`Tooth` of a mechanical harvester
Hooked piece of iron thought to be one of a row of many `teeth` from the blade of a mechanical harvester (tractor- or horse-drawn). The teeth would have combed and separated the crop, while a blade running back and forth along the teeth would have cut the crop. Sold in pairs from Brown`s shop in Balemartine. Found in a fireplace in Kenovay.
Information from the Scottish Records Office dated 1986 regarding crofter agitation on Tiree in 1886.
Letter from Murdo MacDonald, archivist at the Scottish Records Office, dated 24/2/1986 to Sandy MacKinnon of Crossapol about his query regarding crofter agitation on Tiree in 1886, detailing the action raised by the Duke of Argyll, the trial and verdict and the cost of copies of the High Court Minute Book.
Black and white photograph of Alexander MacKechnie in the 1920s.
Alexander MacKechnie of Kilmoluaig with a lamb around 1926-7.
Tinted and retouched photograph of Catherine and Alexander Kennedy in the 1920s.
Catherine and Alexander Kennedy, parents of Donald Kennedy of Balevullin, in the 1920s.
Collection of Tiree and Coll District Council papers and minute books.
Collection of Tiree and Coll District Council papers and minute books dating from 1928 to 1974 found in the Council Offices at Crossapol, Tiree while spring-cleaning in 2004 and given to An Iodhlann by Social Worker Gordon Scott for safe-keeping.
Folder titled `Argyll County Council` containing correspondence with Tiree and Coll District Council 1928 – 1969.
Folder titled `Argyll County Council` containing correspondence with Tiree and Coll District Council 1928 – 1969 about piers, graveyards, schools, housing water supply and sewerage, war memorials, the airstrip on Coll, roads, ferry and air services.
Folder titled `War Graves` containing Tiree and Coll District Council papers dated from 1928 to 1950.
Folder titled `War Graves` containing Tiree and Coll District Council papers dated from 1928 to 1950, including a draft death certificate for the Chief Purser of the SS Volendam.
Black and white photograph of Scarinish.
View of Scarinish from outside the harbour. The building in the middle was originally a church, then used intermittently as a prison and latterly as a store by the owners of the Mary Stewart. It was pulled down to make roads during World War II. The Scarinish Hotel is on the extreme right.
The ‘Mary Stewart’ in Scarinish harbour.
Photograph of the schooner ‘Mary Stewart’ in Scarinish harbour in the early 20th century.
Courtesy of Mr Angus Munn
This photograph taken in the 1920s or 1930s shows the ‘Mary Stewart’ in Scarinish harbour with the Temperance Hotel on the right and MacArthurs’ general store on the left. Built by Barclay in Ardrossan in 1868, the sixty-four foot long ‘Mary Stewart’ was rigged as double-topsail schooner and had a tonnage of sixty-five.
Originally trading on the Irish coast, she was bought in 1908 for Donald MacLean of Scarinish by his relation, Dugald MacKinnon. Dugald was known as Dùghall an Òir (Dugald of the gold) because he had had been successful in the Australian Gold Rush.
Donald MacLean, with his sons as crew, traded up and down the West Coast of Scotland carrying coal and other cargo until the late 1930s when steam superseded sail. The remains of the ‘Mary Stewart’ can still be seen in Scarinish harbour.
Black and white photograph of the Mary Stewart in Scarinish harbour.
The Mary Stewart in Scarinish harbour with MacArthur`s Store in the background at the left and the Scarinish Hotel on the right, photographed in the early 20th century.
Black and white photograph of a postcard of the old mill at Cornaig.
The old mill at Cornaig which operated until the late 1930s.
