Black & white photograph of a ‘spotty’ house and barn at Gott/lower Vaul in 1933.
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Black & white photograph of Highland cows and horses in front of a black-roof house in 1933.
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Black & white photograph of competitors and spectators at a Sports Day on The Reef in 1933. The two competitors are astride a raised beam, hitting one another with filled sacks.
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Black & white photograph of a black-roof house by the sandy track to Upper Vaul, 1933. Only the remains of the house are now visible.
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Black & white postcard photograph of the ferry ‘Lochearn’ nearing Tiree.
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Large framed print of a newspaper photograph of ‘The Firhill Flyer’ Johnny MacKenzie (1925-2017), Caoles (on the left), playing football for Scotland against Hungary at Hampden Park in 1954. From ‘Harbour’, Caoles.
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Original copy of a children’s comic book featuring the story ‘Dandy, the Detective Dispatch Rider’ by Mrs Alexander Gross, and colour sketches of a German Zeppelin and British tri-planes during WWI. Published by Geographia, London in 1920. Also includes a poem ‘The Flowers Postman’ about bees, and sketches of children. The name John ? Lamont is signed in pen at the top of the cover. Found in ‘Harbour’, Caoles.
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Collection of six mail-order clothing catalogues, leaflets and order forms from the 1920s, including Dallas’s of Glasgow fashions, 1925; Miximus footwear, Northampton, and its envelope addressed to Mr H McKinnon, ‘Harbour’, Caoles; Maximum Shoe Company and Maximus Clothing; Dorothy Bags, Northampton, 1921; The Last footwear, Dundee, 1925; Greenlees & Sons ‘Easiephit’ Footwear, Glasgow, 1922. From ‘Harbour’, Caoles.
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60th anniversary souvenir edition of NHS Glasgow’s ‘Health News’ newspaper, July 2008, containing articles and photographs from the birth of the NHS in 1948 to 2008. Most folk on Tiree will have used Glasgow’s hospital facilities at some time over the decades, and many took up positions in nursing there. The paper provides an insight into health care at that time. From ‘Harbour’, Caoles.
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Black and white photograph of (L-R) siblings John, Alex, Mary and Donald MacKenzie, who lived at Harbour, Caoles, in around 1933. John (1925-2017) became a celebrated footballer known as ‘The Firhill Flyer’, playing for Partick Thistle and Scotland.
