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.
2021.6.6
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Dates: 1900s
2021.6.5
Black & white photograph of Hynish pier and dry dock in around 1900.
2021.6.4
Black & white postcard photograph of ‘Baca Bhabhainn’ sand dune at Ruaig around 1900.
2021.5.1
Page from an unknown publication with a photograph titled ‘Major LA Clowes, Tenant of the Duke of Argyll’s shoot on the Isle of Tiree’, 1946. Major Legh Algernon Clowes (1901-1987) of Norbury Hall, near Ashbourne in Derbyshire, served in the 1st Derbyshire Yeomanary in 1933 and was the High Sheriff of Derbyshire.
2021.2.4
Original copy of ‘Tales from Tiree’ retold by Niall M Brownlie, Barrapol (1925-2015), from The Scots Magazine, January 1984.
2021.2.1
Softback book ‘All Built to the Same Pattern’ by Bob Chambers, 2020, about croft house design in the Hebrides between 1900 and 1939. Examining why and how they were built, and their legacy.
2021.1.3
Hardback book ‘Cul-taic an T-saighdear’ (soldier’s support) by Donald Tulloch MacKay, Free Church minister on Tiree in the late 1800s. Reproduction of an out-of-print original religious manuscript in Gaelic, held in the National Library of Scotland (1935) and Lauriston Castle Library.
2007.101.4
Large, oval, convex, hand-coloured portrait photograph of Rev Hector MacKinnon, Kirkapol (1866-1913). Formerly mounted in a wooden frame but with only the convex glass cover remaining.
2020.62.4
Hardback book ‘John G Paton – The Missionary Hero of the New Hebrides’ by Charles D Michael, ca 1900, about the life and times of Rev John Gibson Paton of Kirkmahoe, pioneering minister in the South Pacific Islands (now Vanuatu) in the mid 1800s. On the inside front cover is written ‘Malcolm Brown 1st Prize 1933’ and John Brown, Balephuil, Tiree. From the house of John Brown, The Sliabh, Balephuil.
2020.62.3
Hardback book ‘Lord Clive’, 1901, composed from essays by MacAulay about the life of Lord Robert Clive (b. 1725), founder of the British empire in India in the 1700s. On the inside front cover is handwritten ‘This book belongs to Mr John Brown, The Sliabh, Balephuil, Tiree’ and stamped with his name next to ‘Balemartine P Sch’.