Hardback book `To Introduce the Hebrides` by Iain E. Anderson.
Account by the author of a voyage round the Hebrides, Tiree described on pp 141-46.
2003.60.8
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Dates: 1930s
1999.111.7
Cornaig Post Office
Photograph of the post office at Cornaigmore.
Courtesy of Mr Hector MacPhail
The sub-post office at Cornaigmore was opened in 1896. The GPO brought in a telegraph line in the 1920s and installed a telephone in the nearby school when the Met Office opened a weather station there.
After the death of the postmaster in the mid-1950s, the office moved to Balevullin for some twenty-five years. It was re-opened on the original site in Cornaig in 1972 along with a general store and a popular restaurant called the Cèilidh Café. Two years later, they were all destroyed by fire.
In 1979 the post office was re-opened in Kilmoluaig. The Cornaig buildings were renovated in the 1980s as a single dwelling which for a few years also housed the Gaelic Playgroup. It was bought by the local council in the 1990s and converted into two council houses.
Black and white postcard of Cornaigmore Post Office.
Cornaigmore Post Office, probably between the World Wars.
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Black and white photograph of Scarinish harbour.
Scarinish harbour, probably in the 1930s.
2003.46.1
Booklet `1935-1945 The War Dead of the British Commonwealth and Empire`.
Register of the names of those who fell in the 1939-1945 war and are buried in cemeteries in Argyll, Bute and Inverness.
1998.163.1
Tiree Roll of Honour for 1939-1945.
Roll of Honour for those who lost their lives during World War II.
1999.113.8
Black and white photograph of the MV `Lochearn` approaching Tiree in 1934.
MV `Lochearn` approaching Tiree in 1934.
1999.113.18
Black and white photograph of one of the Kirkapol chapels in 1936.
One of the Kirkapol chapels in 1936.
1999.113.23
Gott Bay pier in the 1920s
Photograph of a pig being hoisted aboard a steamer at Gott Bay pier in the 1920s.
Courtesy of Mrs Grace Campbell
In this photograph taken in the 1920s, a pig is being hoisted by a rope sling aboard a small steamer at Gott Bay pier. Canvas slings were more commonly used, but even so the pigs used to scream most horribly while in the air.
The Statistical Account of 1845 records that ‘a great number of pigs have been reared in this parish… They are generally exported alive chiefly to Glasgow and Greenock… Last spring upwards of 500 were shipped off from this island.’
The Agricultural Statistics for Tiree show that in 1867 there were only 260 pigs on the island. In 1910, the numbers had increased to 360, half of which were breeding sows. However, after 1910 the numbers declined steadily and by the mid-1960s there were none on the island
Black and white photograph of a pig being hoisted off a boat.
A pig being hoisted on or off a boat, probably taken in the 1930s.
1999.113.4
MacArthur’s shop in Scarinish
1999.113.25
Black and white photograph of puffer discharging coal into horse-drawn carts.
Puffer discharging coal into horse-drawn carts, probably in the 1930s or 1940s.
