12056 Results Found
Displaying page 2 of 1206 pages of results:
Three original portrait photgraphs c.1905
Found in the attic at 2 Sliabh, Balephuil showing members of the Brown family who had lived there.
Calum Neil, Malcolm Brown, grandfather of John Brown, Balephuil.
Tearlach Chaluim Neill, Charles Brown, father of John Brown.
Tearlach Chaluim Neill, Charles Brown (centre) with his twin brothers Alasdair and Donald.
The images can be viewed by clicking here
Spares for a Tilley lamp
A packet of three prickers by Belgrave Prickers. “Quick and effective for cleaning all stoves and blowlamps. British Made”
A spare mantle
A pottery sherd
A sherd of Iron Age pottery found in an eroded bank at Brock.
A Lucas battery filler. A distilled water bottle for topping up accumulator batteries.
Early household radio sets were powered by glass accumulator batteries. See 2014.31.1 These batteries were regularly taken to be charged at local shops, such as Calum “Calum Salum” MacLean’s shop in Salum, where they would be topped up with distilled water.
A masthead navigation light, from Donald Brown, Vaul
A box of 20 Kodak 35mm slides, including views of the sunken Loch Seaforth, taken by Donald Brown and his brother Tommy
A magic lantern with 14 glass slides
A magic lantern – an early type of image projector
With 14 glass slides, including pictures, bible texts and hymns
These were widely used until the 1950s when superseded by 35mm slide projectors
A lantern (possibly this one) was used at the Baptist Sunday-schools and Temperance meetings in Tiree.
From a collection of photographs and items from Lodge Farm, Kirkapol.
A horse buckle from Lodge Farm
From a collection of items from a byre in Brock
Head of five-tine Wolf Garten cultivator, post-1922.
From a collection of items from a byre in Brock
Cast iron kettle holding 5½ pints from John Law Foundry, Glasgow, 1852–1910
