The Evacuation of St Kilda | St Kilda | Poverty | Dangers of the Mainland | Scotland | 1972

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  • Опубликовано: 22 дек 2024

Комментарии • 20

  • @jamesgale2147
    @jamesgale2147 3 года назад +8

    such noble people

  • @michaelsalt4565
    @michaelsalt4565 3 года назад +15

    I visited St Kilda several times, it is one of the most beautiful places on this planet. Nature at its finest, but life for former inhabitants must extremely hard.

    • @jasonayres
      @jasonayres 3 года назад +2

      From what I have read, they were literally 'hungry'.
      It had become unbearable, apparently.

    • @michaelsalt4565
      @michaelsalt4565 3 года назад +3

      @@jasonayres no doubt about that, they were starving ( grain crops had failed due to over farming and use human excrement as fertilizer) wild bird eggs and fishing was the only natural food supply. Next to no medical care leading to high infant mortality.

    • @jasonayres
      @jasonayres 3 года назад +3

      @@michaelsalt4565 Such a shame.
      I'd read that the island had been continually inhabited for some 2000 years.
      Still, they had to be practical.
      Thanks for sharing.

    • @michaelsalt4565
      @michaelsalt4565 3 года назад +1

      @@jasonayres Hirta was the main island and the only one to have a human presence. On the east of Hirta was a bay and relatively flat piece of land. This place was partially protected from the Atlantic weather systems that rolled in with some force and this were the community had lived as you say for thousands of years.. All that remained on the island was a British military unit to man several radars, the remnants of the stone cottages and sheep they left behind, plus millions of sea birds.

  • @faisalahmad4455
    @faisalahmad4455 3 года назад +7

    Respect. Thankyou

  • @raymondbonington9355
    @raymondbonington9355 3 года назад +9

    I remember watching this in 1972 , then watching Macmillan and wife , bloody hell 49 years gone fast .

    • @raymondbonington9355
      @raymondbonington9355 3 года назад +4

      How can I remember 49 years ago but not last month , I'm only 65 lol .

  • @dezmondwhitney1208
    @dezmondwhitney1208 3 года назад +4

    Real Human Experience. Great Stuff.

  • @brendamorrison2792
    @brendamorrison2792 3 года назад +4

    Sad.

  • @anyatranter5588
    @anyatranter5588 Год назад +1

    They should have been paid top dollar for their tweed
    They are now.

  • @CallemJayNZ
    @CallemJayNZ 3 года назад +7

    Those in the Tokelau would appreciate these stories. They're an island full of people that are being evacuated due to climate change

    • @jreg2007
      @jreg2007 3 года назад +9

      climate changes constantly. we humans are so insignificant on this earth, its unreal the propaganda of man-made climate change. the ocean and the sun are the biggest contributing factors to co2.

    • @jreg2007
      @jreg2007 3 года назад +1

      @Seosamh MacAoidh not much no.

    • @baliksupper6043
      @baliksupper6043 3 года назад +1

      @@jreg2007 is that you Trumpy baby!?!?

    • @onemexican1973
      @onemexican1973 2 года назад +2

      @@jreg2007 they do not want to know......it has to be alarmist predictions. We had scientist Flannery in Australia telling sea levels would rise 10 meters ...back in the 1980's....idiot comes to mind.

    • @robokill387
      @robokill387 Год назад +2

      ​@@jreg2007 but dumping millions of years worth of stored greenhouse gases into the atmosphere in a short period of time does not help. P.S the sun is currently in a part of its cycle that it's getting colder, not hotter.

  • @thespamdance311
    @thespamdance311 5 месяцев назад

    I’d be desperate if I’d only won one premiership.