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the Scottish Archive of Building Skills online portal

The Scottish Archive of Building Skills is a collaboration between Historic Scotland’s Technical Conservation Group, Learn Direct and Build, the Scottish Screen Archive and the School of Scottish Studies. It is an online archive which aims to collate film footage and recorded sound testimony relating to Scotland’s traditional building skills and using this to create a unique resource to aid our understanding of the built environment, and the skills which have created it.

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WELCOME | 20 May 2012

Recently Added Material

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Steel and Engineering

Creation Date: 1960

Dated Added: 02/11/2009

Description:
Shots of the “Empress of Britain” leaving Greenock for Canada and of the interior of the Parkhead steel works.

They Made The Land

Creation Date: 1938

Dated Added: 03/11/2009

Description:
Shots of thatched houses, digging turf and detailed construction of a field drain.

Eilean An Fhraoich (Isle of Lewis)

Creation Date: 1937

Dated Added: 03/11/2009

Description:
Scenes of life in the Outer Hebrides showing herring fishing, crofting, cutting peat, and roof thatching. The Lewis Hospital Carnival is also featured with a pipe band, floats and a display of Highland dancing.