Small hardback book in Gaelic ‘An Saoghal a ta ri Teachd / The World to Come’ or ‘Seallaidhean Nèimh agus Ifrinn / Visions of Heaven and Hell’ by John Bunyan, 1891. On the inside front cover is handwritten ‘Francis Wm Taylor, 26th Janry 1901’. Rev Taylor was a Baptist minister. The book was in the belongings of John Brown, Sliabh, Balephuil.
Softback book ‘Off the Beaten Track’, by Bob Chambers, 2018. An in depth study of the issues surrounding infrastructure provision for new crofting townships in the 1920s and 1930s, and their role in the life or death of remote Hebridean communities, including Tiree.
Scanned copy of a package label of Duncan MacKinnon & Son, General Merchants, Balephuil. Duncan MacKinnon and later his son, Alasdair, ran a large shop in Balephuil, which sold all manner of household items and petrol. It closed in 1974.
Black & white photograph of a home-made sand yacht on Gott Bay in 1933. The yacht was made by Jimmy Burt of Glasgow, who is sitting in the yacht with his wife May.
Black & white photograph of a ‘spotty’ house and barn at Gott/lower Vaul in 1933.
Black & white photograph of Highland cows and horses in front of a black-roof house in 1933.
Black & white photograph of competitors and spectators at a Sports Day on The Reef in 1933. The two competitors are astride a raised beam, hitting one another with filled sacks.
Black & white photograph of a black-roof house by the sandy track to Upper Vaul, 1933. Only the remains of the house are now visible.
Black and white photograph of (L-R) siblings John, Alex, Mary and Donald MacKenzie, who lived at Harbour, Caoles, in around 1933. John (1925-2017) became a celebrated footballer known as ‘The Firhill Flyer’, playing for Partick Thistle and Scotland.
Scanned copy of a newspaper obituary for Captain Allan Campbell (b. ca 1900), Scarinish, in around 1980. Allan Campbell was a deep-sea mariner all his life, including serving in the Merchant Navy during WWII.
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