Pre-flight checklist on hard board for Halifax aircraft during WWII. Halifaxes were flown by 518 Squadron Meteorological Observers stationed at RAF Tiree. On loan for displaying at Tiree Airport.
2022.13.2
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2022.13.1
Metal drift calculator (isothermal calibration) used by an RAF navigator during WWII. Strapped to the upper thigh along with a roll of note paper, it was used for correcting the aircraft’s height and air speed according to air temperature. Found on moorland just north of Island House, it is thought to have fallen from one of the two aircraft that collided nearby in August 1944. On loan for displaying at Tiree Airport.
2022.12.2
Boatbuilders’ wooden clamp belonging to Donald MacIntyre, Gott (1925-2020). Donald used the clamp when building his boat, the ‘Isabella’. After the planks had been steamed, they were tightened by hitting a wooden wedge in at the top of the clamp.
2022.12.1
Postcard showing four colour photographs of traditional Tiree houses. Produced by Sue Anderson in around 1996.
2022.8.2
Sea-worn piece of driftwood carpentry, probably the Mortise remnant of a Mortise-and-Tenon joint, washed up on the shore at Balemartine in 2022.
2022.8.1
Postcard showing a colour aerial photograph of the shore and machair to the south and west of Beinn Hough in 1981, including Greenhill and The Maze.
2022.7.3
Colour photograph of a Nissen hut at the entrance to The Camp at Crossapol, in around 2000. Only the foundations of the Nissen hut remain. The Camp was the main site of RAF Tiree’s operations during WWII.
2022.7.2
Black & white photographic postcard of passengers aboard the ferry passing through the Sound of Mull on their way to/from Tiree in the 1920s.
2022.7.1
Black & white photographic postcard of the machair at Scarinish during the 1920s, including a thatched house and the back of MacArthur’s Store.
2022.6.3
Letter card written at Clachan Guest House at Baugh in the 1950s. Comprises a single long folded sheet containing six black & white photographs of Tiree.
