Wick
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Wick, Scotland is where the rail line ends and the document describes the scenery around the town including the Wick River, harbor, and "world's shortest street." It discusses the area's history of fishing and herring industry. Photos show old buildings, the harbor, and countryside including the farmstead where the author's great-grandfather's croft was located in Milton. Local residents shared stories and photos with the author about what the area and farming life was like when his grandfather lived there.
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Wick
- 2. Wick station is the end of the rail line
- 5. Croft/ farm out this way about 2km to Milton area
- 7. Wick river below and straight ahead is the sea
- 8. Main street Wick (Bridge St)
- 9. Wick River (train station 300m to top left)
- 11. After you go through main street this is turning left up the hill to another Church of Scotland
- 14. Bagpipe Hall
- 15. Looking back down main street toward bridge. We stayed in B & B here
- 19. Wick harbor and port (Around Grandads time of leaving Wick herring boats crowded two port areas on right)
- 21. OLD Whalf storage buildings
- 22. Whalf directly behind these buildings
- 23. W
- 24. W
- 25. W
- 26. Next 4 photos old buildings not far from wharf
- 27. W Same building as seen in next two photos
- 28. W
- 30. W
- 33. W Stayed in B & B on Bridge St Worlds shortest street
- 35. Worlds shortest street Church of Scotland (3rd one we saw)
- 37. W
- 38. W
- 39. Harbour
- 40. W
- 41. History shows around Granddads departure time, fishing (herring) was a BIG industry for 6 months of the year. Fishing started due to a famine then grew! In reading a few of the local history books it appears influx of migrant workers made Wick sin city
- 42. W
- 43. Milton
- 44. Gaultiquoy croft according to Uncle Daves family history research was our grest grandfathers croft. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croft Croft (land), an area of land with a crofter's dwelling, used for crofting (small-scale food production).
- 45. Several books in Wick Historical library say, Weirs originally came from Norway around 1100. The list to the right is a census taken when Granddad would probably have been in his teens.
- 46. We got a taxi out and looked around the farming area where Grandad would have grown up.
- 47. This stone building was probably similar to one on Granddads parents croft/farm. This particular one was just up the road but many similar ones exist
- 49. Gaultiquoy today. Our great grandparents old buildings are gone and now lifestyle blocks exist with new houses on site
- 50. Gaultiquoy today
- 51. Early April 2014 and spring had arrived but a cool breeze blew in off the North Sea
- 54. We bumped into Bill Bruce in Milton when we asked if we could jump his fence and take some photos. He was very kind and introduced us to Nancy and got his car out and took us up to the original farmstead. A Doctor has now built a new house there and we chatted with him for a bit. We took photos from the house site and Bruce pointed out you could see the Orkney Islands off the northern tip of Scotland. Photos dont show it as well as the naked eye could see.
- 55. Bill introduced us to Nancy who grew up here and knew Granddads nieces and nephews. She had photos and a newspaper clipping from when Uncle Dave, Uncle Jim and Dad visited.
- 56. Looking East nor-east to Wick. Beyond Wick is the North Sea.
- 57. Looking northeast, Milton housing seen here from homestead and outskirts of Wick top right
- 58. Looking North from new house. Orkney Islands barely visible in photo These are building we wanted to photo when we asked Bill Bruce if we could jump the fence
- 59. Zoomed in to the North to try and see in the haze Orkney Islands better
- 60. Looking West
- 63. New house on farmstead site