St Kilda: The Loneliest Place On Earth

[HardSaint]

cut off from he mainland's prosperity and success
left to weather the coldest winters and roughest of seas
an Island unto our own
with little help from the outside
yet as those outsiders peer in quizzically at what a strange breed we are
what makes us tick, how do we put up with our lot
we carry on

[Yorkeys]

Was where the OIC Quarantine is living in the running?

[saintsRrising]

Striking in its raw and awesome beauty, but yes very remote. It is certainly worth the effort to get there.








And this is where our club originated from:

Rachel Chiesley, Lady Grange lived at this spot (see pic below) for 17 years. There is some debate if it was in this cleit, or whether there was an earlier blackhhouse on the same spot.





Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, bought a schooner named it the Lady of St Kilda for the island of St Kilda in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland to commemorate a visit to the island by his wife, Lydia, in 1810. Acland had named the vessel after Rachel, Lady Grange, who in 1734 was imprisoned by her husband and a group of Jacobite Noblemen on the St Kilda archipelago in Scotland for 17 years.

And St Kilda the suburb gained its name from the schooner from it often being anchored off St Kilda and our club in turn gained its name from the suburb.

So for a fan like myself it was a great buzz to stand on the site that has led to the name of our club.

[ace]

Striking in its raw and awesome beauty, but yes very remote. It is certainly worth the effort to get there.








And this is where our club originated from:

Rachel Chiesley, Lady Grange lived at this spot (see pic below) for 17 years. There is some debate if it was in this cleit, or whether there was an earlier blackhhouse on the same spot.





Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, bought a schooner named it the Lady of St Kilda for the island of St Kilda in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland to commemorate a visit to the island by his wife, Lydia, in 1810. Acland had named the vessel after Rachel, Lady Grange, who in 1734 was imprisoned by her husband and a group of Jacobite Noblemen on the St Kilda archipelago in Scotland for 17 years.

And St Kilda the suburb gained its name from the schooner from it often being anchored off St Kilda and our club in turn gained its name from the suburb.

So for a fan like myself it was a great buzz to stand on the site that has led to the name of our club.

Named after a schooner, lets drink to that.

[supersaints2]

Did we get Cain Acland as father/son?

[shanegrambeau]

Play the grand final there.

[saintsRrising]

Play the grand final there.

Well that would guarantee an uneven playing field, as there is no flat land there. So that may be an advantage as the Saints are used to the playing that way

[shanegrambeau]

I didn't know ANY of this stuff....despite my BIG brain (which has pushed a lot of my hair out)

Geez....that Scottish Erkine had balls....poor Lady Grange. (I am sure they married out of love)

* Didn't realise the original habitants were Norse either. Or that the name comes from two levels of translation mistakes!

I am trying to find out what happened to the ship. I think we should build a replica. Nice looking boat and evidently seaworthy.
edit: http://marvmelb.blogspot.com/2013/08/th ... kilda.html

the pic here is NOT the boat Lady of St Kilda I believe. I am no boat expert, but the shape of the bow and the rake of her masts make this boat look newer, probably 1860s. The original has been sketched before and looks more likely. Blunter bows and not as sleek.

Lady Grange was the wife of James Erskine, a wealthy 18th century Scottish lord and barrister. In 1732, the good lady discovered papers that showed her husband was involved in a plot to overthrow the British monarchy. The plot was part of an ultimately failed coup attempt designed to install Scottish heir Bonnie Prince Billy on the British throne. Outraged by this treasonous behaviour, Lady Grange immediately determined to reveal her husband's activities. But Erskine was alerted to his wife's maneuver and struck first.


Rachael Chiesley, AKA Lady Grange

Lady Grange was abducted at her husband's order and taken initially to an isolated castle that he owned in northern Scotland. She was then interred in a private mental hospital before being moved to the St Kilda islands around 1735. Now imprisoned in one of the most isolated inhabited spots on Earth, the noblewoman endured years of degrading treatment; living alone in a stone dwelling with an earthen floor, among a small local population who spoke no English, suffering poor health due to the island's harsh climate and lifestyle.

[Enrico_Misso]

Play the grand final there.

Well that would guarantee an uneven playing field, as there is no flat land there. So that may be an advantage as the Saints are used to the playing that way

Should be fine as we are the only AFL side used to playing with a crest.