Black and white photograph of Neil MacLean of Balevullin with two unknown women.
Policemen Neil MacLean (1893-1961) of Balevullin with two unknown women, probably taken in the 1920s.
2004.38.8
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Dates: 1920s
2004.38.9
Black and white photograph of teacher Maggie Richardson nee MacLean in the 1920s or 30s.
Teacher Maggie Richardson (1907-1997) nee MacLean outside Sackhill, Ruaig in the 1920s or 30s.
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Nurse Flora MacLean of Balevullin
Photograph of Nurse Flora MacLean of Balevullin.
Courtesy of Mrs Flora MacKinnon
Flora MacLean of Balevullin was a nurse in Glasgow at the beginning of the 20th century. While working with children in the city she contracted tuberculosis. Her career finished, she left the pollution of the city for the sunshine and fresh air of her native island.
At the back of her thatched house in Balevullin she set up a tent where she lived much of the year. Her house was one of the few on Tiree with a back door which faces west, the direction of the prevailing wind. Most Tiree houses, until recently, have been built ‘back to the wind, face to the sun’.
She died in 1918 and is buried at Soroby. Her niece, Flora MacKinnon, also lives in Balevullin and is one of the island’s district nurses.
Black and white photograph of nurse Flora MacLean of Balevullin.
Nurse Flora MacLean of Balevullin who died in the 1920s, an aunt of nurse Flora MacKinnon of Balevullin.
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Maggie MacLean (1907 -1997)
Photograph of Maggie MacLean of Balevullin.
Courtesy of Mrs Flora MacKinnon
Maggie MacLean of Balevullin was the Dux of Oban High School in 1925 and later graduated as a teacher. She taught locally in Ruaig School and then moved to Glasgow where she married Ernest Richardson.
Black and white photograph of siblings Maggie MacLean of Balevullin in the 1910s.
Maggie MacLean (1907-1997) of Balevullin on the day she graduated as a teacher in the late 1920s. Maggie was Dux of Oban High School in 1925, taught in Ruaig School then moved to Glasgow and married Ernest Richardson.
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Black and white photograph of policemen Neil MacLean of Balevullin in the 1910s.
Policemen Neil MacLean (1893-1961) of Balevullin, father of nurse Flora MacKinnon, photographed in Glasgow probably in the 1920s.
1999.291.16
Paperback book `Tales from Barra told by the Coddy`.
The tales and stories of John MacPherson, 1876-1955, one of the most renowned storytellers and characters of the Western Isles and the inspiration for `Whisky Galore`.
De-accessioned 1.3.2026.
1997.272.14
Paperback book `Crowdie and Cream` by Finlay J. MacDonald.
An account of a childhood spent in Harris in the years after World War I.
1999.291.26
Hardback book `The Song of the Sandpiper` by J. Morton Boyd.
Autobiography of J. Morton Boyd.
1997.272.11
Paperback book `Reminiscences of an Orkney Parish` by John Firth.
An account of crofting life in Orkney in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
1999.291.29
Hardback book `Hebridean Island – Memories of Scarp` edited by A. Duncan.
An account of a childhood spent on Scarp off the west coast of Harris, illustrated with black and white photographs.