Old photograph of church and tower at Peinsoraig overlooking Uig Bay, Isle Of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. A small tower, or folly, built around 1840 by the then landlord Captain Fraser can be seen in the centre of the photograph. At that time, local crofters would walk to the tower to pay their rents to Fraser's factor. The Uig Free Church, built in 1847, is seen in the foreground. Apparently, an elder of the Free Church brought one of the last charges of witchcraft against a mother and her daughters in 1880. The charge came to nothing, and all survived. The village of Uig is well known as a fishing port. There was a pier there by 1840, and in 1894 it was greatly extended at a cost of £9000. King Edward Vll and Queen Alexandra officially opened the new pier on 1 September 1902. In earlier years, steamers plying between Glasgow and Stornoway, a town on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides, made regular stops in Uig, and in 1964 Caledonian MacBrayne started its regular sailings to the Isle of Harris and North Uist, which still continue today.
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