Cutting the ham
Photograph of a Regatta Sports Day in the 1930s.
Courtesy of Mr Duncan MacInnes
The aim of the sport was that the participant would be blindfolded and given a knife, the ham would be swung around on a rope above them, and they would have to try to cut the rope so that the ham would fall.
Black and white photograph of Tiree regatta sports.
Cutting the ham at a Regatta Sports Day in the 1930s.
Tiree Regatta Club Cash Analysis Book.
Tiree Regatta Club Cash Analysis Book 1935-1984.
Photocopied newspaper obituary for Gordon Donald.
Obituary for Gordon Donald of Vaul, 1929-1988.
Photocopied list of plants growing on Tiree in the 20th century.
List of plants growing on Tiree in the 20th century, giving their location.
Paperback book `From Tiree to New Zealand
The memoirs of Dugald Lamont from Balemartine
Photocopied black and white newspaper photograph of Lord Bannerman.
Lord Bannerman (on the right), former president of An Comunn Gaidhealach, photographed with his father in 1938. Lord Bannerman spent his school holidays in Tiree with his grandfather and Aunt Flora at Ard Deas, Caoles. His daughter, Ray Michie, was Liberal MP for Argyll & Bute 1987-2001.
Black and white postcard of Cornaigmore School.
Postcard of Cornaigmore School.
Black and white photograph of Anne MacNeill nee MacLeod in the 1930s.
Anne MacNeill nee MacLeod, sister of the great-grandfather of Iain Macleod, Kilmoluaig, taken in the 1930s.
Book extract `The Flora of the Isle of Coll, Tiree and Gunna` by J. W. Heslop Harrison, Helena Heslop Harrison, W. A. Clark and R. B. Cooke.
List of the flora of Tiree, Coll and Gunna found during field trips by botanists from the University of Durham during 1937-1940.
