Friday, January 1st, 2010
Stornoway Gazette, 21 Jan 1944
The pressmen get their snaps - Lewisfolk provide a little colour
American press photographers visited the vicinity of St Pauls on Hogmanay to pick up a few colourful pictures of New Year celebrations in London.
A group of Lewisfolk gave them their best 'shots' of the evening when ...
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Sunday, September 20th, 2009
The following comes from the Spring 1987 edition of Sanais, the Comann Eachdraidh's quarterly publication under the editorship of Anna Mackinnon. There are many tales about the Old Soldiers of Uig and this is another about the doughty Calum Olach of Valtos, serving with the Seaforth Highlanders as one of ...
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Friday, September 11th, 2009
Pictures also viewable here if the slideshow doesn't work for you.
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Thanks to Iain Watson for these pictures and his memories of scout camps in Uig.
The pictures were all collected by Don Laing, who used to be a Scout Leader in Stornoway for many years from the early 60's until he ...
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
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Chrissie Matheson 39 Cliff and Jessie Macdonald 24 Valtos.
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Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
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Back 1. Donald John Smith
2. Murdanie Macdonald
3. John Buchanan
4. Ray Goodge
5. DM Buchanan
Front 6. Mary Peggy Mackay
7. Seonag Matheson
8. Chrissie Smith
9. Chirsty Bell Mackay
10. Annie Mackay
11. Marlene Morrison Schoolhouse
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Friday, July 17th, 2009
Another item from the endlessly entertaining Lewsiana, by W Anderson Smith (1874/1886).
From the fact that every crofter owns a few sheep, wool is naturally the first and most important article in use [in clothing]. This is often torn from the animal, Shetland fashion, in place of being clipped. More wretched ...
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Monday, June 22nd, 2009
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Teacher: Sophie Macsween (Macleod). Thanks to Mary Peggy Mackay for putting the names to the faces.
Back 1. John Angus Mackay 7 Reef
2. Dan Buchanan 7 Valtos
3. DA Morrison 13 Reef
4. Calum Ian Buchanan 8 Valtos
5. Archie Macdonald, FP Manse
Middle 6. John Andrew Buchanan 7 Valtos
7. Donald C Morrison 32 Valtos
8. ...
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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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Thursday, May 21st, 2009
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Photo taken by Aneas Maclean, nephew of Mrs Jessie Macdonald 24 Valtos, while on student placement. We'll expect the gaps to be filled in promptly: if not, I'll be waylaying the others.
Teachers: Mrs Alexina Macleod, Shawbost
Mr Donald John Macleod (Inky), Carloway
Front Row: 1. Calum Macdonald (Titch) 22 Valtos
2. Donella Matheson ...
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
New to our bookshop are some numbered and signed copies of a recent limited publication by David SD Jones entitled Salmon and Sea Trout Angling on Lewis and Harris, Past and Present. The book looks at the fish, principle rivers, fishing hotels, associations, notable anglers and recorded catches throughout the ...
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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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Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
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Peggy Maclennan was born in 1888 to 24 Valtos; she married Donald Maclennan, 15 Kneep, in 1920 in Glasgow (parents of Kenny, Joan, Christina, Donald F and John, who died in infancy). Her cousin Kenneth Matheson belonged to 6 Aird.
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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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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
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This handsome family is, as far as I know, unidentified; the picture comes to us from 17 Valtos.
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Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
From Rev William Matheson's "History of the Families of Lewis - Smith" published under the pseudonym Mac Gille Chaluim in the Stornoway Gazette in the late 1950s. See a further story of Calum Olach here.
There was a noted family of Smiths of Valtos, Uig, for whom it has been claimed ...
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