Sandy I would listen to your interesting yarns all day, simply the best.
@TheMaccatakker6925 күн бұрын
My family originates from Carloway but I'm enjoying the series. Thanks. The Macdonalds.
@catherinemacarthur1412Ай бұрын
Another excellent interview Sandy
@annehinton9127Ай бұрын
Wonderful memories Anne
@catherinemacarthur1412Ай бұрын
Love listening to Sandy
@catherinemacarthur1412Ай бұрын
Sandy ever the gentleman. X
@dirtworkАй бұрын
Went to stornoway last summer to see my great great grandfather home, it's a special place can't wait to go back
@sarahguthrie9615Ай бұрын
Are you any relation to a Jane Ann matheson she was from Stornoway and grew up there
@kengalloway7070Ай бұрын
Sandy Matheson does not recognise the name Jane Ann Matheson. Do you know where she resided in Stornoway?
@sarahguthrie9615Ай бұрын
@@kengalloway7070 yea I'm not sure if it's spelt right but it was gravir
@Moon-LabsАй бұрын
Notice they omitted the cities. They're the most diverse places of all. Turns out neolithic britons were black, well thats what the BBC told me
@DorchesterMom16 күн бұрын
They omitted cities precisely for that reason - he explained early in the video that he chose to study Orkney and Shetland because they are historically more isolated populations where specific disease markers (ie, long QT syndrome) deriving from ancient founder populations (such as the Vikings, the picts, and so forth) would be easier to see and identify. Once you know the markers you can easier find them when screening other populations (cities.) You have to identify the genes before you find them, and studying isolated populations makes finding them easier.
@DorchesterMom16 күн бұрын
Neolithic Britains = Early European Hunter Gatherers. They had darker skin, but more closely resembled Africans north of the Sahara than they did the darker Sub-Saharans. Africa is the most genetically diverse continent with the most ancient DNA. They also carried the genes for blue eyes. They must have been strikingly beautiful with that combination.
@buckleigh382 ай бұрын
Great yarns from Sandy!!!
@colinmaciver51872 ай бұрын
Thoroughly enjoyed this Sandy and Kenny. I was just a couple of years behind you in school Sandy but I can identify with just about all the teachers, characters and premises you mention. I spent the first half of my secondary education at both the Francis Street and the old Springfield Road buildings before moving to the brand new premises next door on Springfield Road. You have kindled many fond memories of my school days. Looking forward to the next episode. Colin Maciver, Australia (grew up in Nicolson Road, Stornoway.)
@kengalloway7070Ай бұрын
I discussed your message with Sandy who is currently the Honorary President of Stornoway Historical Society. He told me he well remembers your prowess in long distance athletics both locally and in Glasgow.
@TheMaccatakker692 ай бұрын
Lovely and calming to listen to. Thanks Sandy!
@urex17173 ай бұрын
I am a Matheson whose family emigrated to New Brunswick in Canada in either 1831 or 1832 and have often wondered if James bought the island because of some nostalgic reasons and is somehow connected to my family. I have been unable to find any connection through thousands of hours of genealogical research but there are gaps in said research that can never be filled.
@theestimator3 ай бұрын
Sadly they’re aw deed or 70 or older, silent footstep’s from the past, my heart break’s knowing your World didn’t last, a voracious greed spawned in the far south, spread its grasping strangulation in your direction. Luckily, the sea crossing aided and abetted by a completely pitiful Cal-Mac/Government Ferry system, is just about preventing the eventual demise of your wonderful Island. RIP good Soul’s of yesteryear, know that your goodness still foster’s devotee’s and pupil’s, trying to hold back corruption and tyranny. It is doubtful however that today 2024 would see so many Union flag’s waving so merrily !!!!!! 😢🇬🇧🏴
@tikkathreebarrels6 ай бұрын
Thank you RNLI crewmen for your service.
@cityzens6347 ай бұрын
Those fishing boats are mostly African workers these days
@iVenge7 ай бұрын
Our people, our culture, our history. God bless them all.
@user-wy2iv9xn9o8 ай бұрын
I would like to know what you know about the birthmark that my doctor said it only exists in the first Viking trib and they called it the Vikings Ring and where it is originated thank you
@balachmor1 Жыл бұрын
Fantastic !!
@1crofter Жыл бұрын
Brilliant footage
@biliwili662 Жыл бұрын
Espero volver a Stornoway algún día! ❤️
@adminsroserobertson Жыл бұрын
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@desertcrone6431 Жыл бұрын
Sandy! How wonderful to hear your voice 🥰
@EILEENMACLEODmacleodspotshots Жыл бұрын
Truly interesting , many thanks .
@kennymacdonald5313 Жыл бұрын
Interesting that he believes L165 is Pictish and not Scandinavian.
@mairianncullen8753 Жыл бұрын
It's really important research. I've volunteered and returned my questionnaire and DNA. The 'spit kit' bit is easy. The questionnaire is long - but interesting to complete. You don't need to do it all at once. It helps first to gather together basic info about your Hebridean grandparents - e.g. dates/place of birth etc. It is also ok to say you don't know.
@mairianncullen8753 Жыл бұрын
That was a treat! Thank you for sharing it.
@silverhearttribe Жыл бұрын
A few months ago I did a My Heritage DNA test, as dad came from Stornoway. Definite Viking / Scandinavian heritage ... Fascinating. Will be watching this again.
@malthus1012 жыл бұрын
Hello! Do you remember an old television film that was made about a girl who was the only student in a single classroom, a short walk away from Stornoway? Thanks.
@sycove12 жыл бұрын
It doesn't ring a bell, sorry.
@johnmacritchie22732 жыл бұрын
The quality of the pictures are amazing 😉 for 1963-64. Pity I wasn’t born then so I might recognise some people. Wonderful to see Stornoway at that time and to see all the changes and still see some places that remain since then. Wonderful to see the Carnival hasn’t changed much.🤣 The amount of young children on floats that would never be allowed today for health and safety reasons.🙈 The Town Hall looks amazing 😉 back then and the amazing 😉 costumes people wore.👍🤣🤣
@calumbartlett2 жыл бұрын
I included some clips from your brilliant footage in a music video I made for the Isle of Lewis - Hope that's OK. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3e5gXmJoNh7hsk
@sycove12 жыл бұрын
As long as you acknowledge the Society and Ken Holgate, that's ok.
@calumbartlett2 жыл бұрын
@@sycove1 Thanks - I'd acknowledged the Society and linked directly to your vid already but I'll add Ken to it as well.
@calum663 жыл бұрын
I went to the Nicholson in the sixties and what we were subjected to was tantamount to institutional child abuse and this had gone on for many generations. We were viciously segregated according to whether we were considered bright or dull (A and B classes were taught in the 'Pink School', C in the 'Huts' , which were situated in the play ground, and T ((for tutorial)) in a corrugated iron shed on what seemed like a patch of waste ground a safe distance from the main body of the school, somewhere amongst the 'mentally handicapped '. ) Then we were routinely humiliated and thrashed until we had the confidence and self worth literally beaten out of us. Today many of these so called teachers and their facilitators would be frog marched to jail. To me the Nicholson Institute was an utter disgrace. (Calum Morrison ((Wee Bowser)
@sarahmacleod38413 жыл бұрын
I'm only 10 nearly 11 but it's really interesting to see what Lewis looked like over 50 years ago, I've always wondered the history of Lewis and just realising there are videos on the internet to show me that is amazing
@karriemackenzie15283 жыл бұрын
I burped and I just wanted to let you know that I burped
@theestimator3 ай бұрын
aye but can you fart at the same time ehh ? 😂😂😂
@francos_dad3 жыл бұрын
Shown this is to me Dad, he’d have been 25 then
@cassandrastornoway54453 жыл бұрын
It's no myth that the Nicholson Institute was a brutal place for children to be - run by christian patriachs - I remember the thrashings
@cassandrastornoway54453 жыл бұрын
I miss my granny bayhead
@mikecole61844 жыл бұрын
Great to see this film. I was working on the airfield from April 1963 to August 1964 aged 19 and married in August 1963 in Windsor and took my wife to Stornoway two days after we married. We lived in one of the staff caravans on the corner of the road up to the airport buildings at Melbost. This film brings back a lot of happy memories and thoughts of all of the local people that whose company we greatly enjoyed. Mike Cole
@OldDunollieman4 жыл бұрын
Great lecture by one of a dying breed, a knowledgeable Scottish journalist.
@thehistoryguy50454 жыл бұрын
This woman gave me so much strength when I was being bullied in the Nicolson institute. A much missed woman and an unrivalled teacher
@johnkennedy87954 жыл бұрын
A special place and people,, Love going back as often as I can, x
@lewis19365 жыл бұрын
As a tall well built schoolboy remember working as casual labour on the Loch Dunvegan on the barrows as a docker.Sixty years ago You could gain employment if they could not find sufficient dockers
@davey99555 жыл бұрын
Who are the ladies in their uniforms near a large cooking pot
@kengalloway70705 жыл бұрын
The ladies are serving soup during a carnival day in Stornoway. The uniforms are from the WVS (Women's Voluntary Services)
@portrona15 жыл бұрын
Excellent and a great presentation. Very well done to the port authority for their vision and hard work to deliver on these schemes.
@annmacleod10995 жыл бұрын
You can stuff your viking s up your arse you talk of stornoway and yet you refuse people or do not accept people who are born or from stornoway not interested in the vikings . You constantly say or nod no fuck off I'm saying no .
@annmacleod10995 жыл бұрын
How can that be if queen Victoria and Margaret Thatcher is English and Hungarian and q beck canadian 18th centuary and 19th centuary I find this difficult to believe that this is stornoway or to do with the Highlands I no some street names in stornoway of percival and Matheson street .apart from that I don't know at what this has to do with being scotland stornoway Highlands.
@OldDunollieman5 жыл бұрын
Great craik, I enjoyed the stories. I'm from Oban and remember visiting Stornoway in the late 50's and early 60's, I'm now in Iowa USA but love hearing about the good old days from my native land.
@murdomaclean14065 жыл бұрын
They made good float`s these days, also the sheep`s skin on the pier, and the cal mac crane.... I remember the crane