The next instalment in our winter series of lectures is to be held on Monday 26th February 2024 at 7 pm in the Council Chambers, Sandwick Rd. Our guest speaker is Seonaid Macdonald, archivist at Museum & Tasglann nan Eilean and the theme of her talk is ‘Perceptions of Leverhulme from the Archive’. Doors open at 6.30 pm. All welcome. Donations taken at the door.
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