Jura Lives

The Isle of Jura's Oral History Project.
Creating an island archive of living memories and stories. With few people, some visitors, and many deer, it's a way of life that we hope to capture - you will be able to read how the project is going, hear clips from interviews, see documentary materials and join in here. The project is happily funded by grants from Argyll and the Islands LEADER 2007-2013 programme, the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Isle of Jura Development Trust. 
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This scythe is as big as a man. It’s stashed in the rafters in Mary’s byre up at Keils.  The byre there is used for storage now; a good shelf has been created on top of the concrete stall dividers with left-over roofing sheets from the new shed.

Next door is the old byre, where the divides between the stalls are propped up flag stones, rather than cast concrete. There is still fragrant straw on the floor in there, and it feels incredibly cosy in spite of there being no windows in, and some peripheral damage to the roof. By the red door are the tarpaulins they used to use to cover the haystacks.

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