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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Three fragments of modern pottery found on Baugh Beach in 2020: (1) edge of an RAF plate, (2) Possil Pottery, Glasgow stoneware 1881-1942, (3) Grecian pattern, late 19th century, Clyde Pottery Company.
Black and white photograph of L-R (back): Peggy MacIntosh, Duncan MacPhee, Morag MacPhee. L-R (front) Henry and Willie MacPhee. The photograph was taken at the back of MacPhee’s house, Staffa View, in Scarinish in around 1942.
Colour photograph of a pretend, jokey invoice to Colin Campbell, ‘Deobedal’, Scarinish, to Sam ‘Stavinsky’ Stevenson, ‘The Pier’, for the repair and painting of a toy lorry in 1939, and a part of the lorry.
Black & white photograph of Alex MacKenzie, Milton, aged around 5, with his dog, Coll, taken at Milton in around 1927. Courtesty of Morag MacKenzie.
Black & white photograph of Donald MacKinnon (1872-1945), Balinoe, with his wife Annie MacKinnon and son Donald Roderick MacKinnon in around 1912. Donald’s parents were Roderick MacKinnon (1833-1879) and Marion Brown (1840-1924). He left Tiree in around the late 1890s and worked as a police constable in Glasgow. He married Annie MacLeod in June 1902 and they had a daughter, Isabella MacKinnon, who was born in Glasgow on 30 March 1903. Sometime between 1903 and 1906 the family emigrated to South Africa where Donald and his brother, Murdoch MacKinnon, worked as policemen. There, Donald and Annie had another two children: Joan and Marion. Donald died in South Africa in 1945 (death certificate).
Black & white photograph of L-R: black-roofed croft house, outbuildings and new croft house, at Main Road Farm in Balephuil, around the 1930s. From an exhibition held at An Iodhlann in 1998.
Small, wooden, hand-turned, table-top, butter churn from the early 1900s.
Small brass eagle mounted on the brass ‘lid’ of a missile shell, probably from RAF Tiree during WWII. Unknown origin and purpose.
