Colour photograph of a road sign from Ireland found washed up on Hough Bay in December 2020. Cúrsa timpill is Irish Gaelic for detour – a very long detour indeed!
2021.27.1
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2021.25.1
Newspaper cutting advertising the private sale of the whole of Tiree by the 10th Duke of Argyll in 1951, with images of Island House and Balephuil Bay. The island was not sold, and remained in the property of the Dukes of Argyll.
2021.24.2
Green bakelite and glass Bel Jubilee Cream Maker belonging to Mabel Kennedy, Balephuil (Mabel MacArthur’s mother). Made by Blacklers of Liverpool in 1934-6. Includes an instructions leaflet (stored separately).
2021.24.1
Coverless copy of ‘The British Women’s Cookery Book’, 1906 (2nd edition), edited by Mrs Ebeneezer (Elizabeth) MacLean, Stirling, and belonging to Donald MacArthur, Ibrox, who opened The Glassary Restaurant at Sandaig with his wife, Mabel. On the Introduction page Donald has written his name and his address in Glasgow.
The book was compiled for sale at the British Women’s Temperance Association Bazaar, which was held in Glasgow in 1905. Its aim was to help “spread knowledge of, and interest in, that efficiency of home management which affects the happiness of people, and their moral wellbeing”.
2021.22.3
Colour postcard from around 1980, of a thatched house with a well and pump in the foreground.
2021.22.1
Colour photograph of Mairi MacKinnon, Parkhouse, Balephetrish having dinner at the Lodge Hotel in around 2000, with Dr John Holliday on the left.
2021.22.5
Original sepia postcard of Scarinish in the 1920s, with the school right of centre (the larger building), and the Reading Room (now An Iodhlann) on the extreme right.
2021.21.1
21 small pieces of bog iron iron found by Dr John Holliday at Pàirc na Coille, Balephuil, in 2021. Bog iron ore occurs naturally in wet ground associated with sand. It was refined and used by Iron Age settlers to make tools etc.
2021.18.2
Steel latch hook with wooden handle belonging to tailor Malcolm MacArthur, Balemartine. Latch hooks are traditionally used in rug-making.
2021.11.5
Colour photograph of the former Mission Hall / Missionary House in Balephuil.
