Black and white photograph of Annie MacIntyre with her grand-daughter Babs in 1955.
Annie MacIntyre (Anna na Loidse) with her grand-daughter Babs in 1955. (Copy sent by donor in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer 2)
2003.143.1
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2003.143.2
Black and white group photograph with Rosie MacIntyre in 1955.
L-R: (front row) Rosie MacIntyre, her daughter Babs and visitor Betty Sharp in 1955. (Copy sent by donor in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer 2)
2003.141.5
Black and white photograph of two RAF men, Margaret Lamont and Flora MacInnes in 1968.
Ruaig in 1968. L-R: unknown RAF technician, Margaret Lamont (wife of Charlie Lamont, Ruaig), RAF Sergeant Clark, Floraidh MacInnes from Northern Ireland (Margaret`s sister), photographed before the handover of the airport to the CAA.
2003.141.6
Black and white photograph of two RAF men having their last breakfast on Tiree in Ruaig in 1968.
Ruaig in 1968. L-R: unknown RAF technician and RAF Sergeant Clark having their last breakfast at Ruaig before handing over the running of the airport to Derek Clark and Brian Jefferson of the CAA.
2003.141.7
Black and white photograph of Margaret Lamont, Floraidh MacInnes, two RAF men and six foster-children in Ruaig in 1968.
Ruaig in 1968. L-R: (back) Margaret Dunne, unknown RAF technician; Margaret Lamont, wife of Charlie Lamont and foster-mother of the six children in the photograph; RAF Sergeant Clark; Floraidh MacInnes, Margaret’s sister; (middle) Robert Leppard; (front) Steven Corbett; Samuel Dunne; Steven Leppard; James Dunne.
1997.247.1
The tea clippers ‘Taeping’ and ‘Ariel’
Print of the tea clippers ‘Taeping’ and ‘Ariel’ competing in the Great China Tea Clipper Race of 1866.
Courtesy of Mr Donald MacKinnon
In 1866 London tea importers paid a premium of 10 shillings a ton for the first China tea of the season to arrive in London. On 30th May sixteen clippers left Foochow, including the favourite, the ‘Ariel’, and the ‘Taeping’, captained by Donald MacKinnon of Heanish and carrying almost 500 tons of tea.
As the boats raced home, the lead passed from one ship to another. As they reached the Lizard, the ‘Ariel’ and ‘Taeping’ were level. However, the shallower draught of the ‘Taeping’ allowed her to beat the tide and reach London Docks twenty minutes earlier than the ‘Ariel’, 16,000 miles and 99 days after leaving China.
The tea merchants of London were less than delighted to have such a glut of tea on the market and never offered the premium again. Captain MacKinnon returned to Tiree in glory but died the following year aged thirty-nine.
1997.246.2
George Holleyman at Hough
Photograph of George Holleyman FSA at the stone circle at Hough.
Courtesy of Ms Linda Gowans
George Holleyman is pictured during World War II standing beside the only remaining upright stone of a stone circle at Hough. A keen prehistoric archaeologist, he was posted to the RAF Station in Tiree in 1941 where he was to remain for two and a half years.
During this period, he travelled around the island capturing on camera a way of life that has since disappeared. He also collected numerous bronze objects, Stone Age flints and Iron Age pottery shards from sites at Balevullin, Kilmoluaig and Balephuil which he donated to An Iodhlann in 2000.
An antiquarian bookseller in Brighton, he will be best remembered for his archaeological work on the late Bronze Age sites at Pumpton Plain and Itford Hill in the Sussex downs. He was made a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1949.
1997.253.1
Two photographs of an unknown man and woman (formerly mounted in a wooden frame).
1997.161.5
Black and white photograph of `The Peace and Plenty` at Caoles in the late 1920s or early 1930s.
The skiff `The Peace and Plenty` at Caoles in the late 1920s or early 1930s. L-R: Donald MacDonald (Domhnall Eachainn Bhain) of Coll View, Caoles (Professor Donald Meek`s grand-uncle) and Alexander MacLean of Carnan, Caoles.
1997.161.6
Black and white postcard of Port a` Mhuilinn, Baugh.
Port a` Mhuilinn, Baugh.
