Waterbird | Windermere: British Naval and Civil Marine Aeroplanes
Another Space originates, develops and manages projects at the heart of the community. It originally formed in the Highlands of Scotland to carry out archive and oral history work based on the Twentieth Century industrial landscape in and around Invergordon and the Cromarty Firth.
Stories emerged that connected this far flung area of Scotland (let alone Britain) to events concerning the Spanish Civil War, the First and Second World Wars on land, sea and air, and refugee stories from World War Two Czechoslovakia all the way through to Kosovo in the 1990’s.
Close to the site of the 1746 Battle of Culloden, the location forever linked to the final demise of the Jacobite cause, a moving connection was discovered with the MS St.Louis and the story of the Jewish passengers who embarked from Hamburg in 1939 and who were refused entry to Cuba (despite having legal permits to enter) and who, after a tortuous journey, eventually returned to Europe. Many of the passengers did not survive the ensuing Holocaust.
Waterbird | Windermere: British Naval and Civil Marine Aeroplanes