{"id":1058,"date":"2013-10-02T06:31:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T06:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2013-10-02T06:32:32","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T06:32:32","slug":"industries-come-and-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/?p=1058","title":{"rendered":"Work Comes and Goes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1057\" style=\"width: 178px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kelp-on-Berneray.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1057\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1057\" alt=\"Stones laid in a pattern in order to dry seaweed\" src=\"http:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kelp-on-Berneray-168x300.jpg\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kelp-on-Berneray-168x300.jpg 168w, https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kelp-on-Berneray-196x350.jpg 196w, https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kelp-on-Berneray.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1057\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stones laid in a pattern in order to dry seaweed<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Walking around <strong>Berneray<\/strong> gives many vistas &#8211; for although only three miles long and two miles wide, it does have an accessible coastline that&#8217;s virtually ten miles in distance. \u00a0One is to be found in the south-west corner at Braighe na Ceilp where, in the 1840s, there was a flourishing trade in the production of <strong>kelp<\/strong>. Stones (pictured here) were laid in a rectangular pattern in order to dry seaweed on an exposed part of the shore.<\/p>\n<p>The population of the island rose to 712 in 1841, but suddenly the industry declined, coupled with &#8216;clearances&#8217;, and by 1851 the <strong>decline<\/strong> to 410 was severe. The &#8216;Stop \/ Go&#8217; nature of economic development is evident in this now neglected corner of the island.<\/p>\n<p>It would be interesting to compile a list of the ways in which people have made (or tried to) make a living on an island such as Berneray during, say, the last 200 years. Has the coming of <strong>broadband<\/strong>, which has revolutionised working practices, brought more livelihoods? Anyway, it&#8217;s a far cry from seaweed collecting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking around Berneray gives many vistas &#8211; for although only three miles long and two miles wide, it does have an accessible coastline that&#8217;s virtually ten miles in distance. \u00a0One is to be found in the south-west corner at Braighe na Ceilp where, in the 1840s, there was a flourishing trade in the production of <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/?p=1058\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-explore-beyond-berneray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1065,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions\/1065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}