Glimpses of Kyleakin
Note cow grazing in front.
View of Kyleakin from the mainland with first council houses and new village hall (wooden pier still there). Village Hall (2nd right from the Kings Arms).
Circa late 1930's View from Lump with chimneys of Winkle Hall in the foreground.
Circa late 1930's. View of village from Cnoc na Errich at high tide with "lots" in the background.
Circa late 1930's. The old wooden pier and the first council house (1 & 2 Kyleside) next to the Kings Arms Hotel.
Circa late 1920's. Kyleakin Hotel and Kings Arms Hotel with the stables behind.
Circa 1930's - Kyleakin Pier from Cnoc na Errich.
A celebration on the Corran, May 1937 - King George VI coronation.
Down the Pier, showing the Coal Shed attached to the Tea Room and Shop. MacLean the Butcher's shop is behind the coal shed.
Circa 1939. Note there are 8 council houses to the west of the Kings Arms and the wooden pier is semi demolished.
1938 - Dredger "Sand Chime" The skipper was a Mr Calendar who lived in Aberdeen (Backhilton Road) and had a daughter called Irene.
Around ferry office area following a fire in the 1930's.
Circa 1950. Railings around the war memorial, the little girl is Ruth Soper.
Circa early 1960's. Note green Co-op van (mobile shop) on the Obbe Road.
The Porst below Hillside about early 1960's.
The Osprey on the shore at the pier head - early 1960's.
Circa 1960's. Loch Carron Handloom Weavers with ruin of Urquhart's House behind Fuchsia Cottage and Coille Bhurich.
Marine Hotel newly refurbished late 1950's. Note the Bell tower is still on the Free Church.
Modern view from the Skye Bridge - taken around 2000.
