Colour photograph of Scarinish Harbour in 2003, with several small motor boats, sailing boats and fishing boats.
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Colour photograph of sailing dingy E4103 in Scarinish Harbour during a regatta in the early 1970s, with Tiree Pipe Band playing on the pier in the background.
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Colour photograph of (L-R) Duncan MacPhee, Scarinish, and John MacDonald, in Scarinish before/after a fishing trip in around 1980. The photograph was framed as a Christmas Card from Joan and Norman Burden.
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Black & white photograph of a young woman, thought to be Catherine MacKenzie (nee MacFarlane of Baugh Manse, 1864-1904), sitting at the shore in around 1885. Catherine was the daughter of Rev Duncan MacFarlane, Baptist minister at Baugh. Catherine married Duncan MacKenzie of Inverary, but left him around 1904 and returned to live with her parents at Baugh Manse, where she remained until her death. One of her sons, Kenneth MacKenzie, became Chief Officer aboard the ship ‘Discovery‘.
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Scanned copy of a telegram sent by Captain John Brown (1902-1986), Balevullin, to his parents in Cornaig, after being shipwrecked on Tuskar Rock off the east coast of Ireland in 1927. Includes a page of background information. John Brown was 25 years old at the time and could not swim.
He met his future wife when his ship, the Baron Belhaven, was being repaired in Barry Docks (west of Cardiff) in 1941. A bomb had dropped down the funnel when sailing in convoy out of Liverpool during WW2.
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Black & white photograph of HMS Sturdy broken in two on rocks at Sandaig during WW2.
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Printed photograph of four brass printing plates and their corresponding prints, used by Mona MacDonald to create postcards for selling from her shop in Scarinish in around the 1960s. Each plate was inked with a different colour, the combined effect creating the final full-colour postcard of boats in Scarinish Harbour.
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Replica copy of a set of six colour postcard images arranged in the pull-out form of a ‘letter card’, made by Mona MacDonald for selling from her shop in Scarinish during the 1950s-1970s. Images are of Scarinish harbour, Baugh beach, thatched house at Moss, Gott beach, Kenavara, Travee.
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Colour photograph of Mona MacDonald in her shop in Scarinish in around 1955.
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Colour photograph of Mona MacDonald and her mother Maggie outside MacDonald’s shop in Scarinish in around 1955.
