Photograph of a thatched cottage
Black & white photograph of a thatched cottage
2010.28.3
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Dates: 1940s
2010.28.1
Aerial photograph of Scarinish ca 1940
Black & white aerial photograph of Scarinish ca 1940. Shows various houses and from bottom to top: white-roofed house owned by Amelia Cameron then her daughter Biddy until the early 1970s, Scarinish School, the Reading Room (now An Iodhlann), the Cooperative store, harbour, Scarinish Hotel, wreck of Mary Stewart.
2010.24.2
Photograph of Mrs ? MacLean in front of Hynish House circa 1950
Sepia photograph of Mrs ? MacLean standing next to a horned black & white cow outside Hynish House during the 1940s or 1950s. (Original stored in filing cabinet 9 drawer 3)
2010.25.3
Photograph of early tractors arriving on the ferry circa 1950.
Black & white photograph of four early Massey-Ferguson tractors arriving at Tiree on the ferry in about 1950.
2010.18.2
Six letters to Elsie MacKinnon, Kirkapol, from servicmen who had been billeted at Lodge Farm during WWII
Five handwritten letters and one typed letter to Elsie MacKinnon, Lodge Farm, Kirkapol, from servicemen who were billeted at the farm during the 2nd world war. Known dates range from 1943 to 1954. One includes a newspaper cutting about the correspondent`s dive in Lough Neagh, Ireland, another is a christmas card from and featuring a photo of the `MV Kaituna`. Another three are from RAF men.
2010.17.1
Book “The Voyages of the Discovery”
Softback book about the history of Scott of the Antartic`s ship the “Discovery”. Tiree man Kenneth MacKenzie was appointed Chief Officer/First Mate of the Discovery for the first British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) in 1929. In 1930, he was promoted to Captain for the second BANZARE expedition. Text and photographs of Captain MacKenzie on pages 130, 134, 142.
2010.16.1
CD “Home to Argyll with Ethel MacCallum”
CD of songs, music, singing and spoken words by Ethel MacCallum who was evacuated to Tiree as a child during the 2nd World War. Includes a song entitled “Goirtean Dòmhnaill (Barapol)”, and works by Niall Brownlie and Cathy Thomson amongst others.
2010.16.6
Archive film from 1944 about `The Isles of Youth`
DVD film from the Scottish Screen Archive about `The Isles of Youth`. Filmed in 1944, colour, silent. David MacBrayne`s silent film of various island scenery in the western isles, interspersed with poetic texts. Subjects include ferries, buses, Oban, Stornoway, Harris and Harris tweed, Rodeland & St.Clements Church, Uist, Barra, Tiree including the ship “Mary Stewart” abandoned in Scarinish Harbour but still intact, Lunga, Iona, Staffa, Mull, Highland Games.
2010.13.1
Death certificate of Leonard Revilliod, RAF Tiree, 1944
Copy of death certificate of Flying Officer Leonard Revilliod (grandson of the first President of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk), who served with the RAF on Tiree during WWII. He was one of 16 airmen who died during a mid-air collision between two Halifax aircraft during a training flight over Tiree. (On the death certificate his name is mis-spelt as Revilloid)
2010.12.5
Photograph of the owners of the schooner `Oceana`
Black & white photograph of Clinton George Vaughan (1877-1961) and his wife Susannah aboard the two-masted schooner `Oceana` in the 1930s. The Oceana ran aground and broke up at Crossapol in 1949.
