Crappit Heids for Tea
Recollections of a Highland Childhood
Published on 25. August 2012
128 pages
978-0-85790-536-9 (ISBN)
Description
Sutherland is one of the most ruggedly beautiful and sparsely populated parts of Scotland. In the nineteenth century, the Duke of Sutherland set about improving his landholdings to make them more productive by building lodges for sporting tenants who came to enjoy the summer fishing and shooting grouse and deer. In the 1870s some 3,000 acres of land were reclaimed at Shinness. A lodge was built there in 1882 and allocated some 2,500 acres of moorland for grouse and grazing, together with the fishings on Loch Shin and its rivers. One of the first keepers at the estate was John Fraser. His daughter, Iby, became a teacher at Lairg School. In the 1970s, long after the Fletcher family had taken on Shinness Estate, Iby wrote down some recollections of her early life for Mrs Fletcher's interest.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Birlinn General
Illustrations
Illustrations
File size
2,69 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-85790-536-9 (9780857905369)
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Chris Fletcher's family acquired Shinness Estate in 1941, and he himself lived there from the age of seven. His family still manages the estate and the lodge is now available for holiday lets.
Annie Tindley teaches history at Glasgow Caledonian University and has worked extensively on the history of Highland Sutherland estates.
Annie Tindley teaches history at Glasgow Caledonian University and has worked extensively on the history of Highland Sutherland estates.
Content
- Intro
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword by Alistair, Lord Strathnaver
- Map
- 1. Shinness Estate: the Reclamations and Sutherland Shooting Lodges, 1850-1920 by Dr Anne-Marie Tindley
- 2. Iby Fraser and Her Family, Shinness and Lairg
- 3. Recollections of Highland Childhood by Fraser
- 4. Ann Gray, of Colaboll, Lairg
- 5 .Changed Days in the Colaboll Steading by Ann Gray
