Spares for a Tilley lamp
A packet of three prickers by Belgrave Prickers. “Quick and effective for cleaning all stoves and blowlamps. British Made”
A spare mantle
2026.8.1
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Object Type: artefact
2026.7.1
A pottery sherd
A sherd of Iron Age pottery found in an eroded bank at Brock.
2026.6.2
A masthead navigation light, from Donald Brown, Vaul
2026.5.1
A magic lantern with 14 glass slides
A magic lantern – an early type of image projector
With 14 glass slides, including pictures, bible texts and hymns
These were widely used until the 1950s when superseded by 35mm slide projectors
A lantern (possibly this one) was used at the Baptist Sunday-schools and Temperance meetings in Tiree.
2026.4.4
From a collection of items from a byre in Brock
Head of five-tine Wolf Garten cultivator, post-1922.
2026.4.3
From a collection of items from a byre in Brock
Cast iron kettle holding 5½ pints from John Law Foundry, Glasgow, 1852–1910
2026.4.2
From a collection of items from a byre in Brock
Pipsqueak mini-stove with an integrated hearth made by Anglo-American Stove Company. Date 1870s–1900s. Designed for boats, caravans, railway carriages
This was probably used in a boat
2026.4.1
From a collection of items from a byre in Brock
A 6ft (180cm) pit saw blade
Pit saws were used to cut planks from tree trunks, for house and boat building. The “pit” in Brock would have been a hollow in the sand dunes. The log was placed horizontally across the pit or frame and the saw was usually operated by two men: a top-man above and a pit-man guiding the saw from below. This may have been a one-man saw
With the absence of local sawmills the use of pit saws would have continued long into the 1800s and possibly even the 1900s
2025.54.2
From a collection of two signed RAF Mess Christmas Dinner menus
Menu – 5751 M & G Construction Flight, RAF Hong Kong. Victory Christmas, 25th December 1945. Signed on the reverse, including, ” SGT MARSHALL (owner of Kilkenneth Naafi)”
2025.54.1
From a collection of two signed RAF Mess Christmas Dinner menus
Menu – Christmas 1943 Dinner. RAF Station, Ben Hough, Isle of Tiree. Signed on the reverse.
