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The Soap Man

Page 29

by Roger Hutchinson


  Smiles, Samuel 6

  Smith, Calum 63, 64, 89, 106, 107, 143, 192, 203, 213

  Smith, Roderick 139

  Solomon Islands 3, 50, 51, 52, 54, 59

  South Uist, island of 77, 115, 116

  St Kilda 148, 149

  Stornoway Gazette 65, 66, 68, 70, 75, 107, 157, 182, 185, 192, 207, 218

  Stornoway Pier and Harbour Commission 86, 110, 111, 159

  Stornoway Town Council 74, 79, 88, 100, 200, 203, 204, 205, 209, 210, 215

  Stornoway Trust 203, 209, 210, 215, 216, 227

  Sutherland, Halliday 153, 168, 225

  Tarbert 93, 104, 105, 144, 145, 146, 164, 169, 172, 173, 174, 175, 195, 219, 220, 221

  Tate, Henry 8

  Times, The 59

  Tolsta 12, 21, 37, 60, 64, 86, 104, 118, 134, 153, 168, 196, 203, 216, 217, 227

  Tong 60, 117, 118, 119, 122, 151, 152, 216, 227

  Uig, parish of 12, 19, 37, 43, 46, 59, 60, 61, 104, 113, 130, 133, 137, 196, 215, 220, 222

  Victoria, Queen 2, 31

  Watson, Angus 22, 26, 27, 29

  Wenlock, Lieutenant W B 104

  White, Reverend Alex 195, 196

  Williams, Dr Harley 47, 55, 200

  Wilson, Thomas 132

  World War, First 61, 64, 157, 184, 227

  William Hesketh Lever in 1877 at the age of twenty-six

  A new kind of packaging: Sunlight Soap aims for the working man’s wife (Unilever Information Services, Port Sunlight Heritage Centre)

  ‘There’s nothing there but slavery’ workaday scenes from Port Sunlight

  Bringing home the peats in Lewis

  The battle of Aignish, 1888

  A busy mercantile centre: South Beach Street in Stornoway in the early 1900s (The University Library, St Andrews)

  Cottars’ cottages on the outskirts of Stornoway, 1900

  Members of the Lewis Royal Naval reserve, winners of the Fleet Rowing Race in 1916 (National Library of Scotland)

  Baron Leverhulme of Bolton-le-Moors in full Masonic costume as Junior Grand Warden of England, 1918 (Lady Lever Art Gallery)

  Lews Castle from Stornoway harbour

  The windswept lighthouse at the Butt of Lewis

  The new laird of Lewis: Leverhulme in 1919

  Homes fit for heroes: Leverhulme houses in Stornoway

  Machair grazing at Coll, north of Stornoway, following resettlement

  Obbe in South Harris shortly before being renamed Leverburgh

  Tarbert, the main township in Harris

  Sir Harry Lauder, Lord Leverhulme and Provost Roderick Smith at the opening of Stornoway’s new bowling green in 1922

  The Tarbert Hotel in Harris, with one of the estate’s Ford motor cars parked outside

  Lord Leverhulme in 1919

  A prayer aboard the Metagama before her departure for the New World in April 1923

  The Hebrideans are coming: Canadian newspapers anticipate the depopulation of the islands (Toronto Star)

  The opening ceremony at the Lady Lever Art Gallery, 16 December 1922

  Viscount Leverhulme of the Western Isles

  The castle on the hill

 

 

 


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