The Wee Hoose (Small house)
Peter Black

The Wee Hoose (Small house)

A BBC show featuring this said that "it was built on Loch Shin near Lairg in 1824 by poacher Jock Broon who was gifted land by a local laird in return for being taught how to distil whisky. Broon is said to have built the ‘wee hoose’ to mark his new status as a landowner but died shortly afterwards.
Location
Lairg, Sutherland, NW Scotland
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Bronica SQ-B with PS 80mm lens
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Not recorded
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2011 Fuji Acros in replenished XTOL
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died shortly afterwards when he shot himself in the foot while out hunting, the story goes.

“His Wee Hoose remains his legacy,” viewers were told.

However, Broons Hoose was built only 20 years ago as a float for the Lairg Gala. It was taken to the island by boat at the end of the festivities and has since become a landmark loved by locals and tourists alike. Lairg postman Lindsay Macdonald helped make the house - which has been rebuilt twice after being destroyed by bad weather - and create the local legend of Jock Broon. Not so romantic, but lots more believable. :smile:
 
Nice story. I looked at the picture and was tempted to say that without the scale provided by the other houses it could almost be a table top shot of a toy house made to look real. In some ways the true story hints at a kind of "toy story"
 

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