Old Photographs Of Yell Shetland Islands Scotland

Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Yell, one of the North Isles of the Shetland Islands. Settlements on Yell tend to be coastal and include Burravoe, home to the Old Haa Museum, Mid Yell, Cullivoe and Gloup, as well as Ulsta, Gutcher, Aywick, West Yell, Sellafirth, Copister, Camb, Otterswick, and West Sandwick. Ulsta is a village in the South West of the island of Yell. The car ferry to Toft on Mainland, Shetland leaves from here. Ollaberry mostly lies around the shore of Yell Sound, looking out to sea. Historically it was a couple of very small hamlets, defined by the names Lower Ollaberry and Upper Ollaberry. The upper was a few crofts and cottages that were cleared in the 19th century. In Burravoe the most notable building is the Old Haa Museum which dates from 1637 and is the oldest house on Yell. On 19 January 1942, a Catalina aeroplane crashed on the hill above Burravoe. Seven of her ten passengers were killed. The Wick of Gossabrough lies between the northern extremity of Gossabrough Ness and the Saddle of Swarister. The hamlet is accessed via the B9081 road. The Loch of Hudon lies just to the south west. The remains of rectangular structures found in the area indicate that this was a settlement inhabited by early Norse peoples. In 1924, the " White Lady ", known locally as the " Widden Wife ", was shipwrecked in the vicinity. St Colman's Episcopal Episcopal Church in Burravoe was designed by R. Speir and was built with the finest materials. It has a rectangular nave with small external buttresses and an apsidal chancel, and there is a little spire over a ventilator at the east end of the nave. @tourscotland All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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