ID:QZP40_CARD_2472DESCRIPTION:The small croft houses of Bayfield are dotted along the shore, below the slopes of the wooded Meall, or Lump, a peninsula jutting out into Portree Bay and laid out with shrubs and trees in the 1830s. In the 1851 census, the row of houses was registered as Sligneach, "shelly" in Gaelic, but thereafter was known as Bayfield. It was also the location of a salmon fishing station and the drying greens for nets are still there, although the strips of land behind each house have since been absorbed into the site of the hospital. Portree had just begun to expand into the surrounding countryside, with the first council house developments built on what was then the outskirts of the village, visible on the leftPLACENAME:PortreeDISTRICT:SkyeOLD COUNTY/PARISH:INVERNESS: PortreePERIOD:1930s; 1940sSOURCE:Highland LibrariesCOLLECTION:Highland Libraries' Postcard CollectionAsset ID:34377KEYWORDS:
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