Old Photographs St Kilda Scotland
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ม.ค. 2016
- Old photographs of St Kilda, Scotland. Often described as the islands at the edge of the world, the archipelago of St Kilda is located 41 miles west of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides. Now uninhabited, St Kilda was home to a community who survived the inhospitable conditions here for thousands of years before the final 36 people were evacuated in 1930. The islands were historically part of the domain of the MacLeods of Harris whose steward was responsible for the collection of rents in kind and other duties. Early in World War I the Royal Navy erected a signal station on Hirta and daily communications with the mainland were established for the first time in St Kilda's history. In a belated response, a German submarine arrived in Village Bay on the morning of 15 May 1918 and after issuing a warning, started shelling the island. Seventy two shells in all were fired and the wireless station was destroyed. The manse, church and jetty storehouse were also damaged but there was no loss of life. After World War One most of the young men left the island and the population fell from 73 in 1920 to 37 in 1928. After the death of four men from influenza in 1926, and a succession of crop failures in the 1920s, the last straw came with the death from appendicitis of a young woman, Mary Gillies, in January 1930. On 29 August 1930. On 29 August 1930, the last 36 inhabitants were evacuated to Morvern on the Scottish mainland at their own request.Now uninhabited, St Kilda was home to a community who survived the inhospitable conditions here for thousands of years before the final 36 people were evacuated in 1930.
90 years to the day since the remaining inhabitants were evacuated.
Had the great pleasure of visiting St Kilda 7 times from 1984 until 1996...a truly awesome place.
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I love seeing pictures of where my family came from.
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Does it mean you would move back . It would be nice
Tough as nails !
Great pictures and historical context. Thank you.
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There is a St Kilda in Melbourne Victoria, a team's name too.
I never knew that was a historical reference, or based on an original place in Scotland. Amazing!
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Solo puedo sentir respeto y reverencia por estas personas que dejaron su tierra, por esas vidas que ya no están. Gracias por compartir este hermoso y triste documento.
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Thanks for posting these. Many I had not seen before.
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Absolutely amazed at the bare feet ! St Kilda does not seem to be the climate or environment for bare feet !
thank you for your comment, yes, the islanders lived in poverty
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@@davidhealy7171 reducing swelling hasn't happened for the old lady whose feet look like balloons. I would love to know everything about their health status.
I do not know why; I FEEL SOMEWHAT UNEASY BEFORE THESE PICTURES. THE SAME PICTures were taken all over the world of people who seemed weird, bizarre,....etc...the selknam indians for instance; the purpose of the photographer seems to enhance the extremely "picturesque" aspect of people who lived in extreme poverty.
At the same time, I am impressed with these courageous people and their beautiful faces and expressions; they looked happy;A very poignant set of photographs
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Many of the children and women (even the elderly) were in bare feet. Rugged up and obviously very cold, with bare feet. Most of the grown men wore shoes however.
Yes, that is surprising unless it were a sunny day. They could easily have put a bit of cloth they wove over feet if they wanted to
A wedge tomb at 1.38, that's going back to prehistoric times. You'd wonder what possessed them to travel out that far an settle on the Island in the first place.
yes it was amazing
@@tourscotland do they do overnight trips to the island. Or is it completely out of bounds?
@@turnpiketumbler8938 you can take a day trip there or a camping trip.
You think 🤔 of your comfort zone, our ancestors did everything they needed because the are from the picts who were very artistic & great in battle they were called the painted people by the Romans
@@lesterjohnston8888 A wedge tomb is a prehistoric burial site. You're talking 3/4 thousand years old at least! Surely this predates the Picts?
Read the book Island of Wings by Altenberg for a good story of what life was like there 200 years ago. Historically accurate details and interesting plot.
Thanks for the tip
Could people, move back now if they want? What is stopping them, if they wished?
It is too remote, with no school, doctor or ferry service
@@tourscotland is there anything to stop people moving there . You just get the boat and live there . Not for me though.
My brother in law was stationed there in the listening station, not a lot of night life.
@@pegjames188 some people might like the natural life.
The National Trust for Scotland owns St Kilda and its archipelago, probably need permission from them, too live there. Would certainly need to be very fit and self sufficient, as there would be very little support. Lots of money might fix that problem.
they left long before dna tests, would have interesting to find out who they were related to. presumably their descendants have mixed with mainland scots since they left.
good idea John
Here we go again the people were descendents of the picts
Could the earliest settlers have been Vikings? - after all Vikings even settled a part of Canada for a time and Greenland for a few hundred years.
thank you for your comment, that might have happened
Come on now they are ancestors of the picts they were there long before the invaders came
Recent archeological findings show that the islands were already settled at least 2000 years ago. Iron age pottery shards with food remains were radio carbon dated to somewhere between 400 BCE and 100 CE.
Just thinking, there must have been interbreeding in that close community.
probably
Nope they went to the mainland for that
Nice clothes.
Glad you like them
Aye.
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This is the promised land for our migrants.
yes, it is
@@tourscotland Thank you Sir.
say chees
thank you
I think I would be happy living there in total isolation and escape forced vaccinations!
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Isolation = yes, that would be nice
Vaccines = who cares
@@joshoreilly4880 I care about my DNA and the chances of carrying on my blood line.
@@panspermiahunter7597 😐... Right
@@panspermiahunter7597 not the place for it here dude