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The country store in Neshamn around 1910.

Neshamn

19.06.2018 - 17:45

Neshamn must be an ancient place for meeting and spending the night for travellers. The place blossomed in connection with the times of economic expansion in the 1500s, which to a large extent was linked to the Scottish trade at this time. Neshamn was a loading place for Scottish ships for two hundred years, up to the middle of the 1700s.

The trade center at Årbakka, Tysnes

Årbakka- The trading center

30.03.2018 - 20:26

Den gamle handelsstaden på Tjernagelsholmen kring 1920 (foto: ukjent)

Tjernagelsholmen

06.05.2019 - 10:42

Mosterhamn

Mosterhamn

03.09.2020 - 10:50

Mosterhamn is one of the old privileged trading posts situated centrally in the shipping lane, whether the ships sailed on Langenuten, Nyeleia through Fitjar or into the Hardanger Fjord. From prehistoric times Bømlo and Moster were the first landing places when arriving from the west; a landscape with good harbours.

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