Monday, April 19, 2010

2010 Galley Heads from Shetland UHA's

After a great deal of effort I have finally managed to get a photo of the Galley Heads from all 10 of the UHA's. Moira Stevenson kindly supplied the Nesting Galley photo. These are just the Galley Heads but its interesting to compare them. Some of the country UHA's use two Galleys - a 'good' galley thats kept from year to year and a 'burning' galley of a much simpler design, or the galley head is removed and a simple galley head replacement is fitted - Norwick, Uyeasound, Delting and Bressay do this. Cullivoe, Northmavine, Nesting & Girlsta, Scalloway, South Mainland and Lerwick build a new Galley each year.

Lerwick - Avie Jane
















Northmavine - Baresark


















Cullivoe - Maisie June
















South Mainland - Skidbladnir


















Uyeasound - Engistou


















Norwick - Farfarer






















Delting - Elka


















Nesting and Girlsta - Vilhjalmr
















Scalloway - Hame Lea



















Bressay - BryniJen

2 comments:

  1. I remember the peerie gallies head seemed to always go missing just before it was torched, or was that may imagination?

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  2. I believe youre right shetlandpeat - that head is kept from year to year.

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