Leaving

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Mar 28, 2021

On SS Hebrides crossing the Minch in 1912: “the little girl is of about 13 – Morag – has won a bursary and is going to school in Glasgow – to live in lodgings with utter strangers. This is the first time she has been on a steamer – she has never seen a train – never seen a tree – never seen a town – and has never seen her fellow travellers before” Photo from A Hebridean Journey: the Travel Diary of Isabell Burton MacKenzie 

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