... except the Kyles and Western Isles

Continuing from Part 1, in 1975 the Columba - the Caledonian MacBrayne car ferry built in 1964 which now operates as the "boutique...

On 23 July 2010, the Queen and other members of the royal family left Stornoway in a blaze of publicity for a cruise round the Western Isles...

Here's an interesting cutting from the Glasgow Herald of 2 June 1950 - a plan for the proposed development of Kyle of Lochalsh:- The ...

The original seat of the clan MacNeil of Barra, Kisimul Castle, is one of the most distinctive landmarks of the Western Isles and, fully r...

When I was a child, in the early 70s, we used to go on family holidays to Gairloch in Wester Ross. Every evening, we would go down to the pi...

A while back I wrote about what used to be understood by the words ferries and steamers  and more recently highlighted this postcard of the ...

Until the 1880s, the Outer Hebrides (except Stornoway) and many of the remoter Inner Hebrides (e.g. Coll and Tiree) were dependent for commu...