Gloup and Cullivoe visit
Today I cycled to school and went inside. Everybody was getting ready for a visit to the Gloup memorial, this was because we have been doing some local history topic. Soon me and everybody else were ready to go with our snack. Although we also needed to drive to Gloup so we all sorted each other into all the cars, I went in Mrs Hays with Thorfinn. The drive to Gloup is about a 35 min drive, we also passed Mid yell and Cullivoe on the way. Eventually we got close to the Memorial then walked about 200 meters and soon we were all reading the names on the statue. The Gloup Memorial Is a statue of a woman holding a baby looking out to sea, and this is because on June 20th, 1881, the Gloup disaster happened. What the Gloup disaster is, is every year (they stopped doing this after the Gloup disaster) there was something called the Half fishing, basically one week they choose a bunch of good sailors and fisherman and the next they might already be taking there Sixareens (boats for six people) down to the beach and rowing away into the deep sea they also went about 40 – 60 miles out. The year that this happened they decided to do the Half fishing at Gloup so on that morning of the 20th of June they set out they also believed that it would be a nice day but far out there was a big, big storm. Only some men survived but most didn’t, and all the boats were severely damaged. That day a lot of families and children were left without dads and maybe even older brothers. After a Quick recap of Mrs Hay telling us what happened, we ran down the hill to the beach where once the men had laid their boats ready for the Half fishing. Later we also had a small visit to Cullivoe school for snack and a play, we stayed there for about an hour we also talked a bit more about the Gloup memorial. Then we left and got back to School.
