the time even quite substantial and central townships like Geshader were just getting their proper roads.
Crossing the moor between Loch Raonasgail and the yellow road by the sea at Uig, I had plenty of opportunity to consider ...
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
More about Uig side schools, the small schools provided for a minimum of three pupils in remote parts. From research undertaken by Maggie Smith for Hebridean Connections and the Stornoway Gazette; see also Part I and Part III.
Lily Macdonald (Lilidh Mhorsgail), born 1918, whose father Finlay Ferguson worked as under-keeper ...
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
From research undertaken by Maggie Smith for Hebridean Connections and the Stornoway Gazette. See also Part II and Part III.
After the Education Act of 1872, children throughout the country were entitled to an education, and a side school could be provided in remote districts where there were at least three ...
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
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Further to the Daily Express cartoon about the alien cause of the disappearing loch at Morsgail, here's a summary of the international coverage, from the Stornoway Gazette, 29 Dec 1959.
Few events in Lewis in recent years have aroused such worldwide interest as the "Morsgail Meteorite". In addition to the ...
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
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Duncan Macdonald, Gisla, was the postman on the Kinlochresort route and his daily walk took him four miles over the moors to the remote village. One day in 1959, he noticed that a loch was missing: the water was simply gone. Much debate ensued over the reason for this but ...
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
This account of the gathering of the sheep into the Gisla fank for the clipping was written by David Henderson and first published in the Scots Magazine in August 1995. These large-scale community gatherings are now, sadly, a thing of the past. There are more pictures in the gallery, and ...
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Please join us on Saturday 9 August for an (unguided) walk to the Morsgail Beehives (NB131199) under Sgalabhal. A little information here.
Time and weather permitting, we may take in other scant remains of shielings in the area and look for the disappearing loch.
Meet at 11am at Morsgail road end and we ...
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
from Donald John Macleod, Enaclete and Aberdeen
We look upon the Vikings as seafaring rovers who spent their lives raiding and plundering. However, it is evident from place names that some Vikings settled in Uig where they cultivated the land and tended their sheep and cattle. The following Uig placenames are ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Morsgail Lodge was built about 1850 by Sir James Matheson, purportedly for his wife, Mary Ann Perceval, who chose the spot herself. From 1849 Sir James erected wire fencing around a 15,000 acre tract to form the first deer forest in the Outer Hebrides. He was not a ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
by David SD Jones, February 2008.
An illustrated history of the sporting estates, including Morsgail, Scaliscro, Grimersta, Uig & Hamnaway, Garynahine, Eishken, Barvas, Galson and others. Information from estate records and game books, detail of tenants and development programmes, and many photographs previously unknown to the Comann Eachdraidh, coming as they ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Stornoway Gazette
Friday, 16 January 1920
WEST UIG MAIL SERVICE
At a meeting held in Crowlista Public School, Miavaig, Lewis, on Tuesday, 30th December 1919 presided over by Col. Lindsay, Morsgail Lodge,Lord Leverhulme's representative here, and attended by representatives from all the townships of West Uig, it was resolved to lay before the ...
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