Old Photograph Sailing Regatta Lerwick Shetland Scotland

Old photograph of a Sailing Regatta by Lerwick, Shetland Islands, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Crofters Carrying Baskets Of Peat To Lerwick Shetland Scotland

Old photograph of three Crofter wives carrying baskets of Peat to Lerwick, Shetland Islands, Scotland. Lerwick is a name with roots in Old Norse and its local descendant, Norn, which was spoken in Shetland until the mid 19th century. The name " Lerwick " means bay of clay. The corresponding Norwegian name is Leirvik, leir meaning clay and vik meaning " bay " or " inlet ". Towns with similar names such as Leirvik exist in south western Norway and on the Faroe Islands

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Old Photograph Crofters Carrying Baskets Of Peat Shetland Scotland

Old photograph of crofters carrying baskets of Peat by a standing stone on the Shetland Islands, Scotland. The islands lie some 80 km to the north east of Orkney and 280 km south east of the Faroe Islands and form part of the division between the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the North Sea to the east.



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Old Photograph Bridgend Church Burra Shetland Scotland

Old photograph of Bridgend Church on West Burra on the Shetland Islands, Scotland. Built in 1865 as a United Presbyterian Church, amalgamated with the United Free Church in 1900 and became part of the Church of Scotland in 1929. Church and attached manse were built together, the church looking very like a cottage apart from the bellcote on the gable. West Burra is one of the Scalloway Islands, a subgroup of the Shetland Islands. West Burra is linked to the Shetland Mainland via Trondra by a series of bridges. This village is near to the bridge to East Burra.



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Old Photograph Islander Quern Stone Shetland Islands Scotland

Old photograph of an islander grinding using a quern stone outside her cottage on the Shetland Islands, Scotland. Quern-stones are stone tools for hand-grinding a wide variety of materials. They were used in pairs. The lower, stationary, stone is called a quern, while the upper mobile stone is called a handstone. They were first used in the Neolithic to grind cereals into flour for making bread.



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