[decimon]

Hirta stay ping.

[Ciexyz]

What an interesting place for a visit.

[decimon]

St. Kildans sitting on the village street, 1886.

[colorado tanker]

Some fascinating information on St. Kilda on a National Trust website, which now owns the island.

http://www.kilda.org.uk/

The place was evacuated in 1930 at the request of the few remaining St. Kildan's as young people left and their subsistence way of life was breaking down.

One interesting piece of trivia concerns the case of Lady Grange. After bearing nine children she became enraged at an affair by her husband. She threatened to expose him as a treasonous Jacobite. He had her kidnapped and held in captivity the rest of her life in the Western Isles. She spent a miserable year in a hovel on St. Kilda.

[SunkenCiv]

BTW, there's something I've been meaning to do:

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Thanks to FReeper sionnsar for the many pings! Wish you were here to see this one.

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Pipes and Drums of FreeRepublic ping!

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