Old Photograph Delivering The Mail North Ford North Uist Scotland

Old photograph of a Postman delivering the Mail on horseback, crossing the North Ford between Benbecula and North Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. This was a dangerous undertaking until the causeway across the North Ford was opened in 1960 by the Queen Mother. North Uist is in the centre of the group of Islands known as the Outer Hebrides, or Western Isles. The Hebrides are known as the “long island” as they stretch for 100 miles. The Outer Hebrides consist of the Isles of Lewis, Harris, Scalpay, Beneray, North Uist, Benbecula, South Uist, Eriskay, Barra and Vatersay.



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