Following on from my last two posts in this blog, suggesting
that Skye has no proper ‘villages’ – I can now sense indignation from residents
of at least a couple of other locations on the island who may consider that
they inhabit a ‘village’.
So, for this post, I offer you one settlement I have thus
far missed - Struan.
Struan’s greatest claim to ‘village’ status will be that it
has a ‘Village Green’. This has to be
unique on Skye… (Just wait for the howls of indignation from Kyleakin…) Today,
there is a strong local community in Struan, and an annual Gala is held on the
green – when the wind doesn’t threaten to destroy the marquee.
At present, Struan also has a shop with Post Office
facilities, a café, a church, a primary school, and INDUSTRY – yes, a manufacturer
of high quality outdoor clothing has their business base in Struan.
But there is no village hall… and for my definition of a
village – there has to be a village hall.
Sorry Struan!
Here are a few of my pictures of the settlement (village??) of
Struan, Isle of Skye …
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| Struan Shop - no-one said it had to be pretty... |
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| Struan War Memorial - Quite rightly maintained in immaculate condition |
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| Information plaques and seating within a stone structure on the village green. In the background is Struan's industrial centre - the premises of Cioch Clothing |
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| The Bracadale Free Church, Struan. A typically austere Skye church. |
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| Struan Village Green |
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| Struan Cafe, also houses a secondhand bookshop |
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| The garage closed last year |
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| Struan Primary School. Still open for now, but with only four pupils on roll, how can it survive? |
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| Someone parked a really nice Jaguar by the green... I wonder whose it is? |
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