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Fank day at Cravadale, Harris: men and a boy resting on a big boulder outside a white house, a dog nearby
Calum Sheumais' house, Cnoc Esgan, Harris: a stone cottage on the hillside above the sea
Mol Bàn, Cluer, Harris: a thatched house behind a stone wall, with a telegraph pole
The ferry Claymore in the bay at Castlebay, Barra, with a castle on the right
A red telephone box on the moor in South Uist, two cattle standing beside it
Two whitewashed thatched cottages above the shore at Sruthan Ruadh, Malaclete, North Uist, with hills across the water
The ferry Hebrides arriving at Lochmaddy, North Uist, beside a wooden pier
Old photo: single-track road across moorland and lochans on the old road between Lochmaddy and Bayhead, North Uist
Sheep being gathered towards Drobhainish fank, Uig, Lewis, with people on the hillside and a sea loch behind
Fishing boat leaving Tarbert pier, Harris, with the MacBrayne's building, village houses and hill behind
Tarbert, Harris, from above: cars parked in the square, a lorry and a caravan, with houses and hills behind
Tarbert, Harris, seen from the hill above, with houses between two arms of sea loch and moorland around
Village histories - Western Isles
View from Beinn Dubh, Harris, across a deep blue sea loch to the North Harris hills
West Tarbert, Harris: village houses and buildings along a road by the shore, beneath a heather hillside
Large peat stack at Arnol, Lewis, beside an old stone blackhouse and drystone walls
Peat stack and a bed of spread peat at the South Galson road end, Lewis, with croft houses beyond
Lionel machair, Ness, Lewis, thick with pink clover, with a sandy bay and surf in the distance
Fishing boat 'Ripple' at Stornoway, Lewis, with crew in yellow oilskins and gulls following
The ferry 'Hebrides' berthed at Tarbert pier, Harris, with village houses and hills behind
Old photo: a group of teenagers standing on rocks at Tarbert, Harris, with a farmhouse behind
Old photo: a large group of schoolchildren with two men and a woman outside a corrugated iron building, Tarbert, Harris
Old photo: a boy in shorts and a jacket standing beside a barrel at the corner of a house, Tarbert, Harris
Old photo: a young woman holding a camera on rocky moorland near a peat stack, Tarbert, Harris
Old photo: a woman and girl on the pier by the MacBrayne's Tarbert Harris building, with barrels and creels
Old photo, Tarbert, Harris: men, women and a dog standing in front of a large haystack
Old photo, Tarbert, Harris: two women in aprons sitting on a hillside, one knitting
Old photo, Tarbert, Harris: a man hammering in a gatepost while a boy holds the gate, house behind
Old photo, Tarbert, Harris: an elderly man in a cap sitting in a doorway with a bucket at his feet
Empty farmhouse on the open machair of Taransay, with a red-roofed steading and the Harris hills behind
White pony carrying a pack saddle and creel across rocky moorland on Taransay, with water beyond
Old photo: thatched stone house on Taransay, Harris, with hills across the water
The MacRaes of Taransay, a man and a woman, standing in front of a thatched stone house
Paible shore, Taransay, with grassy foreground, rocky shoreline and cloud over the Harris hills
Paible village, Taransay: a thatched house and grassy ruined walls by the sea, a figure walking past
Drystone walls and old buildings on the rocky point at Raa, Taransay, looking across the sound to Harris
Two men launching a small boat from the rocks at Rubha an Trìlleachain, Taransay, with the Harris hills across the sound
Stone schoolhouse on Taransay with a rusting corrugated iron roof and a pile of stones beside it
Old photo: cattle grazing on rocky ground on the west coast of Taransay, Harris, with hills across the water
People shearing sheep at a stone fank on Taransay, with a white building and hills behind
Stone-walled fank with pens and fencing on Taransay, beside a white sand beach, looking across to Harris
Eoghan Beag riding the white pony 'Tommy' with a creel, a dog beside them, Taransay
Cattle and sheep with a few people on open ground on Taransay, by a red-roofed building and the sea
'Maggie Rhenigidale' at her spinning wheel outside a house on Scarp, Harris
Three boys on an old abandoned lorry beside a sea loch on Scarp, Harris
Emigrant stories - Western Isles
Rubha Glas, Scalpay: a thatched house and stone ruins with a rowing boat at the water's edge
Close-up of someone in wellies working the soil with a wooden rake, Scalpay, Harris
Old photo: Ceiteag Shomhairle at her spinning wheel outside a thatched stone house, Cuidinish, Harris
Old photo: Raghnall's house in Cuidinish, Harris, on a hillside above a sea loch
Domhnall Eoghainn Raghnaill sitting on a heathery hillside with his dog Sweep, above a sea loch at Cuidinish, Harris
Two men walking past rowing boats drawn up on a stony beach at Hushinish, Harris
Boats pulled up on the shore below rocks at Hushinish jetty, Harris, with oil drums and a black cat
Old photo: the Ross girls of 11 Geocrab, Harris, four young women in a studio portrait
Geocrab, Harris, with the red mill building and white houses beside an inlet in rocky country
John and Hector MacKay of 4 Geocrab, Harris, among haystacks in a field by a sea loch
Whitewashed cottage, 'Station', by a rocky shore at Finsbay, Harris, under dark cloud
Old photo: Annie 'Station' feeding a horned sheep at Finsbay, Harris
Domhnall Eoghainn Raghnaill and his dog Sweep on a hillside above a sea loch and houses at Cuidinish, Harris
Hushinish, Harris: sheep crowded in a stone fank beside a sandy beach, with people watching
Old photo: people gathered at the fank at Hushinish, Harris, with sheep penned by the shore
The ferry 'Castle Moil' crossing at Leverburgh, Harris, with two people on deck
The orange and white ferry 'Endeavour' leaving Leverburgh, Harris, with low islands behind
Fank day at Molinginsh, Harris: three men in a rowing boat carrying sheep, by a rocky shore
Northton crofts, Harris, from the hill: strips of fields on the green machair beside a white beach
Glumagan, Northton, Harris: saltmarsh channels and pools stretching to a snow-capped hill
Northton machair, Harris, covered in white, pink and yellow flowers below a heather hill
Flowering machair at Northton, Harris, with a track crossing it and the sands and hills beyond
Sunset through pink haze at Northton, Harris, with houses, a parked bus and the hill behind
View from Maodal, Harris, over Northton houses and fields to an island and the sea beyond
Single-track road winding down to Northton, Harris, with houses, a sandy bay and a steep hill
Northton, Harris: a house in the glen between hills, with the sands and sea beyond
Northton, Harris, from above, with houses spread along the road towards a bright sandy bay
Whitewashed cottage with a green door on Pabbay, Harris, beside a ruined stone building
A stack of drying peats on the moor at Scalpay, Harris
Mrs M MacLeod of Scalpay, Harris, smiling in the doorway of a corrugated iron building
Man steering the small motor boat 'Ivy' across calm water at Scalpay, Harris
The fishing boat Hercules (SY 12) moored off the rocky shore at Scalpay, Harris
The Scalpay fleet: three fishing boats tied up at a pier, with snow on the hills
Old photo: fishing boats moored at the pier at Fleet, Scalpay, Harris
The steamer 'Lochmor' lying off Rodel, Harris, seen over the village rooftops
Katie Campbell weaving at her loom in a wooden-walled weaving shed, Plocrapol, Harris

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