Two small identical cards collected from Brooke Bond tea packets in the late 1960’s, showing an illustration of the tea clipper ‘Taeping’ on one side and with information on the other. The Taeping was captained by Donald MacKinnon, Heanish, during the Great China Tea Race of 1866.
VHS video ‘Sith is Sonas’ (peace and contentment), 1999
Small hardback book ‘Xenophon’s Anabasis’, 1892. Greek school text belonging to Donald MacDonald who probably had Mannal connections. Handwritten on the inside front cover is “Donald MacDonald, High School, Glasgow”. From a collection from Mannal House.
Black and white photograph of the other side of MacLean’s Cross in Soroby Cemetery, taken around the 1930s. From a collection of photographs from Mannal House.
Black and white photograph of one side of MacLean’s Cross in Soroby Cemetery, taken around the 1930s. From a collection of photographs from Mannal House.
Black and white photograph of a ferry alongside Gott pier around the 1910s. From a collection of photographs from Mannal House.
Black and white postcard portrait photograph of a family outside their thatched house in Mannal in the early 1900s. From a collection of photographs from Mannal House.
Black and white postcard photograph of uniformed naval officers seated around a table, presumably in the officers’ mess of a ship, around the 1930s. From a collection of photographs from Mannal House.
Black & white portrait photograph on a postcard, of a soldier in uniform during WWI. On the reverse it reads “To Auntie Katie from Jack I am send you to difernt ones I thought you might like to see him in full uniform he has gone to the front from Annie Campbell”. From a collection of photographs from Mannal House. The soldier may be Private H. MacDonald, who died in action in 1916.
Cardboard box (‘spiced beef and tongue’) containing two lumps of hardened yellowish-brown wax found in Mannal House. Probably whale blubber, which would have had various domestic and croft uses, e.g. preservation of leather harness.
