Black & white photograph of Donald MacLean (Donald the butcher) and Cathie Omand née MacMaster on the cross-bar of Donald’s bicycle in Kenovay in the late 1930s.
2003.195.13
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Dates: 1930s
1997.325.1
Ship`s wheel from the schooner `Mary Stewart`, the remains of which are still visible in Scarinish Harbour.
1999.327.1
Cheese press with iron screw set into a stone base approximately 580 x 500 x 180 mm used to press cheese in a vat to extract the liquid. (Given to donor by Donald MacLean, Ardbeg.) Similar to the one shown in photograph X34
2000.182.16
Photocopied poem `Prayer` by Alick MacCallum, Vaul.
Peom by Alick MacCallum of Vaul dated 14/6/1939.
2000.183.1
Photocopied extract `The history of the seaweed industry: the alginate industry` by Ernest Booth.
The commercial uses of alginate, Curtis Stanford and various commercial ventures including Kelco.
2000.156.7
Photocopied extract from unknown publication about the flora of Coll, Gunna and Tiree.
Results of a field study carried out by the Department of Botany, King`s College, University of Durham during 1939 and 1940.
2000.152.4
Newspaper article about former policeman Donald Campbell.
Article about former Chief Inspector Donald Campbell from Tiree who joined the Glasgow Police in 1923.
2003.186.1
Photocopied newspaper article about Church of Scotland missionary John Gillies.
Article dated 10/4/1954 about the retiral of Church of Scotland missionary John Gilles after 17 years service on Tiree and a ceremony held at Cornaigmore School.
2003.185.4
Black and white photograph of hay-making in the 1930s.
Haymaking in the 1930s. L-R: Mairi Paterson (m.s. Campbell); visitor Iain MacDonald from Glasgow; Iain’s father, Mr MacDonald; Iain Paterson, Mairi’s brother; Harry Skelton; George Paterson of Crossapol, father of Mairi and Iain.
2003.185.5
George Paterson’s byre
Photograph of George Paterson’s byre at Crossapol in the 1930s.
Courtesy of Mrs Mairi Campbell
George Paterson and Archie Kennedy were photographed milking cows in George’s cattle byre at Crossapol in the 1930s. The byre was white-washed every year and housed up to ten cows which were mainly Ayrshire and Shorthorns.
The cows were put out to graze in the summer and brought in twice a day to be milked. In winter they were kept inside. The family made butter which they sold as well as milk, and also made cheese for their private use.
Until thirty or so years ago crofters commonly kept a milking cow for their own use. Very few do so now, and with the changes in the law regarding ‘raw’ milk, all milk for sale is imported into the island.
Black and white photograph of George Paterson`s cattle byre at Crossapol in the 1930s.
George Paterson and Archie Kennedy milking cows in George`s cattle byre at Crossapol in the 1930s.