Tour Scotland Photograph Road Building Isle Of Rum

Tour Scotland photograph of an abandoned piece of road building machinery on Isle of Rum, Scotland. Rum is one of the Small Isles of the Inner Hebrides, in the district of Lochaber. Donald Maclean, Minister of the Parish of Small Isles, wrote in The New Statistical Account, that " in 1826 all the inhabitants of the Island of Rum, amounting at least to 400 Scots, found it necessary to leave their native land, and to seek for new abodes in the distant winds of our colonies in America. Of all the old residents, only one family remained upon the Island. The old and the young, the feeble and the strong, were all united in this general emigration, the former to find tombs in a foreign land, and the latter to encounter toils, privations, and dangers, to become familiar with customs, and to acquire that to which they had been entire strangers. "



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Tour Scotland Photograph Totem Pole Kinloch Isle Of Rum

Tour Scotland photograph of a Totem Pole in Kinloch village on the Isle of Rum, Scotland. This totem pole took pride of place on the lawn outside Kinloch Castle during a music festival. Rum, is one of the Small Isles of the Inner Hebrides, in the district of Lochaber. For much of the 20th century the name became Rhum, a spelling invented by the former owner, Sir George Bullough, because he did not relish the idea of having the title the " Laird of Rum ".



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Tour Scotland Photograph Orval Isle of Rum

Tour Scotland photograph of the rounded hills at Orval, Isle of Rum, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Hallival and Askival Isle Of Rum

Tour Scotland photograph of Hallival and Askival, Isle of Rum, Scotland. Askival is the highest mountain on the island of Rum, located three miles south of the village of Kinloch. It is part of the Rùm Cuillin, a rocky range of hills in the southern end of Rùm.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Mausoleum at Harris Isle of Rum

Tour Scotland photograph of a Mausoleum at Harris, Isle of Rum, Scotland. Contains Tombs of: John Bullough of Rhum and Merrerinie, born 1839 died 1891; Sir George Bullough, Baronet of Rhum, died July 26 1939; Monica Lily wife of Sir George Bullough of Rhum. Born April 27, 1869 died May 22nd 1967. John Bullough, father of George, was first buried in mausoleum in hillside close to temple. Mausoleum at Harris with the Rumm Cullin behind.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Stones Isle Of Rum

Tour Scotland photograph of stones on the Isle Of Rum, Scotland. Rum is one of the Small Isles of the Inner Hebrides, in the district of Lochaber, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Cottage Harris Isle of Rum

Tour Scotland photograph of a cottage at Harris, Isle of Rum, Scotland. In 1826 the island of Rum was cleared of its population to make way for a single sheep farm. Three hundred of the inhabitants had their passage paid in overcrowded ships to Nova Scotia, Canada in July 1826, with the remainder following on the St Lawrence, along with 150 islanders from Muck, in 1828. People whose ancestors had lived there for millennia were forced to emigrate. An eyewitness said that he would never forget to his dying day how " the wild outcries of the men and heart breaking wails of the women and children filled all the air between the mountain shores ".



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