Black and white photograph of a Squadron 518 Halifax at RAF Tiree during WWII.
Squadron 518 Halifax at RAF Tiree during WWII.
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Black and white photograph of Mary Morrison at her spinning wheel.
Mary Morrison, great-grandmother of Lachie MacDonald, Middleton, at her spinning wheel at the Land in Barrapol, taken when she was aged 55-60.
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Black and white photograph of RAF Tiree during WWII.
`Steve running up on scramble strike for a Mosquito which was escorted to Prestwick.`
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Black and white postcard of Scarinish harbour.
View of Scarinish harbour from the east with the hotel in the background.
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Black and white photograph of a Halifax at RAF Tiree during WWII.
A Halifax which ran into a ditch after overshooting the airfield and ended up nose down.
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Black and white postcard of a cottar`s cottage in Scarinish.
Cottar`s cottage in Scarinish.
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Black and white photograph of RAF Tiree personnel during WWII.
RAF Tiree personnel during WWII. `Billy Balcombe giving Mac some help writing to his wife.`
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Black and white photograph of John MacIntyre of Moss in the 1920s.
John MacIntyre (Iain Chailein) of Moss with a Clydesdale horse in the 1920s.
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Black and white photograph of wireless operator Billy MacAuley at RAF Tiree during WWII.
Billy MacAuley, a Squadron 281 wireless operator with 1155 receiver in a Warwick at RAF Tiree in 1944.
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Postcard of a thatched house in Moss that was the site of a famous shebeen.
In the Statistical Account of 1845, the Rev. Neil MacLean wrote: ‘There are two licensed inns in Tiree, but it is to be observed that several low illicit tippling houses…have been springing up of late in this island.’
A few years later, the Duke removed the licence from Tiree, after a woman died on her way home after drinking at the inn at Croish in Kilmoluaig. While alcohol could not then be sold legally, there were a number of houses, or shebeens, where whisky could be bought if you were known to be trustworthy.
The most famous of these was run by Màiri Ann an Righ in Moss. She was undisturbed by the Argyll Constabulary, partly because she was very careful to whom she gave a bottle.