Dates: 1850s

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2021.54.2

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Transcript of Inventory of Precognition against Donald MacKinnon (Arinagour, Coll), Donald Macfarlane (Arinagour, Coll) and Lachlan MacFadyen (Arnabost, Coll) regarding the theft of silk ribbons from the wreck of the Barque Mandane in August 1850. The Mandane was wrecked at Crossapol, Isle of Coll, on 19 August 1850.

Statements are provided by:

Donald MacKinnon (Arinagour, Coll), Angus McFadyen (crofter, Arinagour, Coll)
Donald Macfarlane (Arinagour, Coll)
Lachlan MacFadyen (Arnapost, Coll)
Niel McLean (Crofter, Kilbride, Coll)
Catherine McFarlane (Arinagour, Coll)
Norman McLean (Labourer, Treeland, Coll)
Lachlan Johnstone (Ground Officer, Cliad, Coll)
Niel McLean (Tenant, Crossapol, Coll)
Niel Smith (Agent in Tobermory, now residing in Glasgow)
William Ewing (Insurance Broker, Glasgow)
James Dalzell (Agent for Underwriters, Glasgow)
Allan Cameron (Police Officer, Tobermory)
Niel McPhail (Sheriff Officer, Tobermory)

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From the liveArgyll Archives in Lochgilphead, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.

2021.34.1

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Simple white clay pipe adorned with three metal bands marked ‘ECB London’, ‘MS’ and ‘U’, and ‘EP’, which probably came from other pipes.

Dr D A Higgins of the Society for Pipe Research, told us that it is a typical Scottish clay pipe of late C19th or early C20th date.  Thick, chunky pipes like this were favoured in Scotland and made by many different manufacturers.  Those from the larger firms often had a pattern number on the left hand side of the stem [this one does not].

The metal bands are nothing to do with the pipe, but could well have come from others. Briar pipes typically had a metal band like these to join the wooden bowl with a vulcanite stem. Some, more expensive, clays with stems of vulcanite or other materials also had a metal band.  The diamond-shaped band could have come from a ‘Bulldog’ pattern of pipe, which had a diamond-shaped stem section. These bands would have been made since the mid C19th as composite pipes only really came into circulation after around 1850.

2021.50.2

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Digitised copy of a marine and landscape map of Tiree. The landscape is depicted in detail, including crofts, field boundaries, schools, churches, mills, shops, smithies, fanks, quarries, stores, kelp sheds, Middleton Chemical Works, ruins, standing stones, pasture, blown sand, raised beaches. No surveyor is listed.

From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.

2021.28.1

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Academic paper on ‘The Natural and Economic History of Kelp’ by Archibald and Nan Clow, published in the Annals of Science in 1947. Although Tiree is not mentioned in the paper, it gives an excellent account of the kelp industry, which boomed on Tiree during the 1800s.

Click here for Page 1. The full text is available at www.tandfonline.com/loi/tasc20 and a printed copy is held in An Iodhlann.

2019.103.1

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Large black & white studio photograph of an unidentified young woman in around the late 1800s.

The portrait was donated by the aunt (by marriage) of Denis Garnham, who came to Tiree in the late 1950s to work on OS surveys, and then at the bank. The portrait hung in a Nissen hut at Balinoe in which Denis lived while on Tiree, and he took it with him when he left the island. Denis referred to the picture as “the little old lady of Balinoe”, and he took it all over Scotland with him.

We have tried to find out who she is and why she meant so much to Denis, but these remain a mystery. If you have any ideas, we would love to hear from you.

The photograph was originally mounted on canvas in a large ornate wood and gilt frame, which had to be removed due to its poor condition.

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