Information about three Australian RAAF servicemen serving on Tiree during WWII
Information about three Australian RAAF servicemen who died in 1944, along with 13 others, when the Halifax aircraft they were flying in collided with another during training over Tiree: William Arthur Graham, Thomas Stephens and John Alexander Peterson.
Lead and acid accumulator `battery` used in the 1940s
Lead-acid 2V accumulator made by the Chloride Electrical Storage Company around 1940-1950. Two lead plates submerged in sulphuric acid (no longer present) within a glass box with carrying handle. The accumulator would be charged every week and used for powering radio sets (heated the valves).
Book `The Concise Home Doctor`, 1932
Large hardback encyclopedia of health advice, ailments, preventatives and treatments for the family.
Portable gramophone from around 1930
`Alba` portable gramophone record player, model 505, in a brown leather-clad wooden box with hinged lid and leather carrying handle. Includes spare needle and a gramophone record of `Royal Belfast Hornpipe`.
Book `The Yellow on the Broom`, 1979
Softback book by Betsy Whyte relating the memoirs of a young traveller woman in Perthshire, as well as telling of the lore and customs of Travelling people.
Book ` The Summer Walkers`, 1996
Softback book about the origins of Scotland`s travelling people, their stories, poetry, songs, customs, superstitions and secret `cover tongue`.
Postcard to Bob Petrie, Scarinish Hotel, 1975
Handwritten letter on a blank postcard to Bob Petrie, owner of the Scarinish Hotel, on 15th Jan. 1975, from Duncan M Mellis, regarding an enclosed old postcard of a line drawing of the hotel around 1906 (photo K2).
Hand drill from the 1930s
Iron and wooden hand-turned drill used during the 1930s.
The circumstances of the grounding of the Oceana at Baugh in 1949, by owner John Campbell
Transcript of a telephone conversation between John Campbell and Dr John Holliday in October 2013, regarding John Campbell`s life and ownership of the schooner `Oceana` and the circumstances leading up to its grounding and eventual break up on the beach at Baugh / Crossapol in 1949.
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Extracts from the autobiography of John Campbell – owner of the Oceana
Printed extracts from the autobiography of John Campbell, owner of the schooner `Oceana` that grounded on Crossapol beach in 1949, including a photograph of the yacht in full sail.
