Calendar for 1959 printed for the Century Building Society and used in the Royal Bank in Scarinish.
2003.50.7
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2003.49.1
Leather bag used by Royal Bank of Scotland staff.
Brown leather Gladstone bag used by Royal Bank of Scotland staff at the weekly branch opening in Balemartine (Donald Farquhar`s house) from 1950 until 1990.
2003.50.8
Three wooden coin bowls: two 115 mm x 150 mm (height x diameter) and one 86 mm x 122mm. Used in the Royal Bank in Scarinish during the 1950s.
2003.50.5
Bank bags
Leather, hessian and six paper bank bags for coins: 10/- copper, £5 silver, £1 two penny, 10/- 3d pieces (two), 50p one penny.
2003.49.3
Hardback book `Laurie`s New Decimal Tables of Simple Interest`. Book of decimal tables used in the Royal Bank in Scarinish to calculate interest.
2003.50.1
Metal tray with 25 metal cups used to count coins in the Royal Bank in Scarinish.
2003.50.2
Two weights (£5 and £10) for counting silver coins used by the Royal Bank in Scarinish.
2003.48.7
Harvests knots
Photograph of three harvests knots.
Courtesy of Mr Lachlan MacLean
These harvest knots were made in 2003 by Lachie MacLean of Kenovay who learned how to make them from his father. They would be plaited from straw at the end of harvest and either worn in a buttonhole, attached to horses’ harnesses or displayed in church.
A thick stem is selected from the base of the plant, often small oats or rye, the outer skin peeled away and cut into 18 inch lengths between the nodes. Two pieces are tied together at one end, plaited, then tied in a simple knot and secured with thread.
It is an old custom that seems not to have a well-known Gaelic name on Tiree and may have been imported from the Lowlands of Scotland by migrant harvest workers. It is also known as a True Lover’s Knot and in Ireland is worn at weddings.
1998.151.3
List of Balephetrish tenants 1834-1952.
List of Balephetrish tenants from 1834 to 1952, giving names, crofts numbers, grazing rights and Land Court orders. (2 copies plus 1 photocopied handwritten page)
1999.113.27
Black and white photograph of Gott Bay pier under construction.
Gott Bay pier under construction in the 1910s.
