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
2026.8.1
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Acquisitions
2026.7.1
A pottery sherd
A sherd of Iron Age pottery found in an eroded bank at Brock.
2026.6.3
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.
2026.6.2
A masthead navigation light, from Donald Brown, Vaul
2026.6.1
A box of 20 Kodak 35mm slides, including views of the sunken Loch Seaforth, taken by Donald Brown and his brother Tommy