Black & white photoprint of a scanned postcard of a horse and cart on the beach at Gott Bay in around 1920. Titled ‘”Silversands” Tiree’.
Tag Archives: horse-drawn
2021.53.55
Digitised copy of Instructions for the chamberlain of Tiree, 1771. These instructions were sent from the Duke of Argyll and include: rents; over population of Tiree; establishing a fishing village; present system of husbandry including runrigs, introducing wheeled carriages, sand blowing, cutting bent, pulling barley, gredden, distilleries, introducing flax and hemp; mills; the minister’s Glebe; taking bear [barley] in payments of rent; draining lochs; roads in Tiree; selling of wood. There is no transcript available for this item.
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From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
2019.33.11
2019.33.10
2018.72.1
2018.54.24
2018.54.23
Colour photograph of a demonstration of horse-drawn ploughing at the Agricultural Show in 1999. Among those identified are John Alec MacDonald, Rena MacKinnon, Lachie MacKinnon, Donald MacIntyre, Angus MacLean, Neil MacArthur, Julie Worsley, Lachie MacFadyen, Roddy MacKay.
2017.54.8
Coloured photograph of ‘Ploughing at Balevullin, Tiree’’, 1941-43, taken by archaeologist George Holleyman FSA when he was stationed at RAF Tiree during WWII. Scanned from one of his hand-coloured glass lantern slides now held at An Iodhlann (see 2017.54.4).
2016.56.8
2015.57.7
Two black and white photographs of an unidentified man ploughing with two heavy horses, in a hilly location that is not Tiree. Probably taken in around the 1930s.