Old Photograph Garrabost Scotland

Old photograph of crofters outside their cottage in Garrabost on the Island of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. A hamlet in the Point, An Rubha, peninsula isthmus on the east coast. The village is now one of the largest in Point, comprising Upper and Lower Garrabost, and Claypark.

Angus Mòr MacAskill, born 1825, was a Scottish born Canadian giant. The 1981 Guinness Book of World Records posits Angus as the tallest non pathological giant in recorded history 7 feet 9 inches tall, as well as being the man with the largest chest measurements of any non obese man of 80 inches.



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