Old Photograph Port Stoth Scotland

Old photograph of fishing boats on the beach in Port Stoth, known locally as Stoth and pronounced Stow, which is a sheltered inlet just south east of the Butt of Lewis Lighthouse on Isle of Lewis, Scotland. This is the most northerly landing in the Outer Hebrides. A track leads down to a slipway which runs across the sandy beach. Port Stoth is where all the materials for building the Butt of Lewis lighthouse were landed between 1851 and 1862. A relatively sheltered spot the beach continued to be used to bring supplies to the lighthouse until 1960.



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