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Peat is cut and stacked until required in the home - this clips shows the processes involved. Filmed at Achriesgill, Sutherland. (clip) [74960195]

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Women’s work at everyday life in the crofting community of Achriesgill in Sutherland. Women collect water from the spring in buckets, feed the hens, cleaning oil lamps. (clip) [74960198]

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Locations:

  • Highlands, the

Subjects:

  • Fish and fishing
  • Agriculture

Decade:

  • 1940s

Title: CROFTERS

Reference number: 0120

Date: 1945

Director: d. Ralph Keene

Sponsor: MOI with the Ministry of Agriculture

Production company: Greenpark Productions

Sound: sound

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 22.00 mins

Genre: sponsored

Description: A look at everyday life in the crofting community of Achriesgill in Sutherland.

This title is available to buy on DVD and VHS online from Panamint Cinema at http://www.panamint.co.uk. Part of compilation entitled THE GLEN IS OURS, also featuring refs. 0486 and 0281 [last accessed 16/6/2008].

Credits: [Pattern of Britain Series]
[Presented by the MOI with the Ministry of Agriculture]
[A Greenpark Production (Green Park Unit of Verity Films)]
[associate p. Edgar Anstey; d. Ralph Keene; ed. Dennis Hopper; ph. Peter Hennessy; musical score Dennis Blood; conductor John Hollingsworth]

Shotlist: No credits. Shots in and around Achriesgill, a crofting community in Sutherland (.44); mail van arrives from Lairg carrying mail, people and stores (2.54); Shots of Mrs MacKay, the shopkeeper, and her husband, delivering to distant crofts in his van (3.46); Shots of schoolmistress, minister and district nurse (4.44); Shots of derelict crofts contrasted with modern, solid two-storey houses. Brief details of crops (5.64); Crofters get together to gather sheep from the hills. Men and dogs drive flock into pens (10.55); Sheep are sheared with hand shears, the fleeces are rolled up and stored (12.24); Cows are herded to grazing ground after milking (13.18); Women carrying water from a spring in buckets. Women washing clothes in wooden tubs, gathering eggs, and cleaning oil lamps (14.25); Peat is cut and stacked until required in the home (15.48); Shots of a crofter working as a ghillie for a tourist. Shots of others working on the roads under government contracts. Boat repairs. Lobster fishing in a small boat (17.43); Sheep are gathered in again and dipped (20.05); Shots of hay being cut with scythes. The hay is gathered up and built into haystacks (22.25).


Running time approx 22 minutes

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