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Peat Stack (Photograph by Kelly)
The photograph above shows a peat stack on the Isle of Harris in the Western Isles of Scotland. When I first visited the Western Isles (1982) I was pretty young and niave. I had never heard that peat was used as a fuel so faced with my first peat stack I was puzzled. The stacks appeared alongside nearly every house that we passed. Many had been built with much care and attention which created fancy patterns of criss-cross rows of peat slabs of varying shades of brown to pitch black.
Many peat stacks can still be seen today (2007) but they are gradually beecoming rarer as homes move towards oil or electricity as their choice of fuel. Sadly, no matter how diguised they are, I find the oil tanks an unsightly replacement for the peat stack that I have since felt a typically hebridean sight.
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