Dates: 1930s

2007.47.1

Six stud books for Clydesdale stallions 1934-1944.

Six stud books for Clydesdale stallions between 1934 and 1944, giving a description of the stallion, its pedigree and charges for service.

2006.169.1

Admissions Register for Ruaig School 1919-1969, giving date of admission, pupils’ full name and date of birth, name of parent or guardian, relationship, address, name of last school, date of leaving, and cause of leaving or where gone. Birth dates range from 1911 to 1963. Lists the previous schools of 76 boarded-out children. Includes four separate daily registers for years ending July 1967, 68, 69 and 70, recorded by teacher J M McFarlane, and miscellaneous other papers.

 

 

This, and all other school admission registers that we held, has now been returned to Argyll & Bute Council archives

 

2006.138.1

Black and white photograph of Malcolm Campbell in 1930.

Malcolm Campbell in 1930. This photograph was sent as a postcard to his sister Marion Campbell in Mannal and was written aboard the S.S. `The Marquis` in Dublin. Malcolm was godfather to Catriona Cowling nee Stewart of Barrapol.

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2006.112.1

Photocopy of the revenue account for the Gott Bay Pier Trust in 1936.

The revenue account for the Gott Bay Pier Trust for the year up to 28th March 1936.

2006.108.1

Copied Register of Admissions for Ruaig School, 1919-1969.

Register of Admissions for Ruaig School, 1919-1969, giving pupils date of birth, name of parent or guardian, address, name of last school, date of leaving, and cause of leaving or where gone.

 

 

This, and all other school admission registers that we held, has now been returned to Argyll & Bute Council archives

2005.148.1

Copy of black and white photograph of Balemartine School around 1934-5.

Balemartine School, around 1934-5.
L-R: (back row) Hector MacLean, John MacFadyen, Willie Lamont, Hugh MacFarlane, John MacKay, Calum Brown, Murdoch Sinclair, Alick MacKay, Arthur Straker, John MacFadyen, (2nd back row from boy at extreme left) Alastair MacDonald, Mary MacLean, Annabel MacFadyen, Alix MacLean, Mary MacDonald, Netta MacKay, Ina MacFadyen, Cathie MacKay, Netta Wool, Sarah MacKinnon, (2nd front row standing) Flora MacFadyen, Cathie Sinclair, Effie MacDonald, unknown, Phem. MacNeill, Isobel Campbell, Flora MacFadyen, May MacDonald, Morag MacKinnon, Effie B. MacDonald, Katie Ann Lamont, Hector Brown, (front row) Calum MacLean, Donald Wool, Neil Sinclair, Walter MacKay, Donald MacFadyen, Alasdair Sinclair, John Brown, Allan MacFadyen, Duncan Wool. (Copy in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer 4)

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2005.138.1

Neil and Donald MacKinnon of Brock in their skiff, the ‘Tunnag’

Photograph of Neil and Donald MacKinnon of Brock in their skiff, the ‘Tunnag’, in the 1930s.

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Courtesy of Mr Alasdair Sinclair

Neil MacKinnon, holding aloft a lobster, and his brother Donald, both from Brock, are pictured in their skiff, the ‘Tunnag’, in the early 1930s. The old men were very fussy about placing the single-entrance creels precisely so that the entrance faced the rocks where the lobsters were hiding.

Their great-nephew Alasdair Sinclair remembers, as a ten year old boy, having the job of rowing the boat while Neil placed the creels. The ‘Tunnag’ was eight feet wide with long, narrow-bladed oars. While he was trying to manoeuvre the boat, the pernickety old man would be saying, ‘Chan eil sin ceart idir. Feuch a-rithist e!’ (That’s not right at all. Do it again!)

Lobsters often hide inshore at low tide in small crevices in the rocks called ‘faichean’. Knowledge of their whereabouts were kept secret and passed down through the family.

Black and white photograph of Neil and Donald MacKinnon of Brock in the early 1930s.

L-R: Neil MacKinnon of Brock, holding aloft a lobster, and his brother Donald, both from Brock, in the skiff `Tunnag` in the early 1930s. (Neil and Donald were brothers of Alasdair Sinclair`s grandmother.)

2005.138.2

Black and white photograph of William MacKinnon of Brock in the early 1930s.

William MacKinnon of Brock making a lobster creel in the late 1920s or early 1930s. William was the brother of Neil and Donald in photo G191. Taigh Uilleim in Brock is named after him.

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