The Summer of '89 Foula The world he inhabited was

The world he inhabited was in many ways a relatively privileged one

‘It was only in the Seventies

Yet the most startling revelations were to be attached to the figures themselves

but which helped the community to survive and indeed underpinned a rich and distinctive Gaelic culture

The Summer of '89 Foula The world he inhabited wasby Bob Charnley This book is the story of a remarkable quest; a search for the history behind a faded photograph album discovered in a second hand bookshop in Stockport in 1986. Within it's pages lay the chronicle of a tour made around Scotland over a century ago; images of a now vanished world peopled by busy Victorian businessmen, Highland soldiers, tinsmiths, fishermen, crofters, washerwomen and impoverished children. Yet the most startling