Black & white postcard photograph of cattle standing in Loch a’ Phuil in around the 1920s. Houses and barns of ‘The Land’, Barrapol, are visible in the background.
2022.16.7
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2022.16.6
Black & white postcard produced by MacNeill, Post Office, Balemartine in around 1910, showing a photograph of a woman and a girl outside a black-roofed house at “Machrie, Balinoe”. Date-stamped 1919.
2022.16.5
Colour postcard of a full flit-boat leaving Scarinish harbour to join the ferry, which would have been at anchor off-shore pre-1915. The image appears to have been created from a hand-coloured glass plate photograph. Date-stamped Aug 1919.
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.
2022.15.3
Colour postcard image of a sand art mandala created on Crossapol beach by Andrew Bowman in around 2020.
2022.15.2
Commemorative colour photo postcard of the ferry ‘Lord of the Isles’ on its last call at Tobermory in 1998. The ‘Lord of the Isles was the last ferry link between Tobermory and Coll & Tiree. The reverse is signed by the captain, K. Cameron, and date-stamped at the Tobermory post office at 10.45 on 5 April 1998.
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.
2022.14.1
Black and white photo postcard of Scarinish Harbour, date stamped 1907.
2022.13.3
Black and white photograph of a Halifax III aircraft flying overhead. Halifaxes were flown by 518 Squadron Meteorological Observers based at RAF Tiree during WWII.
