Softback book ‘Remote, Small but Essential’ by D J F Haselsteiner, 2021. A guide to 100 regional airports in Europe, including Tiree and Coll.
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Dates: 1970s
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Short, tubular, brass spacer found on the shore at Sandaig in 2021, and presumed to be from the destroyer HMS Sturdy which was wrecked there in 1940.
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Colour postard of a crofthouse on the shore at Urvaig, Caoles in around 1970.
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Colour postcard from around 1980, of a thatched house with a well and pump in the foreground.
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Poem by Flora MacPhail, Ruaig, about a Harris Tweed jacket made by Dugald MacArthur, Sliabh, Balephuil in around 1940. In Gaelic with an English translation. It was worn by Jamie MacDonald, Ruaig, on TV for the Scots Trad Music Awards in 2018.
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Colour photograph of Nick Turnbull fishing with lobster creels off Mull in around 1973, in a boat made by the father of Duncan Cameron, Scarinish.
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Colour photograph of Nick Turnbull in his Tiree-built boat ‘Tiree Maid’ fishing for lobsters off Mull in around 1973.
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Colour photograph of the boat ‘Tiree Maid’ built by the father of Duncan Cameron, Scarinish, for Nick Turnbull for fishing lobsters from Croig, Mull in 1973.
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Copy of the Swiss magazine Passé Simple containing an article (in French) about RAF airman Léonard Revilliod, one of the 16 flight crew who lost their lives in a mid-air collision over Island House in 1944. Léonard was the grandson of the first President of Czechoslovakia, and served with 518 Squadron based on Tiree. Written by Denis Dumoulin in 2020.
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Colour photo postcard of two children at Dùn Mòr Bhalla / Vaul broch in around 1980.
