Black and white photograph of L-R: Kate MacDonald at her house in Balephuil, with Mrs Irving a regular holidaymaker and Mina Lindsay who was a foster-child of Mrs MacDonald.
2024.19.1
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Dates: 1960s
2024.6.2
Photograph of Chrissie Murray 1924-2023, from Point, Lewis who came to work at Tiree NAAFI
2023.15.4
Beautiful colour print, original photograph possibly taken on 16mm film, of the tulip fields at Hynish. It is given an order number of ‘SA. 9767’ and dated May 1958.
2023.15.3
Box of 28 Kodak colour slides containing images of the Hynish bulb fields.
2023.15.2
Postcard sent from the Isle of Tiree to a Miss E. Nisbit, of Giffnock, Renfrewshire, ca 1950. The image is an ariel photograph of Scarinish and is in sepia. The handwriting is faded, so the name of the sender is unclear, but the surname appears to be McColl. The content is also difficult to read, but there is talk of the weather, typically, sunshine and gales. The photographic image was taken by Wm. Thomson of Fort William. Two 1D postage stamps feature King George VI, dating the postcard to his reign (1936-1952).
2023.11.1
Detailed set of instructions for making a ship in a bottle. Written in ink on various scraps of paper with accompanying diagrams. Can perhaps be dated to c1959 as one of the scraps has been taken from a calendar of this year. Other scraps are from headed paper with The Scottish Tube Co. Ltd. printed at the top. The donation came from a house in Balevullin.
2023.6.2
Large colour print of footballer ‘The Firhill Flyer’ Johnny MacKenzie (1925-2017), Caoles.
2022.29.7
Book ‘The Hebrides at War’ by Mike Hughes, 1998. An illustrated account of the men and women who served and lived in Oban and the Hebrides during World War II. From the belongings of the MacDonald/MacCorquodale/MacLean family of Kenovay.
2022.27.1
Collection of articles, poems, photographs and illustrations by Alistair MacNeill of Hynish (b. 1940). Alistair recollects his experiences competing in the County Sports, Skerryvore Lighthouse, the Great China Tea Race of 1866, rock fishing with a bamboo rod, ‘The Wembly Wizards’ Scottish football team of 1928, gathering tangles (seaweed) for the kelp industry, Ben Nevis, a puffer coal boat at Hynish pier. Includes two covering letters with further information.
2022.19.1
Two colour photographs of the front and back of a crude wooden cross, hand-carved from a driftwood branch, probably pine. The back has been fashioned to hang flat on a wall. Found in the dunes at Salum Bay in 1998, it hung in ‘The Wee Church’ at Ruaig.
As there are no pine trees on Tiree, it is likely to have drifted there from Coll or Mull.