Beacon in the West: A Hundred Years of the Stornoway Trust

by Roger Hutchinson

In 1918 Lord Leverhulme bought the island of Lewis with ambitious plans to massively expand its fishing industry and increase its population.

In 1923, when his plans had failed, he offered it free of charge to the islanders in two parts. One part, which included impoverished rural areas, was economically unviable. But the other, based around the busy fishing port and administrative centre of Stornoway, was a different matter. In accepting Leverhulme's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780278306
• ISBN13: 9781780278308
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Birlinn
• Length: 224 Pages