Family life

Readers' favourite photographs, songs and recipesSnapshot: In front of a Highland peat stackThis is a photograph of my great-grandfather, John Cameron, a Highland shepherd, and his family. It must have been taken around 1904, as my late grandmother, Daisy Cameron (far left in a white pinafore), appears to be around four years old, and she was born in the first year of the 20th century.The Camerons lived in Craggie, an isolated corner of the remote Strath of Kildonan in Sutherland, in the north o...

Read full article Share article