St Kilda Mailboat

St Kilda Mailboat

St Kilda Mailboat West Highland Museum By the late 1890s, a unique system of mail dispatch had developed on the remote Scottish archipelago of St Kilda. Letters were enclosed in a waterproof receptacle, usually a sheep’s bladder, attached to a homemade buoy, and...
Light from a Bicycle

Light from a Bicycle

Light from a Bicycle Seaboard Centre Simple objects like this help us to understand how people of the past would have lived. Bicycle travel was common and this light belonged to Robert Ross who lived in the village of Balintore, on the Easter Ross Peninsula.    He...
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