This sponsored documentary records the travelling bank in Lochaber and the Isle of Lewis including the local traditional industries which are supported by the travelling bank services.

Shots include fishing at Loch Shiel, the Jacobite monument at Glenfinnan, Commando momument at Spean Bridge. We see the Caledonian Canal, Great Glen cattle ranch and cattle sale near Fort William. Foresters at the Glen Righ forest, Lochy and the River Spey. Shots of the National Bank of Scotland travelling bank on the Corran ferry. Two men talk in a bus shelter. General shots of Stornoway/Lewis including fishing, spinning wheel. Local bus delivering parcels to a crofter, fisherman stops the travelling bank. Crofter loading Harris tweed onto lorry and receiving payment through the travelling bank. People queuing at the travelling bank. Various shots of the travelling bank on the road. Crofters dig and stack peat and local people wait for the bank. Standing stones at Callanish and various Highland scenery.

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