General view.

Description General view.

Date 1900

Collection Papers of Erskine Beveridge, antiquarian, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 746805

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of IN 923

Scope and Content Tarbert Hotel, Harris, Western Isles Tarbert, a village and ferry port on the southern part of Harris, lies on a narrow neck of land which saves the island from being bisected by the inlets of West and East Loch Tarbert. This photograph of the Tarbert Hotel, the main hotel on the island, was taken in 1900 by the Victorian photographer, Erskine Beveridge. The hotel, a large, rambling, mid-19th-century, stone-built country house, lies at the far end of the village. It has a main, two-storeyed block (left) with a large gabled drawing-room wing and a projecting entrance porch with a stag's head above the door. The lower range (right), set back from the main block, has dormer windows and more gables. The south-facing garden, enclosed by a drystone wall, is sheltered by trees, an unusual feature on the island. In the early 20th century, visitors came to Harris to hunt, fish and shoot, the traditional pastimes of the wealthy upper classes. Large herds of red deer roamed in the north part of the island bordering West Loch Tarbert, and the area had many small hill-lochs rich with salmon and trout. The hotel owned the salmon-fishing rights to several of the lochs, and provided facilities for sea-trout fishing. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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