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Sy 1964

Jul 7, 2015 | Features

See if you can recognise anyone in this 13 minute colour film of Stornoway taken in 1964 by a visitor during Carnival Week Look out for some of of our public lecture films too on our You Tube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2b-DhNUD2g

© Ken Holgate. Used with Permission.

Features

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  • 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
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  • 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

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