St Kilda

Pictures taken on Chris’s first visit to St Kilda in 1957

Boreray group
Conachair and Soay
Soay, Cambir and Carn Mhor
Soay, Boreray in the distance
Lowering small boat from the deck of the Turquoise
Stern of the Turquoise in Village Bay
Cleit and oil drums: energy-stores old and new
RAF equipment in the village, Dun in the background
Building the radar station
Radar building on Ruival under construction
RAF tented camp and shore from above
Ruins of horned dwelling
The village from the south-west and view up the Gap
Cleits above village street
Soay sheep in village
Mediaeval village and cleats
Village Bay with RAF camp during Operation Hardrock
RAF camp from Oiseval, July 1957

Photographs taken on later visits to St Kilda, most when Chris returned in the summer of 1966 for the making of St Kilda, the Lonely Islands

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