Old Photograph Crofters Harvesting Shetland Islands Scotland

Old photograph of crofters harvesting by a cottage on the Shetland Islands, Scotland. After the end of the war, the thousands of troops that had been stationed in Shetland quickly left. Despite state sponsored programmes of house building and subsidies for agriculture and fishing, many Shetlanders could not make a living and emigration resumed, continuing through the 1950s and 1960s; by 1971, the population had dropped to just 17,325. In 1861, it had been 31,670.



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