Encapsulating a life where the need to work and premature death were the only constants.
The Feather Store was where fulmar and gannet feathers were kept, and sold to pay the rent. Seabirds were important diet components of the people from Hirta, who were evacuated in 1930. Disease and 'outside influences' are attributed with this removal of the inhabitants of Hirta.
VAN-Excellent stuff."HIRTA",in particular should be used in any future film adaptation of Professor Archie Roy's brilliant novel set on St Kilda featuring time-travelling Nazis.Jas.
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