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What are they doing in Stornoway?

Page from The Sphere, 24 July 1920, reporting on life in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis, the Western Isles of Scotland, where Lord Leverhulme had recently become landlord and began to impose his ideas on what industries the locals should focus on. Pictures include a misty morning at the Standing Stones of Callernish by W. G. Burn Murdoch, the castle grounds at Stornoway, a spinner at work, and children coming home from school in Tarbert, and island village

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13931619
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46807957
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3877px x 5901px (4.5MB)
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© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Page from The Sphere', 24 July 1920, page 72

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Article Callernish Feature Hebrides Isles Leverhulme Mar23 Sphere Spinner Spinning Stornoway Tarbert Traditions


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