Old travel Blog photograph of the Sheriff Court House in Lochmaddy, North Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Continuing as a prison until 1891, it then opened as the North Uist branch of the Scottish Home Industries Association, marketing Home Spun Tweeds, in 1900, and more recently was remodelled as a private house. In a report dated 1616 Lochmaddy was described: " Lochmaldie on the coast of Uist is a rendezvous for pirates " it said. The coves and inlets characterising the area around the village were ideal hiding places for raiding ships stocked with fine goods bound for the clan chiefs of the time, and contraband activity persisted until the modern era. Lochmaddy was an important fishing community before the commercial decline of the herring. During the reign of King Charles it was the site of a Royal Fishing Station.
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