Black and white photograph of Archie MacEachern and Donald MacLean.
Archie (Leipan) MacEachern and Donald MacLean, Ard Beg, outside the smiddy at Creag Mhor, Cornaigbeg.
1997.172.5
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Dates: 1940s
2002.145.1
Crocheted doilly made by Isabella MacArthur.
Circular doilly 275 mm in diameter crocheted from white cotton with purple and gold lurex details, made by Isabella MacArthur (nighean a` mhinisdeir), Balephuil in the 1940s and given to Nan and David MacClounnan after their marriage in 1949.
1997.148.37
1943 ENSA concert party
Photograph of an ENSA concert party in 1943.
Courtesy of Mr Angus MacLean
ENSA, the Entertainments National Service Association, was set up in 1939 to provide entertainment for the British armed forces during World War II. Operating as a part of the Navy, Army and Air Force Institute (NAAFI), it was affectionately known as ‘Every Night Something Awful’.
This photograph is of a travelling concert party which performed in front of the RAF base personnel in October 1943. Concerts consisted of a couple of hours of singing, comedy and sketches, some good and some not so good.
Their spirit and dedication was admired and appreciated, even on return visits of the same concert party when the show had been seen before.
Black and white photograph of a wartime revue.
Wartime revue at RAF Tiree on 15/10/1943. (Original in Filing Cabinet 2 drawer 1: 1997.178)
1997.148.1
Black and white photograph of a group at RAF Tiree.
Unknown group of three and one woman at RAF Tiree.
1997.148.2
Postcard of MacDonald`s stores at Pier Road, Scarinish.
MacDonald`s Stores at Pier Road, Scarinish.
1997.148.4
Black and white postcard of Baugh Bay.
Photograph of Baugh Bay from the west showing the Baptist Church and Baugh Farmhouse.
1997.148.5
Black and white postcard of the Kirkapol Lodge, 1920s.
The Lodge at Kirkapol showing the original entrance in around the 1920s. The child in the photograph is probably Elizabeth Milne, the grandaughter of Lady Frances Balfour, the sister of the Duke of Argyll.
1997.148.17
Colour photgraph of Taigh na Suacain in Caoles, c. 1950.
Thatched house Taigh na Suacain in Caoles taken around 1950 with Ardnamurchan in background.
1997.148.20
Black and white photograph taken outside the Post Office sorting hut in 1943.
RAF group outside the Post office sorting hut, 1943. L-R: Sid Grimes, Corporal Atkins, unknown.
1997.148.21
Black and white postcard of Heanish hospital.
The fever hospital on Heanish machair. Built in 1905 of corrugated iron over a wooden frame, it contained a two-bedded ward at either end with a kitchen, nurse`s room and bathroom in the centre. It was first used within months of opening when two families went down with diphtheria. By 1927, Dr Hunter reported it was only occasionally used and it was let out to a family on the condition that they vacated it at once if needed for patients. The hospital was last used in the 1940s, then let to Council roadmen and finally sold as a private house in the 1960s.
