Old Photograph Butt Of Lewis Lighthouse Outer Hebrides Scotland

Old photograph of Butt of Lewis Lighthouse, Isle of Lewis, Scotland. This is the northernmost point of the Isle of Lewis. It is the location for an unmanned lighthouse built in the 1860s and designed by David Stevenson.



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Old Photograph Of Spinning Outer Hebrides Scotland

Old photograph of a crofter spinning wool outside a cottage on the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Crofters here originally lived in blackhouses made of turf or stone, burned peat for cooking and heating, kept small black native cows and grew mostly oats on small strips of land which were fertilised by manure and seaweed. There was fishing from some of the sheltered bays on the east coast and on the neighbouring islands.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Tirga Mor Isle of Harris

Tour Scotland photograph of Tirga Mor mountain on the Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Uig Isle Of Lewis Video

Tour Scotland Uig Isle Of Lewis video. Uig is located on the western coast of the island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. The name derives from the Norse word Vik meaning 'a bay'. Uig Beach is surrounded by the villages of Crowlista, Timdgarry, Ardroil and Carnish. It is best known as the site where the Lewis Chessmen were found. Before 1831, a local crofter discovered a buried hoard of chess pieces, uncovered following a storm.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Sunset Callanish Standing Stones

Tour Scotland photograph of sunset behind Callanish Standing Stones, Isle of Lewis, Scotland. Local tradition says that giants who lived on the island refused to be converted to Christianity by Saint Kieran and were turned into stone as a punishment. Another local belief says that at sunrise on midsummer morning, the " shining one " walked along the stone avenue, " his arrival heralded by the cuckoo's call. "



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Tour Scotland Isle Of Lewis Slideshow

Tour Scotland Isle Of Lewis Slideshow. The Isle of Lewis, the largest and the most northerly of the islands of the Outer Hebrides, has had an eventful story from prehistoric times through to the present. Evidence of human occupation stretches back to 3000 BC, explicit in the iconic silhouettes of the Standing Stones at Callanish. After the Vikings left in the ninth century, the clans of West Scotland quickly moved in, and Lewis was the site of many feuds between the Morrisons, the MacAulays and the MacLeods. The island operated largely independently until it was purchased by the MacKenzies in 1600 and was finally drawn into Scotland's mainland politics. It was then purchased by Sir James Matheson in 1844, and finally by Lord Leverhulme, in the 20th century.Throughout the centuries the people of Lewis have taken their living from the land and the surrounding seas, and these elements, together with the climate of the island, have determined their history far more than the vicissitudes of its ownership. Bill Lawson excels in charting the history of the people themselves, weaving his way through the centuries with stories drawn from documented sources, oral tradition, Gaelic song, and from his own experiences of many years travelling around the island. Lewis in History and Legend: The West Coast.

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Old Photographs Harbour Stornoway Scotland

Old photograph of fishing boats in the harbour in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland. By the 1850s, Stornoway was fast becoming a town of some commercial importance, based on its reputation of having an excellent harbour. It had a major shipbuilding and repair facility and its harbour also catered for the lucrative shipping trade in Atlantic waters.


Old photograph of the harbour, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Butt of Lewis Lighthouse

Tour Scotland photograph of Butt of Lewis Lighthouse, Isle of Lewis, Scotland. This is the northernmost point of the Isle of Lewis. It is the location for an unmanned lighthouse built in the 1860s and designed by David Stevenson. The Butt of Lewis was originally manned by three Keepers who lived at the Station with their families. The Station's claim to fame is that it was the windiest spot in the United Kingdom.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Dun Carloway Broch

Tour Scotland photograph of Dun Carloway Broch overlooking Loch Roag on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. Dun Carloway was probably built some time in the 1st century BC. A Broch is an Iron Age drystone hollow walled structure of a type found only in Scotland. Brochs include some of the most sophisticated examples of drystone architecture ever created.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Dun Carloway Broch Isle of Lewis Outer Hebrides

Tour Scotland photograph of Dun Carloway Broch, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. A Broch is an Iron Age drystone hollow walled structure of a type found only in Scotland. Brochs include some of the most sophisticated examples of drystone architecture ever created. This is a broch situated in the district of Carloway, on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. Dun Carloway was probably built some time in the 1st century BC.



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Photograph Timsgarry Scotland

Photograph of Timsgarry, Isle of Lewis, Scotland.

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