Eastview
About Us
Croft houses have been the traditional Shetland building for hundreds of years. Their basic design and core materials have remained very consistent over that time, glass for windows and a developing range of roof coverings being the main technical developments from 1700 to the 1970's.
Eastview was built as far as we can tell in about 1840 and has been a family home for many generations since.
Through the years it's occupants have been fishermen / crofters and their families. Eastview was expanded and adapted as needs changed, it was home to two seperate families on at least two occasions. It's occupants have left to make new lives in far flung places, notably whole families moving to the the great lakes of Canada in the 1850's and the south of New Zealand in about 1910.
The new occupants of Eastview after those emigrations were relatives who stayed to make their life from crofting and fishing and at times whaling in the Arctic and Antarctic, saling in the merchant navy across the world's seas, and military service from the trenches of France to the Indian Ocean. It's inhabitants have featured in many of the worlds great events and Easthouse has been in my family one way or another since being built.
Now it is moderenised and offered for holiday let, a relaxing location to get away from it all.