Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
Old Photograph Durine Scotland
Old photograph of crofters cottages in Durine by Durness, Northern Sutherland, Scotland. Sutherland is perhaps best known for its saddest memory: the Highland Clearances, the forceful eviction of people from their homes in the 18th century by the landowners to make way for large sheep farms. Sutherland suffered more than most parts of the Highlands, scattering people far and wide across the globe. The clearances also saw many forced to move from their inland homes to live along the coast scraping a life with crofting and fishing. It was the villages produced by this policy that formed the last Gaelic speaking communities to be found on the east coast of Scotland.
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