Black & white postcard photograph of ‘Baca Bhabhainn’ sand dune at Ruaig around 1900.
2021.6.4
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Dates: 1930s
2021.5.1
Page from an unknown publication with a photograph titled ‘Major LA Clowes, Tenant of the Duke of Argyll’s shoot on the Isle of Tiree’, 1946. Major Legh Algernon Clowes (1901-1987) of Norbury Hall, near Ashbourne in Derbyshire, served in the 1st Derbyshire Yeomanary in 1933 and was the High Sheriff of Derbyshire.
2021.1.1
Softback book ‘Off the Beaten Track’ by Bob Chambers, 2018. Describes the role of roads and other infrastructure in the life or death of new crofting townships in remote Hebridean communities of the 1920s and 1930s. Includes information about Hynish, pp 94-100.
2020.59.1
Black & white postcard photograph of Gott Bay pier, in around 1930.
2020.62.2
Small hardback book in Gaelic ‘An Saoghal a ta ri Teachd / The World to Come’ or ‘Seallaidhean Nèimh agus Ifrinn / Visions of Heaven and Hell’ by John Bunyan, 1891. On the inside front cover is handwritten ‘Francis Wm Taylor, 26th Janry 1901’. Rev Taylor was a Baptist minister. The book was in the belongings of John Brown, Sliabh, Balephuil.
2020.61.2
Softback book ‘Off the Beaten Track’, by Bob Chambers, 2018. An in depth study of the issues surrounding infrastructure provision for new crofting townships in the 1920s and 1930s, and their role in the life or death of remote Hebridean communities, including Tiree.
2020.59.2
Scanned copy of a package label of Duncan MacKinnon & Son, General Merchants, Balephuil. Duncan MacKinnon and later his son, Alasdair, ran a large shop in Balephuil, which sold all manner of household items and petrol. It closed in 1974.
2020.56.5
Black & white photograph of a home-made sand yacht on Gott Bay in 1933. The yacht was made by Jimmy Burt of Glasgow, who is sitting in the yacht with his wife May.
2020.56.4
Black & white photograph of a ‘spotty’ house and barn at Gott/lower Vaul in 1933.
2020.56.3
Black & white photograph of Highland cows and horses in front of a black-roof house in 1933.
