The Remembrance Service in 1921
Photograph of the Remembrance Service at the War Memorial in Scarinish in 1921.
Courtesy of Mrs Jean Lindsay
Picture of Hugh Cameron watching the Remembrance service held on Tiree at the Scarinish War Memorial.
Black and white photograph of Hugh Cameron at the 1921 Remembrance Day service.
Hugh Cameron (right) with two pipers, Hugh MacArthur of Tullymet and Hugh Campbell of Port Glasgow, at the 1921 Remembrance Day service at the War Memorial in Scarinish.
Black and white photograph of the Tiree Show in 1921.
The Tiree Show in 1921. (The young man is Archie MacKinnon, the two girls probably Lady Frances Balfour`s grand-daughters Catriona and Elizabeth Milne.)
Black and white photograph of Hugh MacArthur and Hugh Campbell at the 1921 Remembrance Day service.
Hugh MacArthur of Tullymet and Hugh Campbell of Port Glasgow playing the bagpipes at the 1921 Remembrance Day service at the War Memorial in Scarinish.
Black and white photograph Lady Frances Balfour at the Tiree Show in 1921.
Lady Frances Balfour at the Tiree Show in 1921.
Black and white photograph of Baca Mhic Illeathain in Scarinish.
The inlet known as Baca Mhic Illeathain in Scarinish with the MacCallum`s old thatched house in the background.
Black and white postcard of drawing of Caoles.
Drawing of Caoles with cultivated fields, crofthouses, stackyards and a view of Coll in the background.
Black and white photograph of the old harbour and lighthouse, Scarinish.
The old harbour and lighthouse in Scarinish.
Lifting potatoes at Ruaig
Postcard of the potato harvest at Ruaig in the mid-1920s.
Courtesy of Mr Angus MacLean
Potatoes were first grown in the Hebrides in 1743 when they were brought back to South Uist from Ireland by MacDonald of Clanranald. His tenants were unwilling to plant them and brought the crop to his house as they refused to eat them.
However, by 1800 potatoes had become the main food crop in the islands, including Tiree. They produce three to five times as many calories as grain from the same area of land. Potatoes are also a much more dependable crop than oats and barley, which can be flattened overnight by a storm.
Dependable, that is, until 1846, when the fungus causing potato blight caused widespread starvation in Europe. It is said that West Hynish was the only area of Tiree to be unaffected. This postcard shows Nancy and Alexander MacInnes in the foreground harvesting potatoes in Ruaig in the mid-1920s.
Black and white photograph of potato lifting at Ruaig.
Lifting potatoes at Ruaig, c. 1925-6, with Nancy and Alexander MacInnes in the foreground (Duncan MacInnes`s aunt and great-uncle).
Black and white photograph of Hugh MacLean of Caoles in 1920.
Hugh MacLean of Caoles in 1920.
Postcard of MacDonald`s stores at Pier Road, Scarinish.
MacDonald`s Stores at Pier Road, Scarinish.
