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`.
2014.25.3
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Dates: 1960s
2014.23.1
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).
2014.21.1
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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2014.21.2
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.
2014.22.3
Photograph of Mary MacDonald, traveller, around 2003
Colour photograph of Mary MacDonald who was a traveller. She came regularly to Tiree as a young woman with her mother `Cleamag`. Original stored in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1.
2014.18.1
Cover pages of booklets issued to bank staff on Tiree in the 1960s and 1970s
Photocopies of the cover pages of four booklets issued to staff of the Tiree branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland (formerly the National and Commercial Bank of Scotland): (1) `Careers for Girls` and `Your Bank Account` by RBS, and (2) `On the Cash – a practical guide for tellers` and `Organising the Work of a Branch ` an introduction` by NC.
2014.18.2
Photograph of the Royal Bank of Scotland staff college in Edinburgh around 1970
Colour photocopy of a postcard showing the RBS staff training college in esdaile, Edinburgh, around 1970. This is where Tiree`s RBS staff were sent.
2014.7.15
Photograph of the well outside Croft View, Balephuil, around 1950.
Black & white photograph of the hand-pumped well outside Croft View, Balephuil, around 1950. From a collection of photographs from the house of Ellen Kennedy (nee Eilidh MacNeil), Balevullin.
2014.7.16
Photograph of Hugh MacNeil (?) working outside Croft View, Balephuil, around 1950.
Black & white photograph of a man (possibly Hugh MacNeill) chopping up a wooden crate outside his house – Croft View – at Balephuil around 1950. From a collection of photographs from the house of Ellen Kennedy (nee Eilidh MacNeil), Balevullin.
2014.7.17
Photograph of a work horse and foal around 1950
Black & white photograph of a dark-coloured mare and her white foal around 1950. Possibly belonging to the MacNeil / Kennedy family of Balevullin/Balephuil. From a collection of photographs from the house of Ellen Kennedy (nee Eilidh MacNeil), Balevullin.
