Foula

[Mark]

Just watched a black and white film featuring Corporal Fraser. Apart from featuring the great man it showed off a great deal of the Island of Foula.

Just read a little bit about the island, quite an interesting place.

[Fingal]

Just watched a black and white film featuring Corporal Fraser. Apart from featuring the great man it showed off a great deal of the Island of Foula.

Just read a little bit about the island, quite an interesting place.

Some years ago I sailed with a young man who lived on Foula. He was somewhat at a loss when asked to boil some eggs. The conversation went:
"Don't you have hens on Foula?"
"Well, we did have some once but we forgot to put them in the henhouse one night. There was a gale that night and they blew away."

[Telo]

The Edge of the World. The British Film Institute DVD of the film also includes 70s BBC footage of Michael Powell and John Laurie etc making a return visit to Foula, and footage from 1923 and 1928 of St Kilda.

[claymore]

Is that the one you were in?

[BlowingOldBoots]

Foula, pah!

[Mark]

Some years ago I sailed with a young man who lived on Foula.

Presumably he was quite a large proportion of the population!

[Mark]

The Edge of the World. The British Film Institute DVD of the film also includes 70s BBC footage of Michael Powell and John Laurie etc making a return visit to Foula, and footage from 1923 and 1928 of St Kilda.

Thanks, so you got there way before me, wonder how I missed that thread.

Anyway I must have the documentary and can't find it online so I've invested a tenner in the DVD. I reckon I've bought 4 DVDs in the last ten years, and two of them have been recommended on Blue Moment which says something.

Will have a look for the book, right up my street.