Large black & white photograph of windsurfer Keith Dobney and others on a beach during the Tiree Wave Classic windsurfing championship in October 1989.
2022.16.3
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2022.15.2
Commemorative colour photo postcard of the ferry ‘Lord of the Isles’ on its last call at Tobermory in 1998. The ‘Lord of the Isles was the last ferry link between Tobermory and Coll & Tiree. The reverse is signed by the captain, K. Cameron, and date-stamped at the Tobermory post office at 10.45 on 5 April 1998.
2022.15.1
Colour photograph of merchant vessel ‘Isle of Tiree’ at Lyness pier, Hoy, Orkney Islands, in 2007. Originally built for fishing in 1960, this 131-ton wooden boat was bought by Highland Marine Ltd for general cargo and supplying fish farms. It sank at Lyness pier after being sold in Orkney.
2022.14.1
Black and white photo postcard of Scarinish Harbour, date stamped 1907.
2022.13.1
Metal drift calculator (isothermal calibration) used by an RAF navigator during WWII. Strapped to the upper thigh along with a roll of note paper, it was used for correcting the aircraft’s height and air speed according to air temperature. Found on moorland just north of Island House, it is thought to have fallen from one of the two aircraft that collided nearby in August 1944. On loan for displaying at Tiree Airport.
2022.12.2
Boatbuilders’ wooden clamp belonging to Donald MacIntyre, Gott (1925-2020). Donald used the clamp when building his boat, the ‘Isabella’. After the planks had been steamed, they were tightened by hitting a wooden wedge in at the top of the clamp.
2022.7.3
Colour photograph of a Nissen hut at the entrance to The Camp at Crossapol, in around 2000. Only the foundations of the Nissen hut remain. The Camp was the main site of RAF Tiree’s operations during WWII.
2022.7.2
Black & white photographic postcard of passengers aboard the ferry passing through the Sound of Mull on their way to/from Tiree in the 1920s.
2022.7.1
Black & white photographic postcard of the machair at Scarinish during the 1920s, including a thatched house and the back of MacArthur’s Store.
2022.6.3
Letter card written at Clachan Guest House at Baugh in the 1950s. Comprises a single long folded sheet containing six black & white photographs of Tiree.
