Black and white photograph of Duncan, Mary and Willie MacLean of Balevullin in the 1930s.
The Croft, Balevullin in the 1930s. L-R: Veterinary Duncan MacLean (1904-1958); possibly his mother; his sister Mary MacLean with a young goat; Willie MacLean of Balevullin.
Black and white photograph of Duncan MacLean and John MacArthur in the 1930 or 40s.
L-R: Veterinary Duncan MacLean (1904-1958) of Balevullin; hotel owner John MacArthur of Barrapol; unknown.
Black and white photograph of veterinary Duncan MacLean (1904-1958) of Balevullin.
Veterinary Duncan MacLean (1904-1958) of Balevullin.
Nurse Flora MacLean of Balevullin
Photograph of Nurse Flora MacLean of Balevullin.
Courtesy of Mrs Flora MacKinnon
Flora MacLean of Balevullin was a nurse in Glasgow at the beginning of the 20th century. While working with children in the city she contracted tuberculosis. Her career finished, she left the pollution of the city for the sunshine and fresh air of her native island.
At the back of her thatched house in Balevullin she set up a tent where she lived much of the year. Her house was one of the few on Tiree with a back door which faces west, the direction of the prevailing wind. Most Tiree houses, until recently, have been built ‘back to the wind, face to the sun’.
She died in 1918 and is buried at Soroby. Her niece, Flora MacKinnon, also lives in Balevullin and is one of the island’s district nurses.
Black and white photograph of nurse Flora MacLean of Balevullin.
Nurse Flora MacLean of Balevullin who died in the 1920s, an aunt of nurse Flora MacKinnon of Balevullin.
Black and white photograph of siblings Marion, Neil and Maggie MacLean of Balevullin in the 1910s.
L-R: Siblings Marion, Neil and Maggie MacLean of Balevullin in the 1910s. Marion died of flu in 1918, Duncan became Tiree`s first vet and Maggie became a teacher and married Ernest Richardson.
Maggie MacLean (1907 -1997)
Photograph of Maggie MacLean of Balevullin.
Courtesy of Mrs Flora MacKinnon
Maggie MacLean of Balevullin was the Dux of Oban High School in 1925 and later graduated as a teacher. She taught locally in Ruaig School and then moved to Glasgow where she married Ernest Richardson.
Black and white photograph of siblings Maggie MacLean of Balevullin in the 1910s.
Maggie MacLean (1907-1997) of Balevullin on the day she graduated as a teacher in the late 1920s. Maggie was Dux of Oban High School in 1925, taught in Ruaig School then moved to Glasgow and married Ernest Richardson.
Black and white photograph of teachers Dolly Cameron and Margaret Richardson.
L-R: Teachers Dolly Cameron of Sandaig and Margaret Richardson of Ruaig in the 1950s.
Black and white photograph of policemen Neil MacLean of Balevullin in the 1910s.
Policemen Neil MacLean (1893-1961) of Balevullin, father of nurse Flora MacKinnon, photographed in Glasgow probably in the 1920s.
Black and white photograph of vet Duncan MacLean of Balevullin with an unknown man.
Vet Duncan MacLean (1904-1958) of Balevullin on the left with an unknown man, possibly his father, taken in the 1920s or 30s.
Black and white group photograph, possibly taken at a Tiree Association event.
Possibly a Tiree Association event in the 1940s or 50s. L-R: (back row) Piper Hugh Kennedy, Kilmoluaig; Alasdair MacFarlane, artist who painted ‘Taeping’; blacksmith Archie MacEachern, Cornaigbeg; policemen Neil MacLean, the Croft, Balevullin; unknown; boat pilot Donald Archie MacFarlane; Hugh Cameron, ‘Lochiel’, Cornaigmore; (front row, middle) Dr John Cameron, ‘Lochiel’, Cornaigmore.
