A Lucas battery filler. A distilled water bottle for topping up accumulator batteries.
Early household radio sets were powered by glass accumulator batteries. See 2014.31.1 These batteries were regularly taken to be charged at local shops, such as Calum “Calum Salum” MacLean’s shop in Salum, where they would be topped up with distilled water.
From a collection of photographs and items from Lodge Farm, Kirkapol.
A horse buckle from Lodge Farm
From a collection of photographs and items from Lodge Farm, Kirkapol.
A picnic on the beach
“A picnic on the beach with the Becks. Robin and I are sitting on the car. My parents arrived in Tiree in the same week as the Becks and met in the Scarinish Hotel while we were all waiting for our furniture containers to arrive on the cargo boat.” by the donor of this photograph and others in this collection at 2025.53 Isabel Beaton.
From a collection of eight photographs 2025.53
From a selection of five vinyl records in Gaelic from the house of Kenneth Muir, Heanish
A 78rpm record by Parlophone:
Bhirlinn Bharrach (Kishmul’s Galley) by Kennedy Fraser and Kenneth MacLeod
and
C’ait an Caidil an Ribhinn (Where Sleeps the Maid) traditional
Kenneth MacRae with Piano Accompaniment (sung in Gaelic) E3902
A collection of papers from the Campbell family of Kenovay / Cornaigbeg
4. Nine letters between Hector Campbell and Argyll County Council regarding Cornaigbeg croft road 1972- 1974
A photograph from a set of copies of a magazine article about Tiree thatched cottages, with photographs mainly by Jim Souness.
A photograph from a set of copies of a magazine article about Tiree thatched cottages, with photographs mainly by Jim Souness.
A photograph from a set of copies of a magazine article about Tiree thatched cottages, with photographs mainly by Jim Souness.
A photograph from a set of copies of a magazine article about Tiree thatched cottages, with photographs mainly by Jim Souness.
