Black and white photograph of the Tiree Pipe Band arriving at the World Championships in Oban in 1967.
Oban Times photograph of the Tiree Pipe Band arriving at the World Championships in Oban in 1967. Apart from the Pipe Band, the other Tiree people in the picture are William Sloan (secretary of RSPBA), Seumas MacNeill, Professor Donald Meek, Iain Lamont, Mrs Sheena Beck and her sons Drew and Robin.
Colour photograph of the café at Viewfield, Crossapol in the 1950s.
The café at Viewfield, Crossapol in the 1950s. L-R: Annie Brown, Crossapol; Mary Davies and her daughters Monica and Donna; Mary`s mother Dolina MacCallum nee MacInnes; Fiona Langley (sister of Stuart and Keith).
Colour photograph of the café at Viewfield, Crossapol in the 1950s.
Outside the café at Viewfield, Crossapol in the 1950s. L-R: The MacCallum sisters Peggy, Jessie Ann and Mary.
Copied black and white photograph of Donald MacKinnon, Hough and Catriona MacLean, Kilmoluaig.
Catriona MacLean nee Sinclair (wife of Lachie MacLean, Kilmoluaig) and Donald MacKinnon, Hough in Crossapol in the mid-1960s.
Copied black and white photograph of Nancy MacKechnie and Maggie Campbell with her son Alasdair in 1965.
L-R: Nancy MacKechnie née Sinclair of Crossapol and Maggie Campbell née MacKechnie of Kilmoluaig with her son Alasdair on his christening day in 1965.
Copied black and white group photograph taken at Crossapol in the mid-1960s.
Crossapol in the mid-1960s.
L-R: (back) John Sinclair, Annie Middleton née Kennedy, Catriona MacLean née Sinclair, Flora MacLeod of Balemartine (married to Duncan Cameron of Scarinish), unknown visitor, (front) Katie Mary MacLean of Kenovay, Catriona’s first cousin Nancy MacKechnie née Kennedy.
Black and white photograph of six wedding guests outside Crossapol Hall.
Wedding guests outside the old hall at Crossapol. L-R: Lachie MacDonald, Sandaig; Angus MacArthur, Balephuil; Willie MacCallum, Sandaig; Hector Campbell, Barrapol; Donald Kennedy, Balevullin; Hugh Mitchell, Balephuil sliabh. (Original postcard in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer 2)
Sandaig Terrace
Photograph of Sandaig Terrace in the early 20th century.
Courtesy of Mr Lachie MacLean
The design of Tiree’s thatched houses (known as ‘taighean-tugha’) is markedly different from those on the mainland and even from traditional houses on the other islands. The rounded curves of the roof and the complex pattern of ropes holding the thatch down make a Tiree ‘taigh-tugha’ unmistakable.
On the outer islands the usual pattern was a combined dwelling and byre with one door. Cattle were housed to the right and people lived to the left. Only one house like this has been found on Tiree where the standard design was the house, byre, workshops and sheds built joined in a line.
Traditionally Tiree houses face east. “Cùl ri gaoith, aghaidh ri grèin” (back to the wind, face to the sun) and “An ear ’s an iar, an dachaigh as fheàrr” (east and west, the best home) are two Gaelic proverbs from Tiree.
Black and white postcard of Sandaig Terrace.
Sandaig Terrace. On the left the MacLeish’s house, on the right the present site of the Sandaig Museum. (Original postcard in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer 2)
Colour photograph of the gravestone of Archibald Campbell (1792-1841), miller at Cornaig.
The gravestone of Archibald Campbell (1792-1841), miller at Cornaig, in Soroby graveyard.
Colour photograph of the gravestone of Archibald Campbell (1792-1841), miller at Cornaig.
The gravestone of Archibald Campbell (1792-1841), miller at Cornaig, in Soroby graveyard.
