Colour photograph of visiting runners on the Tiree 10K run in 2006, taken by Dr John Holliday.
Visiting runners on the Tiree 10K run in 2006 approaching the finish at An Talla, photographed by Dr John Holliday.
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2006.93.10
Squadron Leader Preston-Potts and his wife
Photograph of Squadron Leader Preston-Potts and his wife.
Courtesy of Ms Annabelle MacNeill
The Station Commander of the RAF base on Tiree between 1943 and 1945 was Squadron Leader Preston-Potts. A fighter pilot who had been injured in the Battle of Britain, he was left with a burned face and had to travel regularly to the mainland for treatment.
He was quite fearless and won a pilots’ bet as to who could fly lowest over the Officers’ Mess; he flew so low he cut the telegraph wires with the wheels of his plane. Once he swam out to defuse a mine bobbing offshore.
A great lover of speed, he would career along the narrow Tiree roads in an open-top jeep offering lifts to locals, who were left shaking in their shoes at the end of the journey.
Black and white photograph of Preston Potts and his wife, from Annabella MacNeill`s collection.
The Commanding Officer of RAF Tiree Preston Potts and his wife sitting on a jeep. (Original stored in filing cabinet 8 drawer 4)
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Black and white photograph of Alasdair MacFadyen, from Annabella MacNeill`s collection.
L-R: unknown; Alasdair MacFadyen (husband of Nonnie Campbell and brother of Annabella MacNeill) with a Clydesdale horse at the Salem Show in Mull in the 1950s. (Original stored in filing cabinet 8 drawer 4)
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Black and white photograph of airman Bill Store (?), from Annabella MacNeill`s collection.
Airman Bill Store (Stone?) outside a Nissen hut in Tiree during WWII. He was lost during the war. (Original stored in filing cabinet 8 drawer 4)
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Black and white photograph of Preston Potts, his wife and an unknown couple, from Annabella MacNeill`s collection.
The Commanding Officer of RAF Tiree Preston Potts (on the far right) and his wife (on the far left) with an unknown couple and a jeep. (Original stored in filing cabinet 8 drawer 4)
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Black and white photograph of Alix MacArthur, Ina MacFarlane, Phem and Bobby Tester, from Annabella MacNeill`s collection.
Alix MacArthur of Middleton, Ina MacFarlane, Phem (surname unknown) and Bobby Tester as a child. (Original stored in filing cabinet 8 drawer 4)
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Black and white photograph of an unknown girl, from Annabella MacNeill`s collection.
Unknown girl, from Annabella MacNeill`s collection. (Original stored in filing cabinet 8 drawer 4)
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Black and white photograph of the tailor at the Land, from Annabella MacNeill`s collection.
The tailor (MacNeill) at the Land in Barrapol. (Original stored in filing cabinet 8 drawer 4)
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Colour photograph of a meeting in the old sale ring at Crosapol, from Annabella MacNeill`s collection.
Lamb sale at the old sale ring at the Crossapol mart about 1986. (Original stored in filing cabinet 8 drawer 4)
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Black and white photograph of a meeting in the Mission House in Balephuil, from Annabella MacNeill`s collection.
Meeting in the Mission House in Balephuil in the 1950s. (Original stored in filing cabinet 8 drawer 4)
