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Pentland Road: February 2015
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Other local history websites. Saturday, 28 February 2015. Her disputes with crofters in Lochs are well recorded in the Napier Report of 1883. Female Industrial School, Scotland Street / Keith Street, Stornoway. Links to this post. We remember the victims of both tragedies. Links to this post. Bonnie Prince Charlie at Arnish. Bonnie Prince Charlie's cairn at Arnish, south of Stornoway. The below image of the house was taken in the 1950s,. Links to this post. Goat Island is now connected to mainland Lewis ...
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Pentland Road: April 2015
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Other local history websites. Saturday, 4 April 2015. This is an amended repost of an original entry, which I made on 16 October 2013. Now live on with a shadow over them. Among the Allied casualties were (at least) twelve men from the Isle of Lewis. This post is a salute to the Fallen of Gallipoli, particularly to the twelve men from Lewis, whom I list below. Son of Donald and Jessie Campbell. Last address in Lewis: 12 Aird, Point. Service unit: Royal Garrison Artillery, 4th Highland Battery. Date of de...
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Pentland Road: Goat Island
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Other local history websites. Saturday, 28 February 2015. This plaque was placed on Goat Island in 2007. The text, now nearly illegible, reads:. In 1654, during the occupation of Stornoway by Cromwellian forces, Goat Island was used as a fort to protect the harbour from attack. The main armoury comprising two great guns and four sliding pieces was taken from the old Stornoway Castle. RCAHMS suggests that there was a fort or citadel in the Point Street area of Stornoway. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Pentland Road: August 2014
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Other local history websites. Friday, 1 August 2014. Tipperton, South Uist. During my recent visit to South Uist, I came across a house called Tipperton (Tobar Tiobairt), near the Polochar Inn on the extreme southwestern point of the island. Searching the Internet revealed the Gaelic name, and the story of human remains found in a crouching position. From Struileag. His wife Margaret followed him out of this world in 1996, aged 93. The Hallan Cemetery website. Links to this post. My local history sites.
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Pentland Road: Mission Statement
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Other local history websites. Saturday, 27 November 2010. Pentland Road is the blog where my stories, related to local history in the Isle of Lewis, will be posted. My work, as displayed in the Pentland Road blog and elsewhere in my Internet output, is dedicated to the memory of the 1,300 men from the Isle of Lewis lost in the Great War of 1914-1919. 28 November 2010 at 12:24. You are doing wonderful work in ensuring that the sacrifice of these men is recorded and given due recognition. This blog will fe...
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Faces from the Lewis War Memorial: How it all started
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Faces from the Lewis War Memorial. A listing of casualties from the First World War from the Isle of Lewis. How it all started. How it all started. The below article describes how the men from Lewis obediently followed the call to arms from their Government, as described in the below article, transcribed by Comann Eachdraidh Uig. The Highland News, Saturday 8 August, 1914. 8220;And they left their nets”. The mobilisation of the Militias and Territorials, after the Naval Reservists, has practically denude...
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Faces from the Lewis War Memorial: Broker / Brocair
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Faces from the Lewis War Memorial. A listing of casualties from the First World War from the Isle of Lewis. How it all started. Deckhand ALEXANDER JOHN MACLEOD. Last known address in Lewis: 3 Broker. Son of Murdo and Mary Macleod. Service unit: Royal Naval Reserve. Date of death: 1 January 1919. Drowned in sinking of HMY Iolaire. Interred: Aignish / Eye Cemetery, grave A. 4. 23. Village memorial: Point, Garrabost. Lewis War Memorial: Parish of Stornoway, Point division, panel 2. Service unit: Black Watch.
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Pentland Road: The Iolaire story
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Other local history websites. Thursday, 1 January 2015. This is the full story, as told on this blog in five parts between 6pm on December 31st and 9am on January 1st. The mailsteamer for Stornoway, the Sheila. Is alongside at Kyle, but it very rapidly becomes clear that she has nowhere near enough space to accommodate the hundreds that want to go home to Lewis and Harris. So, a cable is sent to the naval base at Stornoway, and Rear Admiral Boyle sends HMY Iolaire. The former private steamyacht Amalthea.
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Pentland Road: Norge and Titanic
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Other local history websites. Saturday, 28 February 2015. We remember the victims of both tragedies. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Pentland Road is a single-track road on Lewis that runs between Stornoway and the villages of Breasclete and Carloway. It is a historical roadway. My local history sites. Berneray to Vatersay Tribute (WW1 / WW2). Faces from the Lewis War Memorial (WW1). Harris Memorial (WW1 / WW2). War Memorials in Lewis. Barvas and Brue Historical Society. View my complete profile.
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Pentland Road: December 2014
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Other local history websites. Wednesday, 31 December 2014. 96 years ago tonight - 23:59. The year 1918 is drawing to a close and Big Ben in London is about to start striking the midnight hour. Six hundred miles to the north, HMY Iolaire. Milaid, on the rocky cliffs near Kebock Head; Rona; Tiumpan Head on the eastern extremity of the Point Peninsula; and Arnish, near the entrance to Stornoway Harbour. The clock strikes midnight. It is 1919. Links to this post. 96 years ago tonight. Then switch to the Shei...