On the Easel – Mon 5th December 2011
December 5, 2011 at 4:46 pm , by admin
“Herring Lassies at the Harbour wall” – Work in Progress, Oil on Canvas, 48 x 36 inches. This is the end of the 2nd painting, will put aside to dry before focusing on details and color.
The last age group of girls from the Isle of Lewis that participated in the gutting and packing of herring as beginners or coilers as they were called, were those who were born in the early 1920s and, who like many generations before them, got their first job opportunity at the herring gutting after they left school at 14 years old, which was the school leaving age then.
Herring Lassie information is taken from documents from the Angus Mcleod Archive, a great resource for historical information of the Scottish Highlands and Islands. http://www.angusmacleodarchive.org.uk/
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