Highland Clearance – Lightly Peated

Saturday, December 7, 2024

Lightly Peated

Whisky, Blabber 'n' Smoke

History Literature

David June 2, 2020 0 Comments Badbea, Butchers Broom, fishing industry, herrings, Highland Clearance, Highlands, literature, Neil M Gunn, Sun Circle, The Silver Darlings

Novels of Neil Gunn – Pt. 6

The History Novels The Remote Past, The Clearance, The Sea Neil Gunn never liked history when he was at school,

David September 26, 2018September 27, 2018 0 Comments Archibald Buchanan, Arkwright, Clynelish, cotton, Cromford, Deanston, factory system, Highland Clearance, Industrial Revolution, James Smith, water frame

Arkwright and Deanston

You start with an interest in whisky but before you know it you are looking at cotton and the rise

Distillery Visits History

David December 14, 2016December 15, 2017 0 Comments Brora, Highland Clearance, industry, planning, Sutherland

Brora – The Industrial Village

Clynelish distillery is at the northern end of Brora and as I was coming from Dornoch I drove the whole