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1931
Local
school records from Kinlochmoidart show how life at the school at
Brunery took place. Public Record Office, Inverness
1931 Jackie MacDonald inscribed his name on the underside
of the archway at Kinlochmoidart Farm as did Colin Smart. Colin
was one of the Smart Family who lived at West Lodge. His brother
Neil was a piper who died in the First World War and is commemorated
in a Plaque in St Finan’s Church. John Dye records
1932 Inverness County Council correspondence regarding school
water supply and petition of protest from parents. Public Record
Office, Inverness
1936 George V died, followed by Edward VIII, who abdicated
before being crowned. George VI succeeded instead and ruled until
1952.
1937 Hugh MacDonald inscribed his name on the Kinlochmoidart
Farm archway and gave his address as Low Farm. This is the name
that Kinlochmoidart Farm had on the estate to distinguish it from
High Farm at Brunery and Home Farm at the estate house. (According
to Sir Nigel Vernon, Kinlochmoidart Farm was once called Kinacarra
Farm)
Also inscribed upon the archway was D MacKinnon who lived at Brunery
and had a brother Archie, who also worked at Kinlochmoidart Farm.
John Dye records
1939 Second World War.
1940 During the Second World War, the realisation grew that
there was a vital need for specially trained people if the tide
was to be turned against the Germans. In June 1940 General Ironside
authorised the use of Inverailort as the centre of special training
of guerrilla tactics. The whole of the peninsula was sealed off
by Lord Lovatt and access largely denied by the general public for
the duration. By July 1940 the Special Operations Executive was
set up at Inverailort - its headquarters were eventually moved to
Arisaig House. Wartime in Moidart, Jean Bowker
1945 “There being no fences and the common grazings
running for miles over the hills, it is the habit here to herd the
beasts. Prior to this the shielings were in use in these glens.
The walls of one bothan airigh are to be seen up in the hills
above Smirisary beside a peat-bog, and two others were on the high
plateau above Forsay and above Alissary. The stone walls were built
only two feet in height, and then timbers, filled with sods, completed
the building, while sods also formed the roof. There the lassies
from Glen Uig, Roshven, and Smirisary spent the summer weeks, and
the lads made frequent visits and brought down the butter and cheese.
The small enclosures to be seen beside the huts were temporary sheds
for young calves.” Mac’s Croft, Wendy Wood, page 97
1945 “…up the hill pass (from Glenuig, taking cattle
to the sales) and along the bridle path through the woods to Moidart,
and eight miles beyond that again before resting place for the night
could be reached….Up and down the stony path through the woods
wound the cavalcade; with the shimmer of Loch Moidart below and
the trees making a pattern on its silver brocade. By evening we
climbed over another hill and were slowly dropping down beside Loch
Shiel, with the sharp-peaked hill of Resipol rising from the brown
bogland on its shore.” Mac’s Croft, Wendy Wood, page56
1945 Glenmoidart sold by the Stewarts to “ a family
from Northamptonshire” Kinlochmoidart House, Stephen Jefferson
1995
1948 The adjoining Glenmoidart Estate remained with the Stewart
family until 1948. Kinlochmoidart House, Lochaber, Simon Green,
Country Life August 1998.
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