Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 9 hours ago
In Part 1B Cathie relates how the family would travel around the Highlands by horse and cart. Her father would break horses in for forestry work, and pony trekking was also popular. But with the advent of tractors horses became less plentiful, so in the mid-fifties the family started coming to Uist, which was known for good horses. She explains the different methods of transporting horses across by boat from Berneray and Eriskay, before walking them to Lochmaddy. Horse boxes came later. To an eight year-old girl it seemed a free and healthy lifestyle.
Wordlinked transcript: multidict.net/cs/12572
Full summary and links here: guthan.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/cathie-laing-in-conversation
In Part 1B Cathie relates how the family would travel around the Highlands by horse and cart. Her father would break horses in for forestry work, and pony trekking was also popular. But with the advent of tractors horses became less plentiful, so in the mid-fifties the family started coming to Uist, which was known for good horses. She explains the different methods of transporting horses across by boat from Berneray and Eriskay, before walking them to Lochmaddy. Horse boxes came later. To an eight year-old girl it seemed a free and healthy lifestyle.
Wordlinked transcript: multidict.net/cs/12572
Full summary and links here: guthan.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/cathie-laing-in-conversation
