Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs Of Scalloway Shetland Islands

Tour Scotland travel Blog video of old photographs of Scalloway on the Shetland Islands, Scotland. Scalloway is the largest settlement on the North Atlantic coast of Mainland, the largest island of the Shetland Islands. To the Hanseatic merchants from Bremen and Hamburg, Scalloway was known as Schaldewage, and as a good sheltered harbour on the route to Hillswick. Barbara Tulloch and her daughter Ellen, the last witches to be burned in Shetland, were executed on Gallow Hill, overlooking the village. During World War II, Scalloway was the home base for, and housed for some time the headquarters of The Shetland Bus, part of the Norwegian resistance against the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany. Scalloway Castle was built in 1600 by Patrick Stewart, 2nd Earl of Orkney. The remains of the castle are the most notable feature of the village, located near the quay.

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