Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Bressay a populated island due south of Whalsay, west of Noss, and north of Mousa. it is the fifth largest island of the Shetland Islands. The Giant's Legs, of Bressay are half formed sea stacks. Projecting out from the Bard Head at the Southernmost tip of Bressay Island. The lighthouse on the Island of Bressay was one of four lighthouses built in Shetland between 1854 and 1858 which were designed by brothers David Stevenson and Thomas Stevenson. David Stevenson initially maintained that building a lighthouse in Shetland waters was impossible, too dangerous and too expensive, and that any ship's captain who took this route was mad. The population is around 360 people, concentrated in the middle of the west coast, around Glebe and Fullaburn. The island is made up of Old Red Sandstone with some basaltic intrusions. Bressay was quarried extensively for building materials, used all over Shetland, especially in nearby Lerwick. There are a number of sea caves and arches.
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