Black and white photograph of the old mill at Cornaig.
The old mill at Cornaig showing water wheel and mill stream.
2002.78.3
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Dates: 1910s
2000.10.11
Book `Oban, Fort William and the Western Highlands`.
Illustrated guide book including maps, photos, advertisements and index. Covers hotels and travel (sea & rail) from Oban or Fort William. Page 75: Tiree only mentioned briefly.
2000.10.20
Book `Finlay MacQueen of St Kilda` by W. R. Mitchell.
Biography of Finlay MacQueen (1862 – 1941) from St Kilda. Includes chapters on St Kilda`s cragsmen, crofting, kirk, school, visitors, wartime experience, and evacuation in 1930.
2000.10.28.1
Biographical and artistic information about artists Mary Barnard and Duncan MacGregor Whyte of Oban and Balephuil.
Bound book extracts about Duncan MacGregor Whyte and his wife Mary Barnard from the `Dictionary of Scottish Art & Architecture` by Peter J.M. McEwan , pp 63, 605 and `The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition 1826-1990` edited by Charles Baile de Laperriere, p 420. Includes a list of works exhibited by Duncan MacGregor Whyte. DMcGW built The Studio at Balephuil and painted many scenes and portraits of Tiree.
1997.156.7
Black and white photograph of building Gott Bay pier.
Building the new pier at Gott Bay, c. 1910.
2002.72.4
Newspaper cutting `Albert Goodheir` with photocopy.
Obituary for Albert Goodheir (1912-1995), former minister on Tiree, Esperanto expert and author.
2002.72.9
Hardback book `Nicholls`s Seamanship` by A. E. Nicholls.
The prescribed subjects for each grade of the Board of Trade Examinations from Second Mate to Master. Includes pull-out page ‘Conduct of the Examinations’. Handwritten on the inside cover are the names J M McIntosh (crossed out) and Ian M Johnston.
2000.7.2.1
Magazine articles `Tiree Portfolio` and `Gott Bay Pier, Isle of Tiree` from Caledonian MacBrayne staff magazine `Brayne Waves`, 1997
(1) `Tiree Portfolio` was written with contributions from Hector MacPhail and records which boats served Tiree, their captains, cargo handling methods, and improvements at the Pier, (2) `Gott Bay Pier, Isle of Tiree` was written by Alexander MacArthur, (Balemartine) who worked on the SS Hebrides. He gives an account of cargo handling including cattle and vehicles.
1997.170.5
Black & white photograph of Neil MacLaine and his wife Catherine MacFadyen in their Highland finery. The ‘Bard’, as Neil MacLaine was familiarly known, was at the forefront of the Celtic movement in Glasgow from the late 1890s until his death in 1925.
Courtesy of Mrs Mairi Campbell
The Bard had a gift for telling humerous Gaelic stories and reciting his own compositions. He regularly attended meetings of the Clan MacLean, Tiree Association and Ceilidh nan Gaidheal and was a vice-president in each of these societies.
Born in Caoles in 1851, he went to Glasgow at an early age to become apprenticed to the joinery trade. Apart from four years spent in the Kimberley Diamond Fields in South Africa, he remained in the city until his death in 1919.
2002.56.8
Black and white photograph of Amelia Cameron and Mrs Anderson, the gamekeeper`s wife.
L-R: Amelia Cameron nee Munn (grand-daughter of Allan MacFadyen (1800-1891) and Amelia Stewart (1812-1891) of Scarinish Hotel) and Effy Anderson née Low, the gamekeeper`s wife and sister of Hugh Alexander Low, taken c. 1915-25.
