Black and white photograph of the Mary Stewart in Scarinish harbour in 1937.
The Mary Stewart in Scarinish harbour in 1937.
1999.24.31
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Dates: 1930s
1999.144.57
Handwritten list of companies and aircraft operating flights to and fromTiree airport 1934-1994.
The companies and aircraft operatin flights to and from Tiree between 1934 and 1994, compiled by Alec MacArthur, Heylipol.
1999.144.59
Reprint of article `Scottish Air Ambulance Service` by Robert McKean, Director of BEA.
The history of the Scottish Air Ambulance Service from 1933 to 1961, detailing aircraft used, funding, number of flights/patients/mileage per year.
2000.24.1
Black and white photograph of the Mary Stewart in Scarinish harbour.
The Mary Stewart beached in Scarinish harbour, taken in the late 1930s early 1940s.
1999.193.11
Black and white photograph of Scarinish School in 1936.
Scarinish School, 1936. L-R: (back row) Miss Jean MacFarlane (teacher), Mr Dixon Bennett (trainee teacher), Angus Munn, Donald MacDonald, Lachlan McFadyen, Donald MacLean, Lachan MacKinnon, John MacDonald, Katherine C Nisbet (Head Teacher); (second row) Neil MacKinnon, John Peter McDonald, Annie MacFarlane, Cathie MacDonald, Mona MacDonald, Hetty MacDonald, Flora MacFarlane, Cathie Munn, Archibald MacDonald; (third row) Ishobel Campbell (seated), Maimi Miller, Netta MacLean, Katie MacLean, Catriona MacKinnon, May MacArthur, Mary MacKinnon, Anne MacArthur (seated); (front row) Willie McPhee, John MacDonald, Iain MacDonald, Donald McDonald, John C McLean.
1999.193.14
Black and white photograph of the M.V. `Lochearn`.
M.V. Lochearn arriving at Tiree around 1930-31.
1999.193.15
Black and white photograph of a coal puffer.
Puffer on the beach discharging coal into horse-drawn carts. Location and year unknown, probably 1930s.
2002.181.1
Black and white photograph of Margaret MacLean of Balevullin.
Margaret MacLean of Balevullin (m.s. Richardson) after graduating with an M.A. from Glasgow University around 1930.
2000.12.1
Typewritten account of donor`s husband`s time in the RAF on Tiree, with map of the Battle of the Atlantic.
Wife`s account of husband`s RAF experiences on Tiree when posted there during the Second World War. Information on the role of the RAF as well as the food, weather and limited laundry facilities!
2000.21.1
Laundry day
Photograph of Flora Ann MacLean of Greenhill drying linen on the machair.
Courtesy of Ms Mary Brown
Flora Ann MacLean of Greenhill pictured drying sheets and blankets on the machair. Each summer a good day was chosen for the household to wash the bedclothes.
Black and white photograph of Flora Ann MacLean, Greenhill.
Flora Ann MacLean of Greenhill, grandmother of Mary, Donald Archie and Archie Brown, bleaching linen on the machair. (Died in 1934)