Black and white photograph of crofters shearing sheep in the east end of Tiree.
Crofters shearing sheep at ? in the beginning of the 20th century.
1999.93.5
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Dates: 1910s
1999.93.6
Black and white photograph of a horse in the east end of Tiree.
A horse photographed in the east end of Tiree in the beginning of the 20th century.
1999.93.7
Black and white photograph of a woman driving a horse and trap.
Unknown woman driving a horse and trap, photographed in the east end of Tiree in the beginning of the 20th century.
1999.93.8
Black and white photograph of a crofter carrying a bag of fleece.
A crofter carrying a bag of fleece on his back at Scarinish farm at the beginning of 20th century.
1999.93.9
Black and white photograph of a croft`s vegetable garden.
The vegetable garden of an east end croft in the beginning of the 20th century.
2001.172.1
Paperback book `The Furrow Behind Me` told by Angus MacLellan and translated by John Lorne Campbell.
Autobiography of Angus MacLellan, born on South Uist in 1869.
1999.207.3
Hardback book `Fit for Heroes?` by Leah Leneman.
Land settlement in post-World War I Scotland.
2000.206.1
Audio cassette recording of Margaret Green of Mannal talking to Maggie Campbell in 2000.
Margaret Green of Mannal talks to Maggie Campbell in 2000 about her childhood holidays in Mannal and playing with the other children on the shore, the people who lived in Mannal, the fishing boats and sharing the catch, fishing for sea-bream in June, her blind great-grandfather whose house was set on fire during the Clearances, a story about the curse put on the factor of the time, visiting relatives and friends, and returning to Glasgow laden with parcels of eggs, butter, cheese, potatoes and sometimes a chicken.
2004.38.17
Nurse Flora MacLean of Balevullin
Photograph of Nurse Flora MacLean of Balevullin.
Courtesy of Mrs Flora MacKinnon
Flora MacLean of Balevullin was a nurse in Glasgow at the beginning of the 20th century. While working with children in the city she contracted tuberculosis. Her career finished, she left the pollution of the city for the sunshine and fresh air of her native island.
At the back of her thatched house in Balevullin she set up a tent where she lived much of the year. Her house was one of the few on Tiree with a back door which faces west, the direction of the prevailing wind. Most Tiree houses, until recently, have been built ‘back to the wind, face to the sun’.
She died in 1918 and is buried at Soroby. Her niece, Flora MacKinnon, also lives in Balevullin and is one of the island’s district nurses.
Black and white photograph of nurse Flora MacLean of Balevullin.
Nurse Flora MacLean of Balevullin who died in the 1920s, an aunt of nurse Flora MacKinnon of Balevullin.
2004.38.18
Black and white photograph of siblings Marion, Neil and Maggie MacLean of Balevullin in the 1910s.
L-R: Siblings Marion, Neil and Maggie MacLean of Balevullin in the 1910s. Marion died of flu in 1918, Duncan became Tiree`s first vet and Maggie became a teacher and married Ernest Richardson.
