Home-made metal tool to connect metal brake lines, made by Donald Brown, Vaul.
2018.77.4
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Dates: 1980s
2018.77.3
Home-made metal tool to clean carbon from engine intake and exhaust valves, made by Donald Brown, Vaul.
2018.73.4
Colour photograph of Mr Baxter Nisbet talking with Aad van Ruiten in Lochgilphead in May 2018. Aad was a Dutch bulb-grower and Mr Nisbet played a role in the Tiree bulb industry in the 1960s.
2018.61.3
Audio cassette recording of a BBC Scotland radio interview, 1988, with Dr John Holliday on being a doctor on Tiree and with Aborigines in Australia.
2018.61.1
Printed eulogy read out at the funeral of Angus Munn, Heanish (1927-2015), written by his daughter.
2018.57.1
Scanned copy of a newspaper eulogy of Dr Catherine Brown (1900 – c.1985) titled ‘The doctor whose name lives on in Agyll school annals’ from (presumably) the Oban Times. Although Catherine was born in Bunessan, Mull, her Baptist minister father Alexander Brown, was originally from Mannal, Tiree, and she was “as much at home too in the Isle of Tiree”.
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2018.54.27
Black & white photograph of the Tiree District Nursing team at the bridge at Cornaig Mill in around 1990. L-R: Ann MacKinnon, Storm Byfield, Flora MacKinnon, Jane Williams. Crouched: Mairi MacLean, Cairin MacLeod.
2018.54.4
Collection of 36 original colour photographs, including the Reading Room and first exhibitions, Whitehouse Cattle Show, houses Taigh a’ Bhochdainn and Lag nan Cruach before renovation, ploughing demonstration, Tiree district nurses, Tiree football team ca. 1999. Most are catalogued separately (see 2018.54.5 – 27).
2018.54.3
Photocopy of a tri-fold brochure from an exhibition by the Oban Art Society of works by Duncan MacGregor Whyte (1866-1953) and his wife, Mary Bernard (1870-1946), in St. Columba’s Church, Oban in September 1984. Includes biographies and lists of named works. The MacG Whytes built The Studio in Balephuil.
2018.53.1
Three paper tri-fold leaflets promoting The Glassary restaurant and guesthouse, Sandaig, when it was owned by Mabel and Donald MacArthur. Printed around 1985.