Tag Archives: St Kilda

Friday photo: A view of Lochmaddy

Lochmaddy, situated on the beautiful island of North Uist, is many a tourists first experience of the Western Isles when travelling over from Skye. Many of the postcards in the collection were actually sent rather than just being collectable momentos … Continue reading

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Friday photo; St Kilda Parliament

Sunday marks the end of the first annual Parliament Week, a new initiative which aims to raise awareness of Parliament and encourage engagement with the UK’s democratic systems and its institutions. The above photograph shows the famous St Kilda parliament … Continue reading

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St Kilda and Mingulay school log books in the news!

This week saw the formal launch online of the school log books for the abandoned islands of Mingulay and St Kilda.  Several newspapers, including the Scotsman, Herald, Sunday Express and other news websites such as the BBC have picked up … Continue reading

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Friday photo; Hougharry

Tonight Alasdair MacEachan will be giving a talk for the Islands Book Trust entitled ’80 Degrees North via St Kilda, the Faroes and Jan Mayen’ in the Claddach Kirkibost centre from 8pm, which should be very interesting.  Earlier in the week North Uist … Continue reading

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Friday photo; St Kilda

Above is a photo of women on St Kilda taken in August 1909.  From left to right we have Mrs Donald Gillies, Mrs Macdonald, Mary Macdonald, Mary Macqueen, widow Mackinnon and Mrs Neil Ferguson.  If you are interested in St … Continue reading

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Destination St Kilda – a magic lantern presentation

On Saturday 4 September 2010 I attended a fantastic event hosted by the Islands Book Trust as part of the Faclan Book Festival at An Lanntair in Stornoway.  Mark Butterworth presented a magic lantern slide show of his images of a … Continue reading

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