Photograph of Chrissie Murray 1924-2023, from Point, Lewis who came to work at Tiree NAAFI
2024.6.2
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Dates: 1980s
2023.9.1
Audio cassette recording of Hector Campbell, from Barrapol (Anne Brown’s brother), reciting poetry in around 1980. Inside the cassette case is a type-written copy of Walter de la Mare’s ‘Autumn‘.
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.
2022.16.8
Colour photograph of a traditional boat ‘Isabella’ on Gott Bay in around 1990.
2022.16.4
Colour photograph of passengers disembarking from the Twin Otter air service at the old terminal of Tiree airport in 1986.
2022.16.3
Large black & white photograph of windsurfer Keith Dobney and others on a beach during the Tiree Wave Classic windsurfing championship in October 1989.
2022.15.4
Two colour photographic slides showing the red Postbus at the old terminal of Tiree airport in 1986.
2022.15.1
Colour photograph of merchant vessel ‘Isle of Tiree’ at Lyness pier, Hoy, Orkney Islands, in 2007. Originally built for fishing in 1960, this 131-ton wooden boat was bought by Highland Marine Ltd for general cargo and supplying fish farms. It sank at Lyness pier after being sold in Orkney.
