Black and white photograph of Hugh Campbell and his daughter Flora.
Hugh Campbell with his daughter Flora outside the smiddie at Creag Mhor, Cornaigbeg in the 1920s or 1930s. Hugh worked as a chemist in Port Glasgow and was the son of John Campbell from Garaphail and his wife Flora MacEachern, the blacksmith`s sister.
Black and white photograph of Captain Archie MacFadyen from Caoles.
Captain Archie MacFadyen of Clyde Shipping, son of Neil MacFadyen in Caoles. He died unexpectedly aged 48.
Black and white photograph of Lachie MacFadyen from Caoles.
Private Lachie MacFadyen, son of Neil MacFadyen of Ardeas in Caoles and brother of Archie (see A191). He was wounded and trapped in a ditch close to the German lines in Sicily before finally crawling back to the British lines with valuable information.
Black and white photograph of Sarah MacFarlane at her spinning wheel in the 1920s.
Sarah MacFarlane carding wool at her spinning wheel behind her house in Vaull in the 1920s.
Black and white photograph taken at Vaul in 1933.
Vaul in 1933. L-R: Duncan MacKinnon, Lodge Farm; Donald MacLean (Domhnall Sheumais); Margaret Doig; unknown; unknown.
The Co-op van at Vaul in the 1940s
Photograph of the Co-op van at Vaul in the 1940s.
Courtesy of Mrs Nan MacClounnan
This photograph, taken at Vaul in the mid-1940s, shows Catriona MacKinnon of Vaul with Margaret Doig, deputy Co-op manager Archie Robertson from Tobermory, a visitor, and van driver Neil MacNeill of Scarinish standing in front of one of the Co-op vans. A second van driven by Rob MacMaster served the west end of the island.
The vans carried a selection of basic groceries which at Christmastime included extras such as cakes and shortbread and small presents like socks and handkerchiefs. They made their rounds of the island every day of the week except Sunday and Monday.
Sometime in the 1960s the Co-op reduced their service to a single van driven by Rob MacMaster who would call at each township once a week. This ceased altogether in the early 1970s.
Black and white photograph of the Co-op van at Vaul in the 1940s.
The co-op van at Vaul in the 1940s. L-R: Catriona MacKinnon; Margaret Doig; Lorna and Morag Lee; Neil MacNeill (Cathy MacNeill`s husband).
Feeding hens at Vaul in the 1930s
Photograph of Catriona MacKinnon and Margaret Doig feeding hens at Vaul in the 1930s.
Courtesy of Mrs Nan MacClounnan
Catriona MacKinnon of Rhum View and her niece Margaret Doig are pictured feeding hens in Vaul in the 1930s. Most crofters on Tiree kept poultry, mainly hens but also some ducks. Between the wars, these numbered in total over eight thousand birds.
Up to the 1950s Tiree exported large numbers of eggs to the mainland. Eggs were bought by the local shopkeepers from their customers at a rate of 6d a dozen in payment for groceries and shipped by cargo steamer in wooden boxes of thirty dozen direct to Glasgow.
Eggs were also sent privately by post in boxes of two dozen. The eggs were protected by inserts of corrugated cardboard but even so the corner eggs often arrived broken.
Black and white photograph of Margaret Doig and her Aunt Neen in the 1930s.
Margaret Doig and her Aunt Neen (Catriona MacKinnon, Rhum View) feeding hens in Vaul the 1930s.
Black and white photograph of Taigh Sarah in Vaul in the 1920s.
Taigh Sarah in Vaul in the 1920s. L-R: Margaret Doig`s father; Sarah MacFarlane (Sarah Neill); a friend of Mr Doig. Sarah was a widow; all her family except for one son died of TB. Her house was built by the township `in a day`. A porch was added in the 1930s. The roof was tarred with heated road tar which, if put on too hot, ran down the walls.
‘Taigh Sarah’ in Vaul
Photograph of Sarah MacFarlane outside her house in Vaul in the 1920s.
Courtesy of Mrs Nan MacClounnan
Sarah MacFarlane (Sarah Nèill) is pictured on the right outside her house in Vaul in the 1920s. Sarah was a widow; all her family except for one son had died of tuberculosis, a disease that was prevalent in Tiree in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
After it was established in the 1880s that TB was contagious, it was made a notifiable disease, although it was not recognised until much later that the infection could also be transmitted through milk from infected cows.
Sarah’s original house was destroyed as it was thought a source of infection and a new one was built by the men of the township ‘in a day’. A porch was added in the 1930s. The felt roof was water-proofed with heated road tar which ran down the walls if put on in hot weather.
Black and white photograph of Taigh Sarah in Vaul in the 1920s.
Taigh Sarah in Vaul in the 1920s. L-R: unknown, Margaret Johnston nee Pettigrew, Margaret Doig`s mother; Sarah MacFarlane (Sarah Neill).
Black and white photograph of Margaret Doig`s parents in the 1920s.
Tiree in the 1920s. L-R: Harry Johnston,Margaret Doig`s father; unknown; unknown; Harry`s wife, Margaret Pettigrew; unknown; unknown. Mary Flora MacKinnon of Rhum View married Jimmy Pettigrew, Margaret`s brother.
