Transcript of a Police Report submitted to Tobermory Procurator Fiscal by John MacDougall (Constable) concerning the cutting and carrying of bent grass on the Island of Gunna in December 1873.
Statements are provided by: Lachlan MacDougall (shepherd) and Hugh MacLean Senior (crofter, Coalis [Caolas], Tiree).
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From the liveArgyll Archives in Lochgilphead, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
Transcript of a Police Report submitted to Tobermory Procurator Fiscal by John MacDougall (Constable) charging William Lachlan and Malcolm Gilchrist with Breach of the Public Peace on 14 November 1872. Lachlan (bower, Gallanach, Coll) and Gilchrist (farmer, Totaronald, Coll) are accused of fighting outside of the grocer shop occupied by Henry Whitelaw in Arinagour.
Captain Hector Lamont (Vaul, Tiree) and John Paterson (farmer, Arnabost, Coll) are named as witnesses.
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From the liveArgyll Archives in Lochgilphead, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
Transcript of a Police Report submitted to Tobermory Procurator Fiscal by John MacDougall (Constable) charging Flora MacPhail or MacKinnon with assault on 6 August 1872. Flora MacPhail is accused of assaulting Ann MacFadyen or MacDougall (widow, Vaul) with a duck. The report also charges MacPhail with assaulting Lilly Bella MacDougall (daughter of Ann MacFadyen, Vaul).
Ann MacFadyen or MacDougall (above), Lily Bella MacDougall (above) and Catherine MacLeod (daughter of Archibald MacLeod, Vaul) are named as witnesses and provide statements. The accused’s name is given as both MacPhee and MacPhail in this transcript.
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From the liveArgyll Archives in Lochgilphead, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
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.
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.
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.
Two large, well worn books titled ‘Songs of the Hebrides, volume 1’ and ‘More Songs of the Hebrides’ belonging to Sidney Herbert Sime (1865-1941), who was an English artist best known for his satirical artwork during the late Victorian period. One copy is signed S H Sime on an inner page, while the other is embossed S.H.S. on the cover.
Steel latch hook with wooden handle belonging to tailor Malcolm MacArthur, Balemartine. Latch hooks are traditionally used in rug-making.
Memorial for Constable Alexander Lamont (1843-1888) of Gortendonnel (Barrapol) erected by his friends and colleagues in the Lanarkshire Constabulary, at his grave in Old Monkland Cemetery, Coatbridge.
Colour photograph of a Lanarkshire Police helmet probably worn by Alexander Lamont of Gortendonnel, Tiree, during his service there in 1872-1888.
