General view
SC 746917
Description General view
Date 1900
Collection Papers of Erskine Beveridge, antiquarian, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 746917
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of IN 922
Scope and Content Tarbert, 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. The Victorian photographer, Erskine Beveridge, photographed the village in 1900. Tarbert, set against a bleak landscape of metamorphic rock and sparse vegetation, consists of a main street, lined on one side with traditional 19th-century harled and whitewashed houses and cottages which overlook East Loch Tarbert. At the far end (left) is the Tarbert Hotel, a large 19th-century country house that catered for guests who came to the island to fish for sea-trout or salmon. Although Tarbert, which in Gaelic means 'a narrow isthmus', was the largest settlement on Harris, it was small, consisting of two churches, a post office, school, hotel, and some stores and workshops for fishermen. In the 19th century it developed as a ferry port for the packet service (mail-boats and passenger ships) that sailed from Uig in Skye. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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