The Summer of '89 Foula ‘It was only in the

‘It was only in the Seventies

fire and water – as a way of exploring a sense of place

becoming community manager and latterly a teaching fellow at Stirling University Campus for nurses in Stornoway

but which helped the community to survive and indeed underpinned a rich and distinctive Gaelic culture

The Summer of '89 Foula ‘It was only in theby Bob Charnley This book is the story of a remarkable quest; a search for the history behind a faded photograph album discovered in a second hand bookshop in Stockport in 1986. Within it's pages lay the chronicle of a tour made around Scotland over a century ago; images of a now vanished world peopled by busy Victorian businessmen, Highland soldiers, tinsmiths, fishermen, crofters, washerwomen and impoverished children. Yet the most startling