The first lecture of the Society’s 2025/26 winter season is to be held on Monday 27th October 2025 at 7.00pm in the Council Chambers, Sandwick Road. Our guest speaker, is former Consultant Surgeon, Dr Andrew Sim talking about his experiences of working in the Western Isles. Further details are to be found on the illustrated poster.
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