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13 years ago
A few memories here of the dismantling of the mine installations (scroll down the page).

Project Title: The Crofters And The Second World War

http://www.rememberingscotlandatwar.org.uk/Accessible/Exhibition/189/The-War-Effort-A-cuideachadh-a-chogaidh 




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Fort William
Morrisey
13 years ago
Interesting read - thanks for that. Where can i get hold of those knitting patterns, gotta be be something that any self respecting mine explorer will be wearing this winter! :thumbsup:

if anyone's interested here's a link to some photos i took up at Raasay back in May this year
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/b3tarev3/sets/72157629614668258/ 
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If we still had CEEFAX then you could have downloaded the knitting patterns direct to your knitting machine with their experimental Teleknitware system.


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Fort William
Cat_Bones
13 years ago
"Morrisey" wrote:

Interesting read - thanks for that. Where can i get hold of those knitting patterns, gotta be be something that any self respecting mine explorer will be wearing this winter! :thumbsup:

if anyone's interested here's a link to some photos i took up at Raasay back in May this year
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/b3tarev3/sets/72157629614668258/ 



Nice photos.

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Is that a swastika on the anchor?!?!

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Morrisey
13 years ago
Yes it is a swastika on the anchor, it was the trade mark for W.L Byers & Co of Sunderland whom manufactured anchors. The swastika was originally and still is a symbol of good luck.
simonrail
13 years ago
Not Good Luck for the Nazis then!
Yes, I'll have it - what is it?
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There was a discussion on another site about some radisseurs in a field near Aviemore with a swastika on them. Various comments later posted about them seen elsewhere and a search on the web brings up more references.

http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/forum/m-1318343034/s-44/highlight-fence/ 


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Fort William
Cat_Bones
13 years ago
"Morrisey" wrote:

Yes it is a swastika on the anchor, it was the trade mark for W.L Byers & Co of Sunderland whom manufactured anchors. The swastika was originally and still is a symbol of good luck.



Thanks Morrisey. I knew that the symbol was originally a hindu/sanskrit symbol... hadn't ever seen it used in this context though. I'd assumed that it was a WWII relic rather than anything to do with the mining!
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13 years ago
Swastikas are interesting, apparently a possible representation of the Sun originally, in some form of proto pictographical writing, it's a great shame that the Nazis took the symbol and gave it a bad name.
Anyway, I was on Skye a while back, apparently the mines themselves aren't accessible, though I may be wrong. There are surface remains though. Not much on aditnow on Scottish mines, probably because they are in less concentration and they're no-where near as well known as those in England and Wales.
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