Dervaig Reading Room

now a store room for our wonderful village shop. I couldn’t find any information but remember being told a fire was lit each day by a neighbour who then carried the hot coals home once the reading room was closed later in the evening. To the right is a WW1 memorial plaque, and on the left a modern day sign and posters.

A summary about Dervaig taken from the Internet:
A stone plaque over the door of what is now the post office in the main street reveals this to have been built as Dervaig's Reading Room in 1898. It went on to serve as the village hall for over a century until the arrival of a much larger village hall standing above the village alongside the road to Tobermory.

Today the village has a shop, church, bakery and an inn, the Bellachroy, which opened alongside the main road here in 1608. The village of Dervaig as you see it today dates back to 1799, when Alexander MacLean, the Laird of Coll, established a planned village here. This comprised 26 houses and cottages lining both sides of a single street, each with its own garden and with common grazing provided for residents' livestock. By the late 1800s the village could boast two inns, along with a bakery, a shop, a post office and a smithy.