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A 2/4 march and a 6/8 march played by a fiddle orchestra. The tunes are 'Father John MacMillan of Barra' and 'The MacNeils of Ugadale'.

Donald Sinclair's Sinclair and MacNeil ancestors from Barra. Donald Sinclair is descended not from the Caithness Sinclairs but the Barra Sinclairs. His distant ancestor was a Barra man called MacN...

Drinking on Barra, especially during the Second World War. There was no source of drink on Vatersay. Men would go across to Barra to drink, and some of them were lost from boats when they were com...

Attitudes to incomers in Barra, Vatersay, Falkland, and Kingskettle. Flora Brown told Ray Fisher that she had a hard time on Vatersay after she married an Englishman. Morag Fisher doesn't remember...

Duncan Williamson diddles 'John MacMillan of Barra' and 'Sleepy Maggie'. Mention of a composition of his own called 'The Old Man of the Moor'.

The contributor's relatives caught typhoid in Barra and a priest tended to some of them. There was a contagious fever in Barra. The contributor thinks it was typhoid. Her granny visited a sick man...

History of the Sinclairs in Barra, an account of the contributor's family history, and some local wedding customs. The contributor gives an account of the history of the Sinclairs in Barra. They o...

The barter economy in Barra in wartime and afterwards; funny story about cast-off clothes. During the war years, people in service were given cast-offs by their employers, and clothes were often s...

Anecdotes about clothes sent to Barra; the barter system in the Hebrides; meanness. Morag Fisher sent money home to Vatersay when she went away to work as a girl. She details how she divided up he...

Mrs Fisher's parents' employment away from Barra, in fish-gutting and Glasgow docks. When Morag Fisher was a child her mother worked at fish-gutting on Barra in the summer, then following the flee...