Fresh notes and old stories from Uig Historical Society, Isle of Lewis
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
Frederick Douglass
Stornoway, UNITED KINGDOM13 °C
events
Uig Museum & the Tearoom open Monday to Saturday, 12-5pm.
20 Aug 10 Buffet/Ceilidh Night at Uig Community Centre withthe Woodlands Ceilidh Band. 7.30pm; £15/£6. All welcome. POSTPONED.
31 Aug 10 Illustrated Talk and Tea with archaeologists from Durham University, on the Uig Landscape Project. Uig Hall, 7.30pm, free. POSTPONED.
20 Aug 10 Buffet/Ceilidh Night at Uig Community Centre withthe Woodlands Ceilidh Band. 7.30pm; £15/£6. All welcome. POSTPONED.
31 Aug 10 Illustrated Talk and Tea with archaeologists from Durham University, on the Uig Landscape Project. Uig Hall, 7.30pm, free. POSTPONED.
Gaelic Wisdom
Dè am fèum a tha sa phìob mur cluichear oirre?
What’s the good of the pipe if it’s not played on?
Fresh Notes
Fresh Comments
John Maclean on Uig School, mid 1970s:
No4 could be Iain Macleod(Bob) from Crowlista , No 7 is Norman MacRitchie(T...Lawrie Dickson on audio: Working at RAF Aird Uig:
I was stationed at RAF Aird Uig from early February 1958 until October 1958...John Macdonald on audio: Working at RAF Aird Uig:
I'd be fascinated to read Mr Smith's father's notes on life at "The Camp". ...
Notes by Place
aird
aird uig
ardbheag
ardroil
arnol
australia
back
bailenacille
bailenicol
balnicol
barra
bernera
brenish
callanish
canada
capadal
capidal
carishader
carloway
carnish
cliff
crola
crowlista
earshader
edinburgh
enaclete
erista
flannans
ganstotl
garynahine
geshader
gisla
glasgow
glenvaltos
glenvaltos bailenacille
hamnaway
harris
iceland
inverness
ireland
islivig
kinchusil
kinlochresort
kinlochroag
kinresort
kneep
langabhat
linshader
lochcroistean
lochroag
lochs
luachair
mangersta
mealista
mealisval
miavaig
moors
morsgail
morsgal
ness
nz
orkney
pabbay
pairc
pennydonald
point
raf aird uig
reef
reithmir
scaliscro
scarp
sheilings
shielings
skye
stkilda
stornoway
strome
suainebhal
tealasbhaigh
timsgarry
tolsta
traighnaberie
traighuig
uigen
uiglodge
ungeshader
usa
vacsay
valtos
vuia
Notes by subject
Archaeology Archive photos Audio Bibliography CEU Church Crofting Education Emigration Entertainments Featured Notes Fishing Gàidhlig Genealogy Health & Food History Land Issues Life in Uig Military & Police Mills News & Events Old Soldiers People Placenames Sporting Estates Tales & Traditions Transport Video Vikings Wool & Weaving WWI WWII
