Scotland Sunday Photos 8 – Jura & Barnhill (the house where Orwell wrote 1984)

I have always been an Orwell nut and when I found out that 1984 was written on the Scottish Island of Jura in a house right at the top of the island I thought I would like to go and see it. I was lucky enough to be given the opportunity and here are some of the photos.

This was before everyone had a digital camera so these are scanned from prints hence the quality is a bit worse than the other ones in the series…

Here is the house where he wrote the book…

The house is actually several miles after the ROAD finishes so Orwell wasn’t kidding when he said he wanted space to write the book. It would probably be harder to find anywhere in Britain where you could be further away from anyone else. You have to walk all the way along here…

 

Here are some other shots from around Jura.

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