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Pupils from Sgoil an Taobh Siar – West Side Primary School – in Barvas, Lewis, are taking up their new roles as Historic Scotland junior tour guides at the Arnol Blackhouse.

Over the past three months,  20 pupils from primary five, six and seven, have been discovering more about the islands’ past and its blackhouses, and the life of the Hebridean crofters who once called them  home.

As part of their guiding roles at the blackhouse, the pupils will be stepping back in time to take  on the characters of their 1950s counterparts, as they offer tours to visiting school groups, providing an insight into what island life might have been like more than 60 years ago.

These special tours, run entirely by the pupils, which will involve Gaelic language, will explore what life was like in the blackhouse, with its open peat fires and livestock and family under one roof, and compare this to the 1950s whitehouse which represented a move away from the old way of life.

Primary pupils take on guiding role at historic site

14 May 2015