During the St Kilda Club Reunion on Saturday 19th November we were very pleased to share a short message from Philip Long thanking The St Kilda Club for all their hard work over the past 50 years. In particular, Philip mentions the £80,000 we were thrilled to raise...
The below PDF is the proposed constitution for the St Kilda Club SCIO, along with two resolutions. All of these documents are for consideration at the St Kilda Club Company SC246110 AGM on the 9th November where we are hoping to sign them off. Any queries about these...
We were delighted to be asked by Susan Bain from the National Trust for Scotland (NTS) to have an input on the St Kilda World Heritage Site Management Plan 2022-2032. The Islands are owned by the NTS and so they have overall responsibility for management of the...
On 29th August 2020 the St Kilda Club hosted an online event to commemorate the evacuation of St Kilda in 1930. The event was in association with the National Trust for Scotland and was a celebration of St Kildan life and its legacy. There were a range of musicians...
Road Building To get vehicles and equipment to the radar station site, the squadron had to lay four miles of road up steep terrain from the base to the top of Mullach Sgar and Mullach Mor.A 60 foot bridge was built to allow equipment and materials to reach the site of...
LCT L4041 beached in the Village Bay Landing Craft Tank L4041 (RASCV/HMAV Abbeville) ran aground at Village Bay in St Kilda for three days in 1957. It was subsequently refloated. The following photos show the beached craft.Come back soon for Part 4...
Landing craft – the only way to travel! John and the rest of 5004 Airfield Squadron arrived on St Kilda on Landing Craft Tank (LCT) – the winds around the islands made flying in too risky.Travel on, and operation of, a Landing Craft Tank comes, however, with its own...
We are very privileged to be able to share the story of Senior Aircraftman (SAC) John Martin Abbott and his time on St Kilda. John’s family has shared some of his photos and experiences from that time and we will be serialising them on our blog for all to enjoy. John...
Lost But Not Forgotten is a short film about a man out of place in the modern world, struggling to hold on to memories of a home he lost long ago. Drawing from the incredible history of St Kilda, this short film serves as a...
Saturday was a day off for the work party and after a little morning mist, it turned in a beautiful hot sunny day. Pete and I took seven of the work party over to the Tunnel. When we got there, sadly we couldn’t go in as there has been a roof collapse over the winter....