▲ 86 ▼ Abandoned village on the island of Hirta, Scotland (media.piefed.social) submitted 1 year ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to c/historyruins@piefed.social 8 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children) So like, can i move there? permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Skua@kbin.earth 7 points 1 year ago* (1 child) Only if you're a puffin! The island has been uninhabited since it was evacuated in 1930. It was always very isolated, being significantly out from any other inhabited land and too small and harsh to support more than a couple hundred people at best. As contact became somewhat more regular in the 18th to 20th centuries, diseases brought to the island just about wiped out the population, and the last people there decided to collectively leave for the mainland These days it's a nature reserve. You can go across and stay on the island for a summer, though! People go to help restore and preserve the village each year permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] peterbrown@mastodon.scot 2 points 1 year ago @Skua @PugJesus @StopSpazzing the original inhabitants were put under enormous pressure to leave the island. They refused them the most basic services like a postal service or a ferry and made their life impossible. However 10 years later they discovered actually it was habitable because they located a military base there. A dreadful story. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Skua@kbin.earth 7 points 1 year ago* (1 child) Only if you're a puffin! The island has been uninhabited since it was evacuated in 1930. It was always very isolated, being significantly out from any other inhabited land and too small and harsh to support more than a couple hundred people at best. As contact became somewhat more regular in the 18th to 20th centuries, diseases brought to the island just about wiped out the population, and the last people there decided to collectively leave for the mainland These days it's a nature reserve. You can go across and stay on the island for a summer, though! People go to help restore and preserve the village each year permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] peterbrown@mastodon.scot 2 points 1 year ago @Skua @PugJesus @StopSpazzing the original inhabitants were put under enormous pressure to leave the island. They refused them the most basic services like a postal service or a ferry and made their life impossible. However 10 years later they discovered actually it was habitable because they located a military base there. A dreadful story. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] peterbrown@mastodon.scot 2 points 1 year ago @Skua @PugJesus @StopSpazzing the original inhabitants were put under enormous pressure to leave the island. They refused them the most basic services like a postal service or a ferry and made their life impossible. However 10 years later they discovered actually it was habitable because they located a military base there. A dreadful story. permalink fedilink source parent
