Family selling ‘idyllic’ island with ruined castle after 80 years

Eighty years after a mother has entered a London real estate agency and bought a Hebridean Island that she has never seen to leave the city, her family sells her historical houses.

Shuna Island, which is currently a castle, working farm and holiday accommodation, has been home to the Gully family since 1945, but now £ 5.5 million.

Jim Gully, who appeared on the second generation of the family, said that white sand beaches and rocky bays give them a “pastoral” childhood.

Real estate agents Sothebys International Realtly said that the sale of 1,000 acres of island was a “really rare offer”.

Since the wild life paradise, Dowager Viscountess Selby’s retirement title as the President of the House of Commons, Dowger Viscountess Selby, who was descended from the descendant of Gully, was approaching a real estate agent after the war and asking if there was any island in his books.

“Everyone has trauma so much with what was in war that they were looking for a new beginning,” his grandson Jim Gully told the BBC Scotland News.

“He bought the island without seeing it and raised his family up.”

His father, Eddie, the fourth child of the family, was raised to Shuna at the age of three months. He now lives on Seil Island, which is connected to the main road.

Gully, “Shuna has been the prize for 80 years and has looked at and trying to ensure that all kinds of businesses continue and loved the entire life.” He said.

“My brother and I grew up in Shuna. We studied at home by our grandfather [Donald Wells] on the island.

He continued: “There to teach a childhood, to manage the farm and holiday huts, and we are still doing this.”

The location of the Atlantic Island in Hebridean archipelago protects it from ocean swelling, but sometimes brings the difficulty of navigating to the inhabitants. Corryvreckan Whirlpools.

“We often had to go to Corryvreckan by a boat full of sheep for years, so it caused some exciting journeys.” He said.

In the last 12 years, the island was ruled by Rob and Kathryn James, who lived full -time on Shuna, but pushed plans to pass another role to sell the family.

Images start late this week, but in the meantime, regular visitors secure their stay for the rest of the year.

“It was a major role for all our lives, and it was absolutely sad that all this ends, but it would be a little easier for my father to manage all this and go to the island three or four times a week.” He said.

The castle was built by the adventurer Alexander Maclean Buckley, born in New Zealand in 1911, with Ernest Shackleton with “avoiding expenses” just three years after joining an Antarctica journey in Nimrod.

The castle plans and the architect who designed them are believed to be on the fate of Titanic.

“It was about to export plans to America and build much more, Mr. Mr. Gully said.

“His plans fell with Titanic and stopped many flat -roofed castles in America.”

When the castle became very costly, the maintenance fell into ruins in the 1980s.

“I lived there for the first 10 years and you can look at the old bedroom window and see the room taught by my grandmother and grandfather – all of them are very fresh in memory,” he remembered.

In the morning, children were taught “mathematics, English and lateral thinking”, and then “boot” to explore the island.

Until then, the family used only one quarter of the castle as the rest began to fall.

“When you move the furniture around the room, you knew that your days were numbered to find lice that would not fall to the ground.” He said.

“Even if there are trees that grow through windows, it still looks very impressive.”

Shuna, one of the Slate Islands, has been proven by stone and iron age tombs and ruined farms and houses for at least 4,500 years.

The lime from the 18th and 19th centuries remain dotted around the island and is estimated to be a population of about 80 people between 1750-1850.

Visitors of the island Six holiday houses, It can host up to 52 people And it is strengthened by sustainable energy materials, normally taken from a 20 -minute boat trip from the pier in the mainland in the mainland, but there is a helicopter track on the island.

The real estate agents claimed that one of the two islands, Shuna near Oban, was “perfectly appropriate” for a very generation life, a boutique hospitality attempt or “healthy life target”.