Scotland forum 35 room
Image by Hob
Scotland

Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland — my view

close
more_vert
CARL C
CARL Jul 2, 2012 07:07:23
Replying to SCATHAN

I meant no offence - merely my observations.
It makes sense about the grant (I didn't know about that) and you are right that it was the old stone built hoses which were in ruin. I must say I thought these were much nicer houses than the modern pre-fabs however better the facilities. Pity they couldn't have renovated the old buildings?

We thought the same about the abandoned cars - we never saw a scrap yard on the island.

However the abandones houses, cars etc is something we never saw on Lweis, Orkney or Shetland - certainly to the same extent.

W wideford
wideford Jul 2, 2012 08:45:13
Replying to CARL

It isn't that many years since Orkney started scrapping the old heaps left lying around, before that it looked much the same

CARL wrote:
I meant no offence - merely my observations.
It makes sense about the grant (I didn't know about that) and you are right that it was the old stone built hoses which were in ruin. I must say I thought these were much nicer houses than the modern pre-fabs however better the facilities. Pity they couldn't have renovated the old buildings?

We thought the same about the abandoned cars - we never saw a scrap yard on the island.

However the abandones houses, cars etc is something we never saw on Lweis, Orkney or Shetland - certainly to the same extent.

J juamei
juamei Jul 2, 2012 12:22:07
Replying to CARL

CARL wrote:
I meant no offence - merely my observations.
It makes sense about the grant (I didn't know about that) and you are right that it was the old stone built hoses which were in ruin. I must say I thought these were much nicer houses than the modern pre-fabs however better the facilities. Pity they couldn't have renovated the old buildings?
A few years back we got talking to the lovely elderly inhabitant of the house at Fang circle (http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/567/fang_circle.html) and iirc her husband was born in the first ruined croft past the modern box house and his grandmother was born in the ruined croft built on the circle...

S SCATHAN
SCATHAN Jul 14, 2012 10:21:34
Replying to CARL

No offence taken, just seizing a rare opportunity to appear knowledgeable on here. Totally agree about the houses, I guess in the days of grant availability, heating and double-glazing weren't as sophisticated, and the green agenda was unheard of. There's a lovely old ruined 2 up 2 down on a spit of land near Callanish that, when my ship comes in............................