Metal drift calculator (isothermal calibration) used by an RAF navigator during WWII. Strapped to the upper thigh along with a roll of note paper, it was used for correcting the aircraft’s height and air speed according to air temperature. Found on moorland just north of Island House, it is thought to have fallen from one of the two aircraft that collided nearby in August 1944. On loan for displaying at Tiree Airport.
Colour photograph of a Nissan hut at the entrance to The Camp at Crossapol, in around 2000. Only the foundations of the Nissan hut remain. The Camp was the main site of RAF Tiree’s operations during WWII.
Black & white photographic postcard of passengers aboard the ferry passing through the Sound of Mull on their way to/from Tiree in the 1920s.
Black & white photographic postcard of the machair at Scarinish during the 1920s, including a thatched house and the back of MacArthur’s Store.
Letter card written at Clachan Guest House at Baugh in the 1950s. Comprises a single long folded sheet containing six black & white photographs of Tiree.
Small illustrated card from a packet of Park Drive cigarettes (Gallaher Ltd) showing the WWII destroyer ‘HMS Sturdy’ at sea. HMS Sturdy was wrecked on the rocks at Sandaig during a storm in 1940.
St John’s Ambulance medal and two British Red Cross badges of honour belonging to Dr Neil Hugh Alan MacKinnon, Balemartine (1900-1976), who served as a medic overseas during WWII and after in the Red Cross Hospital for Officers at Percival Terrace, Brighton.
Row of miniature medals – stars and rosettes, belonging to Dr Neil Hugh Alan MacKinnon, Balemartine (1900-1976), who served as an Army medic during WWII. L-R: 1939-1945, North Atlantic, France-Germany (rosette), Africa, Burma, Pacific (rosette), Italy. Few served in as many campaigns.
Set of butter-making tools from the 1940s: (1) hand-turned glass ‘Blow’ butter churn, (2) pair of wooden butter pats, (3) round, wooden butter mould with a barley design carved into the imprint.
Intricately hand-carved, ornate, wooden picture frame from Lodge Farm, Kirkapol. Probably made by a local during one of Lady Victoria Campbell’s woodworking classes in around 1900.
