One of the ceramic red poppies from the display of 888,246 from the Tower of London in 2014 commemorating the centenary of the outbreak of the first world war. Each represented one British or colonial life lost. Bought and donated by Greta Travers who was posted to Tiree as a WAAF in 1945, during the second world war. The poppy was placed in the ground in front of the RAF Halifax memorial at Tiree’s airport for a while during 2015. See also 2017.12.2
Three handwritten Gaelic songs/poems by Rev Hector Cameron, Cornaigmore, around 1920. The first lin/title of each is (1) Air faillirinn o, ‘sna ho orinn o (title – Fear a’ bhata?), (2) Nach aithne shuit fhein?, (3) title – Naire graibh.
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Black and white portrait photograph of Reverend Hector Cameron, around 1915. Rev Cameron was born in Cornaigmore and became a Gaelic scholar, the editor of the book `Tiree Bards’, co-author of `The Handbook to the Islands of Coll and Tiree`, and writer of Gaelic poetry.
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 photograph of two well-dressed young girls with a scooter in 1915, probably members of the family of Catherine Campbell, Mannal. On the reverse is written “Kathleen and Elizabeth Robson. Taken in Newcastle, April 1915. With much love to dear Miss Campbell”, and addressed to “Miss C Campbell, Fairview, Mannal, Tiree”. 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 photograph of the Terrace at Balemartine around the 1910s, with a woman and pig in the foreground. From a collection of photographs from Mannal House.
