Thatching hook found on top of a wall at Silversands, Vaul.
2005.125.1
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2005.119.2
Bookmark, possibly leather, from the Lodge Hotel.
2005.107.1
Iron Age strike-a-light.
Palm-sized round brown pebble with deep straight grooves on both sides. An Iron Age multifunctional tool: the grooves were used as a ‘strike-a-light’, the edges for hammering, and the flat surfaces for rubbing hide. Found near the top of Dun Mor, Vaul, on 27th July 2005 by holiday-maker Kenny Nelson. It may also have been used by sail-makers for sharpening their needles.
2005.102.3
Wartime helmet.
Wartime helmet, found at the old Fever Hospital in Heanish. (Given to donor by Rosemary Noon)
2005.99.1
Sail from the boat `The Barrach`.
Sail, hand-made in Tiree, from the boat `The Barrach` owned by John MacDonald of Mannal, the grandfather of Joan MacArthur. He sailed the boat from Barra to Tiree.
2005.102.1
Shovel used for ditching
Round headed shovel used for digging ditches, found at the old Fever Hospital in Heanish. (Given to donor by Rosemary Noon)
2005.98.2
Colour photograph of a Heron airplane landing at Tiree airport.
A Heron airplane landing at Tiree airport.
2005.98.9
Colour photograph of the interior of Heron G-ANXB at Newark Museum in 2000.
The interior looking towards the cockpit of Heron G-ANXB at Newark Museum in 2000.
2005.98.4
Communication Officer John MacLeod
Photograph of John MacLeod at the radio station on Ben Hough in the late 1950s.
Courtesy of Mr Andrew MacLeod
A Communication Officer with Ministry of Civil Aviation, John MacLeod came to Tiree in the late 1940s. Initially he was based in the wartime Control Tower at the airport but subsequently relocated to a building at the top of Ben Hough.
The purpose of the station was to provide radio communications and position fixing services to aircraft flying over the West of Scotland and the Hebrides. In those days air to ground communications were by Morse code and all aircraft carried a radio officer.
If there was an ambulance flight to Tiree or one of the other islands, John would be called out, even in the middle of the night, and would have to climb the steps to the top of Ben Hough, in darkness and often rain and gales.
Black and white photograph of Communications Officer John MacLeod at the Hough radio station.
John MacLeod at the radio station at the top of Ben Hough in the late 1950s. A Communication Officer with Ministry of Civil Aviation, John came to Tiree in 1947 or 1948. The station provided radio communications and position fixing services to aircraft flying over the West of Scotland and the Hebrides.
2005.95.5
Colour photograph of the ruins at Am Fang Dubh at Kennavara in 2004.
The ruins at Am Fang Dubh at Kennavara where fishermen stayed in the summer, photographed by Dr John Holliday in 2004.
