25 LOST Highland Crofting Skills That Took a Lifetime to Master (And Are Almost Gone)

In 1901, a twelve-year-old on a Hebridean croft could do things with her hands that almost nobody alive can do today. These are the 25 LOST Highland crofting skills that kept the Scottish Highlands and islands alive — counted down to the one skill that carried all the others. From smooring the peat fire so it never died, to the cas-chrom foot plough that turned ground no horse could touch, to the blackhouse — the home that heated itself — this is how ordinary Highland families fed, housed, warmed and clothed themselves from their own hillside... and how that entire world vanished in a single lifetime. If your family came from the Highlands and islands of Scotland — or you simply believe this knowledge deserves to outlive the last hands that held it — subscribe. We're recording Britain's vanishing skills, one video at a time. Next on the channel: the island they abandoned overnight, and the skills that died with it. Forgotten Highland Skills is an original production. Every episode is researched from historical sources and archives, with original narration, scripting and editing produced in-house. #Scotland #ScottishHighlands #History