Old Photograph Crofter Making Butter Isle Of Skye Scotland

Old photograph of a crofter making butter in her cottage on the Isle Of Skye, Scotland. History Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.



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Old Photograph Crofter Making Bannocks Isle Of Skye Scotland

Old photograph of a crofter making bannocks in her cottage on the Isle Of Skye, Scotland. Traditional bannocks were heavy, flat cakes of unleavened barley or oatmeal dough formed into a round or oval shape, then cooked on a griddle, or girdle in Scots. In Scotland, before the 19th century, bannocks were cooked on a bannock stane, Scots for stone, a large, flat, rounded piece of sandstone, placed directly onto a fire, then used as a cooking surface. Historically, specially made bannocks were used in rituals marking the changing of the Gaelic seasons: St Bride's bannock for spring, Beltaine bannock for summer, Lughnasadh or Lammas bannock for autumn harvests, and Samhain bannock for winter. Other special Scottish and Gaelic bannocks include beremeal bannock, bride's bannock, cod liver bannock, cryin' bannock, fallaid bannock, fife bannock, Hogmanay bannock, Marymas bannock, mashlum bannock, Michaelmas Bannock, pease bannock, Pitcaithly bannock, salt bannock, sautie bannock, Silverweed bannock, St Columba's bannock, teethin' bannock, and Yetholm bannock. History Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.



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Old Photograph Fisher Lasses Pittenweem Scotland

Old photograph of Fisher Lasses in Pittenweem, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Founded as a fishing village around a probably early Christian religious settlement, it grew along the shoreline from the west where the sheltered beaches were safe places for fishermen to draw their boats up out of the water. Later a breakwater was built, extending out from one of the rocky skerries that jut out south-west into the Firth of Forth like fingers. This allowed boats to rest at anchor rather than being beached, enabling larger vessels to use the port. A new breakwater further to the east was developed over the years into a deep, safe harbour with a covered fish market. As the herring disappeared from local waters and the fishing fleet shrank, this harbour and its attendant facilities became the main harbour for the fishermen of the East Neuk of Fife. History Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.



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Tour Scotland Video Fishing Boat Returning To Harbour Pittenweem East Neuk of Fife

Tour Scotland video of a fishing boat returning to the harbour on ancestry visit to Pittenweem, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Wedding Portree Isle Of Skye Scotland

Old photograph of a wedding in Portree, Isle Of Skye, Scotland.



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