Monthly Archives: December 2012

Sandwickhill School Memories books now available

The Sandwickhill School Memories book is now available. If you can make it along to Sandwick School on Wednesday 19th December between 6pm and 8pm, you can collect your copies then. Or alternatively, you can come to Stornoway Library on … Continue reading

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Friday image; Barra and the Bishop’s Isles

We recently came across a beautiful 17th century map of the Uists, Barra and Bishop’s Isles entitled Vistus Insula vulgo Viist in Stornoway Library’s map collection. The map is made up of two pages and the  section shown above shows … Continue reading

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Friday image: The Red Tongues of Point

No, The Red Tongues of Point isn’t a punk band from the Eye Peninsula but rather a reference to an outbreak of Scarlet Fever at Aird School in December 1907.  The school log book for the month notes a series of unfortunate … Continue reading

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North Uist Historical Society get cataloguing!

David spent an the afternoon of the 14 November 2012 with Comann Eachdraidh Uibhist a Tuath (North Uist Historical Society)  to assist them in cataloguing some of their collections.   A training day had already been undertaken earlier in the year and … Continue reading

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