Twelve colour photographs of the construction of the roll-on roll-off ferry terminus at Gott Bay pier in 1992.
The construction of the roll-on roll-off ferry terminus at Gott Bay pier in 1992. Six photographs are on display W20-W26.
Colour photograph of the construction of the roll-on roll-off ferry terminus at Gott Bay pier in 1992.
The construction of the roll-on roll-off ferry terminus at Gott Bay pier in 1992.
Colour photograph of the construction of the roll-on roll-off ferry terminus at Gott Bay pier in 1992.
The construction of the roll-on roll-off ferry terminus at Gott Bay pier in 1992.
Black and white photograph of the wedding of George Griffins and Mairi MacPhail.
The wedding of George Griffins and Mairi MacPhail, daughter of Registrar Neil MacPhail. The piper is Hugh MacLean of Barrapol.
Black and white photograph of Robert Bruce Webster 1892-1959.
Robert Bruce Webster (1892-1959), a Scottish watercolourist whose principal productive period lay between the early 1920s and the 1950s. For examples of his work in Tiree, see photographs E85-E91.
Dr Dan MacKinnon of Ruaig
Photograph of Dr Dan MacKinnon of Ruaig in Balemartine during World War I.
Courtesy of Mr Donald MacKinnon
Dr Dan MacKinnon (Dòmhnaill Eòghainn na Sraide) is pictured on his motorbike in Balemartine during World War I. Born at Tor a’ Bhaile in Ruaig in 1890, he was educated locally and in 1913 qualified as a doctor in Glasgow.
After working briefly at the Grampian Sanatorium in Kingussie, he returned to Tiree in 1914 as the island’s doctor. He once had a spill from his motorbike in Heanish. Although unhurt and able to continue on his rounds, the racing engine and spinning wheels caused some consternation to those who came to his aid.
He enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1917 and went off to the war, returning to Tiree in June 1919 but resigning the following year to take up the post of Parochial Medical Officer in Aberfoyle. He died unmarried in 1938 and is buried in Kirkapol cemetery.
Black and white photograph of Dr Dan MacKinnon of Ruaig in the 1910s.
Dr Dan MacKinnon of Ruaig on his motorbike in Balemartine in the 1910s. Houses (L-R): Lachlan MacNeill (former Post Office); Flora Lamont, John Paterson (thatched houses); MacArthurs’ houses. Dr Dan was born at Tor a’ Bhaile in Ruaig in 1890, came back to Tiree in 1914 as its doctor and enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1917.
Black and white photograph of Heylipol School 1927-8.
Heylipol School 1927-8. L-R: (front row) Lachie MacDonald, Sandaig; John MacPhail, Balephuil; Neil MacNeill, Barrapol; Alasdair Sinclair, Greenhill; Donald Campbell, Moss; Donald Kennedy, Balephuil; James Campbell, Heylipol; Hugh MacKinnon, Hough; Donald Archie MacDonald, Kilkenneth; Joan Kennedy, Kilkenneth; Lachie MacFarlane, Barrapol; Annie Brown, Crossapol; James MacKinnon, Moss; Effie Kennedy, Moss; Janet Campbell, Moss; (2nd front row) Annie MacDonald, Moss; Peggy MacNeill, Barrapol; Margaret Ann Campbell, Moss; Katy Ann Campbell, Heylipol; Flora Ann MacLean, Hough; Flora MacArthur, Sandaig; Annie MacKinnon, Hough; Annie Kennedy, Moss; Peggy MacLean, Hough; Fiona MacDonald, Kilkenneth; Marion MacLean, Hough; Annie Cameron, Moss; Willie MacLean, Barrapol; (2nd back row) Miss MacIvor, Primary Teacher; Neil MacDonald, Sandaig; Hannah MacNeill, Barrapol; Dolina MacLean, Hough; Mary Campbell, Heylipol; Annie Campbell, Moss; H. I. MacDonald, Kilkenneth; Elsie MacLean, Barrapol; Malcolm MacDonald, Barrapol; (back row) Duncan MacPhail, Balephuil; Willie MacNeill, Barrapol; Colin MacIntyre, Kilkenneth; Alasdair MacKinnon, Kilkenneth (Sandaig); Hugh MacLean, Barrapol; Hugh J MacDonald, Kilkenneth; Mr MacArthur, Headteacher.
Black and white postcard of Cornaig mill.
The old mill at Cornaig, probably taken in the 1920s.
The seaweed factory at Middleton
Photograph of the remains of the seaweed factory at Middleton.
Courtesy of Mr Donald MacKinnon
The kelp forests around Tiree are the fourth largest in Scottish waters. This abundance fuelled the seaweed industry on the island which, for a hundred years, produced alkali for soap and glass manufacture, and for bleaching linen.
Undercut by cheap foreign imports, the industry slumped from the 1830s until the 1860s when the North British Chemical Company appointed as manager a brilliant young chemist, Edward Curtis-Stanford. He arrived in Tiree in 1864 to supervise the building of the factory at Middleton, known locally as the Glassary.
Until 1901 the factory extracted iodine and alginates from the tangles, selling the residual charcoal as fertilizer and deodorants for earth closets, and using the gas produced by the process to light the buildings. Most of the factory was demolished in 1941 to provide the foundations of the runways built at the Reef for the RAF station.
Black and white photograph of the old seaweed factory at Middleton.
The old seaweed factory at Middleton in the early 20th century.
Black and white photograph of sheep-shearers at Kilmoluaig around 1960.
Sheep-shearing at Kilmoluaig around 1960. L-R: Lachie MacLean, Kilmoluaig; (back) Murdoch Cameron, Balevullin; Maggie Campbell nee MacKechnie, Kilmoluaig; Murdoch MacLean, Kilmoluaig; Alick MacKechnie, Blackcroft, Kilmoluaig.
