20244: Macaulay Farm, Lochs Road, Stornoway

The farm was owned by the Macaulay Institute and used as a demonstrator for converting peat moor to arable land. In the late 1920s around 50 acres of moorland was cultivated and successfully harvested crops included oats, rye, mashlum, hay, potatoes, cabbage and even celery.

In 1943 Charles Hunter was a tenant farmer to the Stornoway Trust. He died in 1950.

In 2010 a Macaulay College was set up on the site.

Information obtained from SY Gone By