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.
Colour photograph of Nick Turnbull in his Tiree-built boat ‘Tiree Maid’ fishing for lobsters off Mull in around 1973.
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.
Colour postcard photograph of four dipping lug-sail boats racing off Scarinish during a Tiree Regatta in around 1990.
Colour postcard photograph of spectators watching a swimming race in Scarinish Harbour during a Tiree Regatta in around 1990.
Page from an unknown publication with a photograph titled ‘Major LA Clowes, Tenant of the Duke of Argyll’s shoot on the Isle of Tiree’, 1946. Major Legh Algernon Clowes (1901-1987) of Norbury Hall, near Ashbourne in Derbyshire, served in the 1st Derbyshire Yeomanary in 1933 and was the High Sheriff of Derbyshire.
Invitation and ticket for the 87th Annual Gathering of the Tiree Association in City Hall, Glasgow, in 1987.
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Envelope and certificate of posting, stamped and issued at Cornaigmore Post Office in 1981.
