Wick, Scotland is where the rail line ends and the document describes the scenery around the town including the Wick River, harbor, and "world's shortest street." It discusses the area's history of fishing and herring industry. Photos show old buildings, the harbor, and countryside including the farmstead where the author's great-grandfather's croft was located in Milton. Local residents shared stories and photos with the author about what the area and farming life was like when his grandfather lived there.

1. Scot Rail
Wick
platform
sign

2. Wick station is the end of the rail line

4. Train Station (outside)

5. Croft/
farm out
this way
about
2km to
Milton
area

6. Walking
down
from train
to town

7. Wick river below and
straight ahead is the sea

8. Main street Wick (Bridge St)

9. Wick River (train station
300m to top left)

11. After you go through main street
this is turning left up the hill to
another Church of Scotland

14. Bagpipe Hall

15. Looking back down main
street toward bridge.
We
stayed in
B & B
here

19. Wick harbor and port (Around Grandads
time of leaving Wick herring boats
crowded two port areas on right)

21. OLD Whalf storage buildings

22. Whalf directly behind these buildings

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26. Next 4 photos old buildings not far
from wharf

27. W
Same building as
seen in next two
photos

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30. W

31. World’s
shortest
street

33. W
Stayed in B & B on Bridge St
Worlds shortest street

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Worlds shortest street

35. Worlds shortest street
Church of Scotland
(3rd one we saw)

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Worlds shortest street

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39. Harbour

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41. History shows around Granddads
departure time, fishing (herring) was
a BIG industry for 6 months of the
year. Fishing started due to a famine
then grew! In reading a few of the
local history books it appears influx
of migrant workers made Wick “sin
city”

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43. Milton

44. Gaultiquoy croft according to Uncle Daves family
history research was our grest grandfathers croft.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croft
Croft (land), an area of land with a crofter's dwelling,
used for crofting (small-scale food production).

45. Several books in
Wick Historical
library say, Weirs
originally came
from Norway
around 1100. The
list to the right is a
census taken
when Granddad
would probably
have been in his
teens.

46. We got a taxi out and looked around the farming
area where Grandad would have grown up.

47. This stone building was
probably similar to one
on Granddads parents
croft/farm. This
particular one was just
up the road but many
similar ones exist

49. Gaultiquoy today.
Our great
grandparents old
buildings are gone
and now lifestyle
blocks exist with new
houses on site

50. Gaultiquoy today

51. Early April 2014 and spring had arrived but a cool breeze blew in off the North Sea

54. We bumped into Bill
Bruce in Milton when
we asked if we could
jump his fence and
take some photos. He
was very kind and
introduced us to
Nancy and got his car
out and took us up to
the original farmstead.
A Doctor has now built
a new house there and
we chatted with him
for a bit. We took
photos from the house
site and Bruce pointed
out you could see the
Orkney Islands off the
northern tip of
Scotland. Photos don’t
show it as well as the
naked eye could see.

55. Bill introduced us to Nancy who grew
up here and knew Granddads nieces
and nephews. She had photos and a
newspaper clipping from when Uncle
Dave, Uncle Jim and Dad visited.

56. Looking East nor-east
to Wick. Beyond Wick
is the North Sea.

57. Looking northeast, Milton housing
seen here from homestead and
outskirts of Wick top right

58. Looking North from new
house. Orkney Islands
barely visible in photo
These are building we
wanted to photo when
we asked Bill Bruce if we
could jump the fence

59. Zoomed in to the North to
try and see in the haze
Orkney Islands better

60. Looking West

63. New house on
farmstead site