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
I remember the peerie gallies head seemed to always go missing just before it was torched, or was that may imagination?
ReplyDeleteI believe youre right shetlandpeat - that head is kept from year to year.
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