Port Wemyss, Islay, Scotland-circa 1948

This is a 9 minute extract from 8mm movie footage taken my father around 1948. The extract is from a 1¼-hour original film of Islay, Argyll, Scotland. The full film shows much of the villages of Port Wemyss and Portnahaven and it's people of that time as well as other parts of the island. There are scenes of people going about their daily lives -- the postman, the milkman, the farmer lad, men and horses working the fields, the lighthouse boatmen, fishermen and water collection from the local well (there was no plumbing in the houses back then).
In this extract I have focused on the village of Port Wemyss.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Islay
• Argyll
• Scotland
• village
• vintage
• Scottish
• Port-Wemyss
• Rhinns
• Symphony
• Mendelssohn

[ianamacl]

Hi Brian,

Sorry for not being back to you sooner.

Do you know that one of your relatives appears in the videos...Islay 1948 - People About: Part 2 of 4 at 3m-21s. Is it Hugh? I'll check on that! He is making a fishing rod.

[patrickthebaker]

Brilliant footage!! Is there any of this footage near Ardnahoe? My granduncle worked for 7 years for a farmer in the bogs in Ardnahoe around this time. From Donegal, Ireland

[patrickthebaker]

Is there any of this footage near Ardnahoe? My granduncle worked for 7 years for a farmer in the bogs in Ardnahoe around this time.

[TheItachifan1]

im going here for summer holiday! my great aunts live there!

im so excited. loads of friends from glasgow and dumfries go there too!

[Pedy1968]

Very interesting...Thank you!

[RonaMacd1]

Just stumbled onto your site. Great work. Funny we just had my Dad's 85th birthday. He was from Port Wemyss and I spent many wonderful summers there. Hello to all who remember Donald Macdonald and Rona. Greetings from Canada!

Rona Macdonald

[kjwp45]

hey do u have the footage or a copy of the fortage im kyle wemyss fourth generation over from the boat and my dad is the third and id like a copy pease let me no

[islayboys05]

my gran still lives down here. mary mckechnie, i used to live here aswell untill 1999, and was down today and its virtually then same

[alexairlie]

excellent !

[marcobuchel]

Its Wemyss 8-|

[rmgj]

What a wonderful video, bless Scotland, what oh so very harsh conditions to live in, love.