Picture No | 10290290 |
Date | 1884 |
Description | The Skye crofters' Land League Agitation |
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Sketches in the Isle of Skye: the Crofters' Land League.~~1.Staffin, from the Bay.~~2.Crofters' huts in Portree.~~3.Women of the crofters.~~4. A Skye landlord.~~5. Marines at Uig wading to their boats at low-tide.~~6. The postman's horn.~~7. Police, under direction of the sheriff, constructing a bridge for marines bringing supplies to the lodge.~~8. Field Lieutenant of H.M.S Assistance sorting letters.~~9. Patriarch opening the crofters' meeting with prayer.~~10. View of Uig, from bows of H.M.S Assistance, with boats conveying marines ashore, and H.M.S Forester.
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Source | The Illustrated London News, December 13th 1884, page 572 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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