A Lucas battery filler. A distilled water bottle for topping up accumulator batteries.
Early household radio sets were powered by glass accumulator batteries. See 2014.31.1 These batteries were regularly taken to be charged at local shops, such as Calum “Calum Salum” MacLean’s shop in Salum, where they would be topped up with distilled water.
From a collection of two signed RAF Mess Christmas Dinner menus
Menu – 5751 M & G Construction Flight, RAF Hong Kong. Victory Christmas, 25th December 1945. Signed on the reverse, including, ” SGT MARSHALL (owner of Kilkenneth Naafi)”
From a collection of two signed RAF Mess Christmas Dinner menus
Menu – Christmas 1943 Dinner. RAF Station, Ben Hough, Isle of Tiree. Signed on the reverse.
A wartime photograph of unknown provenance. Thought to have Tiree connections.
206 Officer Training Unit May-July 1944
Original is autographed on the reverse.
A collection of concert programmes for The Tiree Association Annual Gathering
1926 1935 1937 1950 1959 1960 1961 1962 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987
From a collection of items belonging to F/Eng John Young, 518 Sqn Tiree
Air Council original book,
Pilot’s and Flight Engineer’s Notes, Halifax II & V, Four Merlin XX or 22 Engines. A.P. 1719B & E-P.N. 2nd Edition. Air Ministry 1944
belonging to F/Eng John Young See 2025.33
Photograph of (LHS) Janet MacKinnon nee Campbell (1861-1949), Brandon Cottage, Heanish,
Brandon Cottage was rebuilt and is now No. 7 Heanish.
Janet married Hector MacKinnon of Tiree in Glasgow, 1943 and later spent time in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada where her brother lived.
(RHS) Catherine Park nee Anderson (1887-1967) eldest daughter of Peter Anderson (1849-1935) and Catherine Campbell (1849-1912) daughter of Murdoch Campbell. They lived in the gamekeeper’s cottage, Scarinish. Catherine was Janet’s niece.
Photograph of Janet MacKinnon nee Campbell (1861-1949), Brandon Cottage, Heanish, taken in 1949.
Brandon Cottage was rebuilt and is now No. 7 Heanish.
Janet married Hector MacKinnon of Tiree in Glasgow, 1943 and later spent time in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada where her brother lived.
A large wooden carpenters’ spirit level belonging to Hugh MacDonald, The Eyrie, Kenovay, carpenter and coffin-maker
Joiner, undertaker, coffin-maker and builder, Hugh MacDonald spent some time in Patagonia, South America. He was also a piper and composed music for pipes which won several gold medals. He spoke several langauges including Gaelic, Spanish, Irish Gaelic and some Polish.
A German map of Tiree and Mull. 1942
Karte von Schottland. Blatt 17. Tobermory
