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.
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2020.53.5
Large framed print of a newspaper photograph of ‘The Firhill Flyer’ Johnny MacKenzie (1925-2017), Caoles (on the left), playing football for Scotland against Hungary at Hampden Park in 1954. From ‘Harbour’, Caoles.
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Original copy of a children’s comic book featuring the story ‘Dandy, the Detective Dispatch Rider’ by Mrs Alexander Gross, and colour sketches of a German Zeppelin and British tri-planes during WWI. Published by Geographia, London in 1920. Also includes a poem ‘The Flowers Postman’ about bees, and sketches of children. The name John ? Lamont is signed in pen at the top of the cover. Found in ‘Harbour’, Caoles.
2020.53.3
Collection of six mail-order clothing catalogues, leaflets and order forms from the 1920s, including Dallas’s of Glasgow fashions, 1925; Miximus footwear, Northampton, and its envelope addressed to Mr H McKinnon, ‘Harbour’, Caoles; Maximum Shoe Company and Maximus Clothing; Dorothy Bags, Northampton, 1921; The Last footwear, Dundee, 1925; Greenlees & Sons ‘Easiephit’ Footwear, Glasgow, 1922. From ‘Harbour’, Caoles.
2020.53.2
60th anniversary souvenir edition of NHS Glasgow’s ‘Health News’ newspaper, July 2008, containing articles and photographs from the birth of the NHS in 1948 to 2008. Most folk on Tiree will have used Glasgow’s hospital facilities at some time over the decades, and many took up positions in nursing there. The paper provides an insight into health care at that time. From ‘Harbour’, Caoles.
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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.
2020.52.3
Scanned copy of a certificate of qualification belonging to Niall Colin Brown Campbell, Scarinish (b.1933), dated 1964, issued by the Canadian Department of Transport enabling him to pilot ships on the Great Lakes of Ontario and Erie in Canada. Before moving to Glasgow and then Canada, Niall lived at Deobedal, Scarinish.
2020.51.1
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.
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An ‘Active Service RAF Privilege’ envelope addressed to Mrs V R Harvey, Hastings, stamped 12 October 1942 , Crossapol, Tiree, containing a series of letters from her husband Harry Harvey who served at RAF Tiree during WWII. In the letters Harry expresses how homesick he is, how he misses his wife and child, and his frustration at missing several shots at the island’s wildlife. The letters were opened and approved by the Postal Censorship Authorities before delivery.
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Colour photograph of children and teacher at Heylipol School in around 1965/66. L-R top: Gordon Bucher, William Weston, Duncan McLean. L-R middle: Betty Weston, Dollaidh Cameron (teacher), Anne Sinclair, Anne MacArthur, Lorelei MacLennan (the factor’s daughter), June Weston, Janet MacArthur, Effie Mackinnon. L-R front: Christine Mackinnon, Ian Mackinnon, Anne Bucher, Charles Bucher, Richard Maxwell, Christine Maxwell.
