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A Look Back on Grimshader (part 1)
with Torquil MacRae Early Day’s I began my life on this very croft. I was born on 21st July 1923, and there was no minister here at that time. It was in 1924 that Malcolm MacIver came, and it was Rose who was here in 1923, so I was more than a year old before…
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A Look Back on Tolsta (part 3)
with Jessie MacLeod (widow of Roderick MacIver) Our family My husband was from Tolastadh. He was sailing with the New Zealand Shipping Company. He was away for long trips. Our daughter was born in March and her father didn’t see her again until November. I’m sorry to say that soon after he left, he was…
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A Look Back on Tolsta (part 2)
with Jessie MacLeod (widow of Roderick MacIver) Fishing The people here had their own boats, going out with small-lines, but they had boats in Stornoway too. My father had a boat, the Dove and one called Clan MacLeod, and there used to be boys from Point working as cooks on them – galley-boys – Angus…
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A Look Back on Tolsta (part 1)
with Jessie MacLeod (widow of Roderick MacIver) Schooldays We had two teachers – Mary Jane Smith from Holm and Maggie Mary MacLeod. The headmaster was from Uig, Mr MacLean. We had a teacher from Point too – she was married to Allan Cameron. They didn’t speak Gaelic to us, and we had no English going…
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A Look Back on Manish (part 3)
with Donald MacDonald (Domhnall Shàm), Horgabost Leaving Manish We came to the machair on the 28th of May 1937. I remember it as though it were only yesterday. It was two years before that that the machair was broken up into crofts. There were 8 crofts in Horgabost and 20 in Seilebost. There were so…
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