The Summer of '89 Foula but which helped the community

but which helped the community to survive and indeed underpinned a rich and distinctive Gaelic culture

‘It was only in the Seventies

becoming community manager and latterly a teaching fellow at Stirling University Campus for nurses in Stornoway

fire and water – as a way of exploring a sense of place

he always does so in respectful and measured terms

The Summer of '89 Foula but which helped the communityby Bob Charnley This book is the story of a remarkable quest; a search for the history behind a faded photograph album discovered in a second hand bookshop in Stockport in 1986. Within it's pages lay the chronicle of a tour made around Scotland over a century ago; images of a now vanished world peopled by busy Victorian businessmen, Highland soldiers, tinsmiths, fishermen, crofters, washerwomen and impoverished children. Yet the most startling