Mallaig Heritage Centre Products
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NEW! "Built upon Herring" by Mallaig Oral History Project
£9.95
With the opening of the railway in 1901 the hitherto isolated hamlet of Mallaig found itself perfectly situated to exploit the rich fishing grounds of the Sound of Sleat and the Minch.
Within a few years it had become one of the most important fishing ports on the west coast of Scotland and, for a brief period in the 1970s, was the busiest herring port in Europe.
This history of Mallaig uses oral history interviews carried out by the Mallaig Oral History Project and archive material from Mallaig Heritage Centre and the West Highland Museum to tell how the fishing industry became established and how the community developed.
212 pages including 112 photographs and illustrations. ISBN 978-0-9565853-0-1
"When The Fishing Was On"
£9.95
Between 2008 and 2010 Mallaig Heritage Centre undertook an ambitious oral history project to interview and record memories of the great West Coast herring fishery.
This DVD uses a selection of the interviews recorded by the project, along with archive video and photographs, to tell the story of the heyday of the Mallaig herring and lobster fisheries, the kippering sheds and of the "herring girls" who followed the fishing fleets around the coast of Britain.
DVD - PAL format - running time: 60 minutes
NEW! "Captains and Commanders" by Tommy Ralston
£9.99
A native of Campbeltown, Tommy Ralston has spent a lifetime on the West Coast of Scotland, working as a fisherman, fish-buyer and lifeboat coxswain.
In this book he shares his memories of many of the characters who made his experience of the fishing industry so enjoyable and recalls the heyday of the graceful ring-net boats that once hunted herring between Ayrshire and Stornoway.
318 pages, illustrated. ISBN 978-0-9565853-1-8
Fishing in Mallaig by James R. Coull and Malcolm Poole.
£1.95
Mallaig is as much a creation of the fishing industry as of the railway and in the modern period has been one of the main fishing ports of the west coast of Scotland.
This booklet tells the story of how Mallaig developed from a crofting hamlet into a bustling economic centre and, using the records of the old Fishery Board for Scotland, examines the background to the changes in quantity and type of catches during the twentieth century.
Published 2005 - 24 pages, 14 black & white photographs
Rentals for Moidart and Arisaig 1718 edited by Denis Rixson.
£1.20
This booklet is a transcription of the rentals of the confiscated Clanranald lands in Moidart and Arisaig (National Archive of Scotland ref. GD201/5/1257/1 and GD201/5/1257/2), with an introduction by Denis Rixson. The rentals list those tenants who held land directly from Clanranald and the location of their holdings.
First published 2003 - 22 pages
Lost Ancestors: Island families in 1765 on Eigg, Muck, Rum and Canna edited by Julian Munby
£4.95
A transcription of Neill McNeill's Census of the Small Isles Parish with an introduction and accompanying notes.
Published 2007 - 32 pages
