Comments on: Captain Fraser’s Folly, Uig, Isle of Skye. https://thefollyflaneuse.com/captain-frasers-folly-uig-isle-of-skye/ Rambles to, and ramblings about, Follies and Garden and Landscape Ornament. Mon, 07 Apr 2025 13:33:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Destination: Highland Council Part 3 - Travel with Sarah Sarber https://thefollyflaneuse.com/captain-frasers-folly-uig-isle-of-skye/#comment-19385 Mon, 07 Apr 2025 13:33:33 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=13725#comment-19385 […] Uig Tower […]

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/captain-frasers-folly-uig-isle-of-skye/#comment-16763 Sat, 30 Nov 2024 18:38:44 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=13725#comment-16763 In reply to John Fox.

Thank you John. I would be delighted if anyone in the Facebook group can add to the history of the tower. I appreciate you sharing the post.

]]> By: John Fox https://thefollyflaneuse.com/captain-frasers-folly-uig-isle-of-skye/#comment-16762 Sat, 30 Nov 2024 18:30:56 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=13725#comment-16762 Great post! I’ve posted a link to it in this Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/747529769396311/permalink/1763955304420414/

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/captain-frasers-folly-uig-isle-of-skye/#comment-16761 Sat, 30 Nov 2024 18:26:33 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=13725#comment-16761 In reply to TOM GARDNER.

Hello Tom. I agree, it is quite a challenge to furnish a round tower. But Mr Ross looks like the kind of man who could get things done.

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/captain-frasers-folly-uig-isle-of-skye/#comment-16760 Sat, 30 Nov 2024 18:23:26 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=13725#comment-16760 In reply to Catherine Parker.

Thank you for sharing this link, Catherine. How Hill Tower, like everything at Studley, is fascinating.

]]> By: TOM GARDNER https://thefollyflaneuse.com/captain-frasers-folly-uig-isle-of-skye/#comment-16758 Sat, 30 Nov 2024 16:51:06 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=13725#comment-16758 NYC – TOM
I MUST SAY, YOUR LATEST ‘OFFERING’ – IS MY KIND OF STRUCTURE; SIMPLE, SOLID, STRONG AND (FROM WHAT I CAN SEE) INTACT.
A FRIEND OF MINE, ALONG WITH HIS WIFE AND CHILD, LIVED, FOR A TIME, IN A SMALL
LIGHTHOUSE (NO LONGER IN USE). I ALWAYS REMEMBER HIS WIFE SAYING, ‘IT’S AN INTERESTING TASK TO ‘FURNISH’ A ROOM WITHOUT A STRAIGHT WALL’.
BUT THEN, I ALWAYS FACED A PROBLEM, AS A CHALLENGE TO BE SOLVED.

]]> By: Catherine Parker https://thefollyflaneuse.com/captain-frasers-folly-uig-isle-of-skye/#comment-16757 Sat, 30 Nov 2024 13:07:04 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=13725#comment-16757 Very interesting. Thank you. I have just been reading about this, thought you might like it.
https://www.yorkshire.com/history/a-look-at-the-history-of-how-hill-tower-wallerthwaite-with-dr-emma-wells/

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/captain-frasers-folly-uig-isle-of-skye/#comment-16753 Sat, 30 Nov 2024 08:42:48 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=13725#comment-16753 In reply to IL Marples.

Well spotted! I hadn’t done the sums there. But perhaps they were children of an earlier marriage? Thanks for your comment – it made me smile.

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/captain-frasers-folly-uig-isle-of-skye/#comment-16752 Sat, 30 Nov 2024 08:40:53 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=13725#comment-16752 In reply to Kate.

Good morning Kate. I’m pleased you enjoyed the folly and its story. I was lucky to see it recently in the sunshine, just before the snow fell.

]]> By: IL Marples https://thefollyflaneuse.com/captain-frasers-folly-uig-isle-of-skye/#comment-16751 Sat, 30 Nov 2024 08:33:54 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=13725#comment-16751 Hi Folly

William Ross’s wife may have first been taken to the unusual circular home well before the wedding in 1908, if they had two grandchildren only thirteen years after wedlock…

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