The video of our last public lecture is now available to view on our YouTube channel. Iain Macleod presented a talk on ‘Lews Castle – A Restoration Story’.
Link at: https://youtu.be/E9UOtrhKDZo
Features
- Old Manor revisited
- Battery ploys
- The Goody – Shops
- Captain Benjamin Oliver
- Iolaire Disaster
- Work of the herring girls
- The Early Medical Men of Lewis 1700-1918
- Endurance Bible
- The first Lewisman in the Antarctic
- Emigration from Stornoway
- Kenneth Morison
- Lodge Fortrose
- John Norrie Anderson
- Colonel Colin Mackenzie
- Female Industrial School – 1848
- Seaforth Lodge in 1719
- The Archaeology of Stornoway
- The Old Fishmart
- A Bit of a Mystery Arnish Lighthouse
- Alexander Mackenzie
- Churches of Stornoway
- History of the Lews Castle
- The Herring Industry
- The Nicolson Institute
- Lewis War Memorial
- Burgh of Stornoway
- Stornoway Town Council
- Stornoway Town Hall
- The Christie of Christie’s Quay
- Fishy Tales
- Memories of Foresters House
- The Barbers of Old SY
- The Incorporated Trades Society of Stornoway