Large, leather-bound Brown’s Bible (1868) belonging to the Nisbet family of Heanish. Handwritten on the inside, on a Family Register page, are the names and dates of birth of the Nisbet children: Flora, Catherine, Joan, Allister and Robert.
Colour photograph of a road sign from Ireland found washed up on Hough Bay in December 2020. Cúrsa timpill is Irish Gaelic for detour – a very long detour indeed!
Newspaper cutting advertising the private sale of the whole of Tiree by the 10th Duke of Argyll in 1951, with images of Island House and Balephuil Bay.
Coverless copy of ‘The British Women’s Cookery Book’, 1906 (2nd edition), edited by Mrs Ebeneezer (Elizabeth) MacLean, Stirling, and belonging to Donald MacArthur, Ibrox, who opened The Glassary Restaurant at Sandaig with his wife, Mabel. On the Introduction page Donald has written his name and his address in Glasgow.
The book was compiled for sale at the British Women’s Temperance Association Bazaar, which was held in Glasgow in 1905. Its aim was to help “spread knowledge of, and interest in, that efficiency of home management which affects the happiness of people, and their moral wellbeing”.
Colour postcard from around 1980, of a thatched house with a well and pump in the foreground.
Colour photograph of Mairi MacKinnon, Parkhouse, Balephetrish having dinner at the Lodge Hotel in around 2000, with Dr John Holliday on the left.
Original sepia postcard of Scarinish in the 1920s, with the school right of centre (the larger building), and the Reading Room (now An Iodhlann) on the extreme right.
Colour photograph of the former Mission Hall / Missionary House in Balephuil.
Colour photograph of Kilkenneth chapel after renovation.
Black & white photograph of Medieval skeletons in two burial pits discovered during excavation work at Kirkapol Parish Church.
