Can I read Memories of North and West Sutherland on EtoBox?

Memories of North and West Sutherland by Christopher J. Uncles is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Memories of North and West Sutherland about?

Memories of this most north-westerly corner of mainland Britain, from the closing years of Queen Victoria's reign until the Second World War, spill from the pages of Chris Uncles' latest book which contains over 190 carefully selected and meticulously researched images never previously presented in this format. Sutherland is a unique landscape - fashioned during a distant Ice Age, settled by the Vikings and subsequently turned into a "man-made desert" by the notorious early nineteenth century Clearances which systematically removed a population to make way for Cheviot sheep. The range of subjects featured includes: the old "green" drovers' roads, change-houses and inns, the early mail services, "Big Houses", sporting lodges and hotels, the establishment of ports at Lochinver and Kinlochbervie, days at Cape Wrath lighthouse, memories of an upbringing on a croft during the Second World War, and of HMS Hood in Loch Eriboll. Highland ferries have all but disappeared, but photographs of small working ferries (including that at Kylesku) and narrow, rough roads in the early days of motoring, together with a brief history of the fondly remembered Sutherland Transport and Trading Company, w

Author

Christopher J. Uncles

Publisher

Stenlake; Stenlake Publishing

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781840332339