Pictures - Agriculture - Crofting

Shipping lambs from Mainlands Pier, Voe, Dunrossness.

The capture of a pod of caain whales like this was an important bonus to the community.

Woman harrowing with Shetland pony.

Crofthouse interior, est. late 19th century.

Shelling mussels for bait

Weaving, ca 1900

Minding the baby, ca 1900

Rooin Sheep

Caain Sheep

Coles of hay

Croft interior ca 1905

Old Shetland Crofthose

Winnowin corn

Corn yard

Egg hunting

Peat casting

Cutting peats

Carrying peat with a pony

Flitting Peats by Boat, Fetlar

Burning kelp on the beach at Brough, Whalsay, below the Brough Kirk. The persons ar L to R, Gracie Williamson, Janet Hutchison, Barbara Hutchison and the child is Willie Hutchison.

Catalogue of entries for Walls Show held at Brewster, 1949.

Shetland Bismars

Shetland Plow

Shetland Scythe

Cows on the hill on the road to Sullom

Mother and calf at George Nicolsons farm in Cunningsburgh.

Sheep on a hillside

Horny ram

Sheep

Coles of hay

Ponies at the "Burn of Quoys", Catfirth, South Nesting.

Shetland stooks

Planticrubs