Isle of Lewis Music Video

Song "Eilean Leòdhais Ge Fada Thriall Mi" written by Colonel Iain MacGregor who was born in Stornoway 1848. He wrote this song homesick for Lewis while deployed to India. Sung brilliantly here by Donald MacRae.

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Footage drawn from following videos:

Isle of Lewis 1970 (Around Scotland)
   • Isle of Lewis 1970 (Around Scotland)  

Last Batch Of British Troops Leave India (1948) | British Pathé
   • Last Batch Of British Troops Leave India (...  

North Tolsta 1967
   • North Tolsta 1967  

Around Stornoway
   • Around Stornoway  

On The Road - Stornoway
   • Documentary: On the Road - Stornoway Part ...  

Stornoway 1964 (footage by Ken Holgate, provided by Stornoway Historical Society)
   • Stornoway 1964  

The Corncrake and the Croft
   • The Corncrake and the Croft  

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