The four Slate Islands - Seil, Luing, Easdale and Belnahua - lie off the west coast of Scotland, just south of Oban. For centuries they exported roofing slates across the world, but their history goes back much further.
The four Slate Islands - Seil, Luing, Easdale and Belnahua - lie off the west coast of Scotland, just south of Oban. For centuries they exported roofing slates across the world, but their history goes back much further.
The Scottish Slate Islands Heritage Trust has a wealth of historical documents and photos, held in our Heritage Centre on Seil. This portal displays some of our Archives and the results of recent research.
8-2025: Kenneth Bell POW, in ARCHIVES E-M (Military) and NEW RESEARCH. His memories of liberation after three years as a Japanese prisoner of war.
8-2025: VJ Day: Forgotten Armies, in ARCHIVES E-M (Military) and NEW RESEARCH. As we mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, we remember three men who fought in South East Asia.
4-2025: Memorandum respecting the manner of working the Slate Quarries at Easdale, 27 August 1792, transcript and original in ARCHIVES P-S (Quarrying 1), from Argyll Estates Archives, by permission of the Duke of Argyll.
4-2025: Sergeant-Major James Irvine second photo added to the information sheet in ARCHIVES A-D (Argyll & Bute Artillery Volunteers.
10-2024: Sergeant-Major James Irvine photo and information in ARCHIVES A-D (Argyll & Bute Artillery Volunteers) and NEW RESEARCH, with our thanks to his great-grandson Eddie Wright in Canada.
6-2024: complete 1894 edition of Volunteer Regulations in ARCHIVES M-M (Military Archive). There are also shorter extracts from the 1878, 1891, 1893 and 1896 editions.
6-2024: John MacGillivray's paper Easdale, Origins of a Name in ARCHIVES S-S (Seil) and NEW RESEARCH.
6-2024: Poster Mary (Molly) Hill in ARCHIVES E-M (Military) and NEW RESEARCH.
6-2024: Leaflet 1944 Ready for D-Day in NEW RESEARCH.
5-2024: An update to The 1887 Rifle Range page of the Trust's website in NEW RESEARCH.
12-2023: Mike Shaw's paper Kilbrandon Houses 18th-21st Centuries in NEW RESEARCH.
12-2023: Police Report about the 1942 Sea Mine at Ellenabeich in ARCHIVES E-M (Military) and NEW RESEARCH.