Jura Lives interviewed people over a two-year period about their living memories of the island of Jura in Argyll and Bute. It resulted in over 180 hours of audio recordings. By hosting some of the highlights from this collection, Scran is enabling access to a great resource for finding out about how … [Read more...]
Jura Voices from the Past
On Jura recently, they’ve been hearing voices of friends who have passed on. The oral history project that is currently running on the island has gained access to cassette tapes made in the early 1990s, featuring some of the icons of previous generations. Gordon Wright, keen local historian once of … [Read more...]
Knockrome and Ardfernal Crofting Townships
Just outside Craighouse where the Corran River flows under the Three Arches Bridge is a right turn from the main road to a beautiful part of Jura. If you follow this road you eventually end up on a wee hill at Ardfernal offering great panoramic views over the island. I want to share a beautiful … [Read more...]
Jura Genealogy – Trace your Jura Ancestors
Between the late eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries many crofters in the Scottish Highlands were forced to continue crofting on inferior lands and many of them chose to emigrate, often to countries such as the US and Canada. For some reason, not known to me, many people that migrated from Jura … [Read more...]
Jura Paupers Houses
A while back Gavin pointed out a beautiful collection of old Jura images and when I revisited the site I had a closer look at images from Knockrome and Ardfernal. One of the images that raised my interest was a very old one of the Paupers' Houses dating back 1901. Let me first show you the image and … [Read more...]