When the British herring fishing industry was at it’s height it was reckoned that for every drifter that went to sea about a hundred jobs were provided on shore. We do not know how accurate that statement was but certainly the herring fishing provided a lot of jobs ashore, not least the thousands of herring [...]
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Calum Nicolson (Calum Beag)
AIG AN OBAIR – From an article in Tional April 1994
When I left school in Lemreway in 1934, I got a job as a postman, delivering letters to thirty-two crofts in Lemreway, thirteen crofts in Orinsay and four crofts in Stiomreway. This was a departure from the accepted custom as boys usually took a job [...]
Garyvard Village Shops in the Early 1900’s
In these days when village shops are all but gone it is hard to imagine that even a small village could have half a dozen shops in the early 1900’s
Buth Dhomhnull a Gharraidh (Donald Macleod) 1 Garyvard.
After the first world war Domhnull a Gharaidh set up a shoemaking business in an extension to Seoc a [...]
Stornoway, UNITED KINGDOM