Such wonderful days to remember at Roddy Smiths Chemist. The drama, the fun and to witness the "wrath" & eloquence of Sandy, a force to behold !!.I was interviewed by Sandy in 1980 at The Russell Hotel in London for the position of relief Pharmacist and was provided with accommodation at Beinnadrove Farm House. The working experience was second to none and prepared me for pharmacy ownership.I will never forget the joy and comradeship amongst us .God bless him,John the Chemist, and his super pharmacy Team.

Short back and sides haircuts for the lads. No blue jeans, no skateboards, either.

Is that Boydies Da I saw there?

Hebrideans have higher oestrogen levels than Glaswegians 😂!

Honest hard working people getting on with life, not like today's lazy weirdo's

I wonder how many people got stabbed that year?

Sandy I would listen to your interesting yarns all day, simply the best.

My family originates from Carloway but I'm enjoying the series. Thanks. The Macdonalds.

Another excellent interview Sandy

Wonderful memories Anne

Love listening to Sandy

Sandy ever the gentleman. X

Went to stornoway last summer to see my great great grandfather home, it's a special place can't wait to go back

Are you any relation to a Jane Ann matheson she was from Stornoway and grew up there

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

Great yarns from Sandy!!!

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.)

Lovely and calming to listen to. Thanks Sandy!

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.

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 !!!!!! 😢🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Thank you RNLI crewmen for your service.

Those fishing boats are mostly African workers these days

Our people, our culture, our history. God bless them all.

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

Fantastic !!

Brilliant footage

Espero volver a Stornoway algún día! ❤️

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Sandy! How wonderful to hear your voice 🥰

Truly interesting , many thanks .

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.

That was a treat! Thank you for sharing it.

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.

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.

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.👍🤣🤣

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

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)

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

I burped and I just wanted to let you know that I burped

Shown this is to me Dad, he’d have been 25 then

It's no myth that the Nicholson Institute was a brutal place for children to be - run by christian patriachs - I remember the thrashings

I miss my granny bayhead

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

Great lecture by one of a dying breed, a knowledgeable Scottish journalist.

This woman gave me so much strength when I was being bullied in the Nicolson institute. A much missed woman and an unrivalled teacher

A special place and people,, Love going back as often as I can, x

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

Who are the ladies in their uniforms near a large cooking pot

Excellent and a great presentation. Very well done to the port authority for their vision and hard work to deliver on these schemes.

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 .