Large, leather-bound Brown’s Bible (1868) belonging to the Nisbet family of Heanish. Handwritten on the inside, on a Family Register page, are the names and dates of birth of the Nisbet children: Flora, Catherine, Joan, Allister and Robert.
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.
Black & white postcard photograph of a sketch of the old, hump-back bridge at Baugh, with the Doctor’s house and Hynish in the background.
Black & white photograph of Hynish pier and dry dock in around 1900.
Black & white postcard photograph of ‘Baca Bhabhainn’ sand dune at Ruaig around 1900.
Top half of a page from The Illustrated London News, Sept. 11, 1886, showing two engraving plates of scenes from Tiree, one looking west across Gott Bay from Ruaig(?), and the other of a tug of war in Scarinish(?) between sailors and marines who came to quell the ‘land agitation‘ on Tiree.
