Black and white photograph of Elizabeth Milne with Calum Mor.
Elizabeth Milne, Lady Frances Balfour’s grand-daughter, with Calum Mòr from Lodge Farm in the 1910s.
1997.159.1
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Dates: 1910s
1997.148.21
Black and white postcard of Heanish hospital.
The fever hospital on Heanish machair. Built in 1905 of corrugated iron over a wooden frame, it contained a two-bedded ward at either end with a kitchen, nurse`s room and bathroom in the centre. It was first used within months of opening when two families went down with diphtheria. By 1927, Dr Hunter reported it was only occasionally used and it was let out to a family on the condition that they vacated it at once if needed for patients. The hospital was last used in the 1940s, then let to Council roadmen and finally sold as a private house in the 1960s.
1997.148.24
Black and white postcard of drawing of Caoles.
Drawing of Caoles with cultivated fields, crofthouses, stackyards and a view of Coll in the background.
1997.148.36
Shooting party at the Scarinish Hotel around 1912
Photograph of a shooting party at the Scarinish Hotel around 1912.
Courtesy of Mr Angus MacLean
During the Victorian era and up to World War I, game shooting was a popular field sport. This photograph taken outside the Scarinish Hotel around 1912 shows a shooting party, probably attracted to Tiree by the huge numbers of common snipe.
Sir Hugh Gladstone wrote in his ‘Record Bags & Shooting Records’ of 1922 that Lord Elphinstone and a Mr J. Cobbold, who visited Tiree in the autumn of 1908 and 1909, on both occasions bagged over 1,000 snipe in ten days’ shooting.
Although shooting parties still come to Tiree in October through to January to shoot mainly geese and some snipe, their numbers are exceeded by bird-watchers keen to sight corncrakes, of which one third of the UK population can be found on the island.
Black and white photograph of a shooting party at the Scarinish Hotel.
Shooting party at the Scarinish Hotel around 1912. (Original in Filing Cabinet 2 drawer 1: 1997.178)
1997.148.3
Balck and white photograph of the postmistress and postmen at Scarinish Post Office in 1919.
The postmistress and postmen at Scarinish Post Office in 1919. L-R: (back) Margaret Robertson, Scarinish (postmistress); Lachland MacNeill; Donald MacKechnay; Hugh Lamont, Ruaig; (front) Archie MacLean, Scarinish; Donald MacDougall, Kilmoluaig; John Munn, Baugh.
1997.148.5
Black and white postcard of the Kirkapol Lodge, 1920s.
The Lodge at Kirkapol showing the original entrance in around the 1920s. The child in the photograph is probably Elizabeth Milne, the grandaughter of Lady Frances Balfour, the sister of the Duke of Argyll.
1997.148.6
Scarinish Post Office in 1919
Photograph of the postmistress and postmen at Scarinish Post Office in 1919.
Courtesy of Mr Angus MacLean
The postmistress, Margaret Robertson (centre right), is pictured seated beside veterinary surgeon, John MacDougall, outside the old Post Office in Scarinish which was originally established in 1802
The postal service was extremely irregular and uncertain until 1863 when mail packets were conveyed to and from Tiree at public expense. Telegraphy arrived in Tiree two years too late for reporters covering the Crofters’ War in 1886. They had to resort to carrier pigeon to send urgent despatches.
The first telephones were installed in Tiree in the mid-1920s but were restricted to official use for the transmission of telegrams. In 1941 the first public call box was installed at Crossapol for the benefit of the airfield construction workers.
Black and white photograph of the postmistress and postmen at Scarinish Post Office in 1919.
The postmistress and postmen at Scarinish Post Office in 1919. L-R: (standing) Archibald MacLean, `Bayview`, Scarinish; Donald MacDougall, Kilmoluaig; (in carriages) Hugh Lamont, Ruaig; Mary MacNeill; Jack Munn, Heanish; John MacDougall, vet; Margaret Robertson, Scarinish (postmistres); unknown; unknown. (Original photograph – 1997.178.1)
1997.141.1
Family tree for the descendants of Charles Alfred MacKinnon with a covering letter from his grandson.
Family tree for the descendants of Charles Alfred MacKinnon, born 1838 in Ruaig and died 1926 in Australia.
1997.142.2.1
Photocopied letter dated 1902 and a 1912 newspaper article about the boat slip at Balemartine.
(1) Letter from the fishermen of Balemartine dated 2/4/1902 to the County Clerk requesting assurances that the Council will maintain the boat slip at Balemartine once it is repaired, (2) newspaper article about donations made by the Duke of Argyll and Lord Archibald Campbell to the erection of the boat slip at Balemartine.
1997.144.1
Photocopied newspaper cutting about Captain Charles MacKinnon and transcription of the same.
Obituary for Captain Charles MacKinnon born in Ruaig in 1838 and died in Australia in 1926.