Old Photograph Post Office Lamlash Island Of Arran Scotland

Old photograph of the Post Office and houses in Lamlash on the Island of Arran, Scotland. The basic character of the village is formed by a long building line of two and three storey roughcast or stone houses lining the inland side of the shore road. The Clearances, Scottish Gaelic: Fuadach nan Gàidheal, the expulsion of the Gael, is a period in the 18th and 19th centuries where large forced displacements of the rural population in Scotland took place as part of a process of agricultural change. The clearances led to mass emigration to the sea coast, the Scottish Lowlands and the North American colonies. In general the Clearances on Arran seem to have been less brutal than in many other places in Scotland. The village was the training place for No. 11 Scottish Commando during the early years of the Second World War.



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