Miscellaneous

1959 - MFV Misty Isle and (maybe Acorn) at Kyleakin Pier, MacBraynes - Loch Seaforth approaching Kyle from Mallaig en route to Stornoway.

1960 - MacBraynes - Loch Nevis at Kyle Railway Pier - mailboat to Portree and Raasay from Mallaig via Kyle.

Note also Tommy Pollock's lorry & GPO van.

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2010 - The wreck of the Port Napier in Loch Na Beiste with Kyle in the distance

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Circa 1910s - View of Kyleakin crofts from Kyle Farm.

Note there are no Council houses.

Circa 1935 - Kyleakin from Kyle Farm area at high tide with crofts in usage.

Note numbers 1 and 2 Kyleside and no Village Hall.

Note the water pipe from the reservoir crossing the Obbe and also the Village Hall and additional 6 houses on Kyleside

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Circa 1950 - View over the Obbe from the Pier after the coming of electricity (note the electricity poles at the rear of the houses).

Circa 1950 - MFV Castle Moil - BRD360 with Maggie MacAskill on the pavement by the barking shed

Circa 1930 - MFV Acacia - BRD133 belonging to the Reid family with an early turntable ferry at the Pier and the coal shed attached to Cameron's Shop

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1966 - Convoy of MacBraynes buses travelling through Breakish with Beinn na Caillich ringed in mist

Circa 1950 - MV Coruisk passenger ferry owned by British Rail at Kyleakin Pier

Circa 1930 - Nicolson’s Portree Motor Coach Company bus waiting at Kyleakin Corran

Circa 1933 - Dunvegan bus waiting at Kings Arms Hotel, Kyleakin.

Portree bus collecting passengers from the ferry at Kyleakin.

Note the newspapers being delivered and the man in the ferry uniform and wellingtons is Alistair Finlayson.

Note the wooden pier built to service the mail boat from Kyle and Portree, also, cows on Corran, and the church looks as if it has 2 doors.

Note the MacInnes's cottage (Hector Grant's Granny) where Coille Bhurich's garden is now.

Another photograph has been superimposed on top giving this picture a surreal appearance.