Photocopied leaflet `Tiree Food Producers Sent To Prison`.
Leaflet produced by the Highland Land League about eight Tiree men who were sent to prison in 1918 for occupying land in Balephetrish leased by Thomas Barr.
1999.155.1
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Dates: 1910s
2003.93.1
Black and white photograph of Catherine MacKinnon, Lodge Farm.
Catherine MacKinnon (1876-1950) of Lodge Farm, Kirkapol.
1999.69.1
Tiree Food Producers Sent To Prison
Transcription of a Highland Land League publication of 1918 titled ‘Tiree Food Producers Sent To Prison’.
Courtesy of Mr Hugh MacLeod
During World War I, the Government encouraged people to cultivate unused land. It also instructed the Board of Agriculture for Scotland in 1914 to break up large farms for returning servicemen. The Board decided to take over the lease of 137 acres of Balephetrish farm for small holdings.
However, Thomas Barr, the tenant of Balephetrish farm, claimed £1,243 in compensation which the Board refused to pay although it allocated the land to a number of applicants. By 1918, eight Tiree cottars could wait no longer and ploughed 30 acres of Balephetrish farm and planted potatoes and other crops.
They were arrested and taken to Oban where they were welcomed like heroes by the local branch of the Highland Land League. At the subsequent court hearing they were found guilty and sentenced to ten days in prison with the recommendation that ‘they be treated to the privileges of political prisoners’.
1999.123.1
Book `Laoidhean Molaidh` by Rev. Alan MacDougall.
Gaelic hymns of praise written by the Rev. Alan MacDougall of Caoles.
1998.89.14
Photograph of Donald Archie MacLean, Millhouse, Cornaigmore, and family ca. 1910
Black & white photograph of L-R: Neil MacLean, Donald MacLean, Annie MacLean, and Donald Archie MacLean, Millhouse, Cornaigmore, in his sailor`s uniform around 1910. Neil was the father of Neil Beag, Kenovay, and of Lachie MacLean, Corrairigh, Cornaig(?). Annie was the mother of Ailig Beag, Heylipol. Donald Archie was the father of Archie Dubh, Kenovay (?) and possibly also of Donald Archie MacLean, butcher, Kenovay.
1998.229.1
Brass letter-opener commemorating the Battle of the Somme, made from bullet casings and inscribed “1918 Somme” on the blade, although the original inscription appears to have been “so eronne”, which could be a person’s name or meaning ‘so wrong’. The handle is inscribed with “Villers Brettoneaux”, with the digits 3, 16, S67 and a symbol on the base.
1998.209.2
1998.209.3
1998.207.3
Journal extract `The Birds of Tiree – Additional Records` by Annie C. Jackson.
Notes on birds seen in September 1914 by Annie C. Jackson.
1998.267.1
Hugh and Archibald Campbell in 1911
Photograph of Hugh and Archibald Campbell in 1911.
Courtesy of Mrs Mairi Brady
Hugh and Archibald Campbell were the sons of John Campbell from Garaphail in Cornaigmore and his wife, Flora MacEachern, a daughter of the blacksmith in Cornaigbeg. Hugh, on the left, became a chemist and worked in Port Glasgow.
His brother Archie, who was born in Johnstone in 1897, played as a full back for Norwich City Football Club, making his debut against Plymouth Argyle in August 1924. Captain of Norwich City’s Reserves, he played his final game for the ‘Canaries’ in 1928.
Archie worked for forty years at Laurence Scott & Electromotors, retiring as an assistant production manager. He died in 1987.
Black and white photograph of Hugh and Archie Campbell of Cornaigbeg.
L-R: Hugh and Archibald Campbell of Cornaigbeg in 1911. Archie (1897-1987) played as full back for Norwich City Football Club. (Original in Filing Cabinet 3 drawer 2)