This thirty-minute Scottish heritage download featuring stills from our extensive still’s gallery, called Journey back in time. See how your Scottish ancestors lived and the work that they did.
• how they reclaimed rough land into agricultural use.
• the labour-intensive hard work they did
• how whinns were utilised as winter feed for cattle.
• how each community was almost totally self-contained up to the 1940s.
• the Laird was a key stakeholder in the community, and he would have been the major employer. He also dispensed law from the seat of justice.
• experience how rural education was. Note how the leather belt was used to punish the deviant pupil.
• the population of the rural areas of Scotland up to 1950s and its demise
• find out about the role the farmhouse kitchen fire played.
• enjoy the Doric dialect.