Black and white postcard of Baugh Bay.
Photograph of Baugh Bay from the west showing the Baptist Church and Baugh Farmhouse.
1997.148.4
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Dates: 1920s
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.
1997.148.21
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.
1997.148.27
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.
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.
1997.148.28
Black and white photograph of the old harbour and lighthouse, Scarinish.
The old harbour and lighthouse in Scarinish.
1997.148.33
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).
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.
1997.144.1
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.
2002.136.1
Copy of poster for Danish bacon dated 15/2/1926.
Poster from the Danish Bacon & Co-operative Trading Company, Leith, listing products and prices, originally from Malcolm MacArthur`s shop in Balinoe.