Gott Bay pier in the 1920s
Photograph of a pig being hoisted aboard a steamer at Gott Bay pier in the 1920s.
Courtesy of Mrs Grace Campbell
In this photograph taken in the 1920s, a pig is being hoisted by a rope sling aboard a small steamer at Gott Bay pier. Canvas slings were more commonly used, but even so the pigs used to scream most horribly while in the air.
The Statistical Account of 1845 records that ‘a great number of pigs have been reared in this parish… They are generally exported alive chiefly to Glasgow and Greenock… Last spring upwards of 500 were shipped off from this island.’
The Agricultural Statistics for Tiree show that in 1867 there were only 260 pigs on the island. In 1910, the numbers had increased to 360, half of which were breeding sows. However, after 1910 the numbers declined steadily and by the mid-1960s there were none on the island
Black and white photograph of a pig being hoisted off a boat.
A pig being hoisted on or off a boat, probably taken in the 1930s.
Black and white photograph of the old lighthouse at Scarinish in 1910.
The old lighthouse at Scarinish in 1910.
Black and white photograph of puffer discharging coal into horse-drawn carts.
Puffer discharging coal into horse-drawn carts, probably in the 1930s or 1940s.
Black and white photograph of calves being fed.
Feeding calves.
Black and white photograph of puffer discharging coal into horse-drawn carts.
Puffer discharging coal into horse-drawn carts, probably in the 1930s or 1940s.
Black and white postcard of a crofter`s stable.
Postcard of a Tiree crofter with a Clydesdale mare and foal outside a stable, thought to be the old smiddy by Kirkapol church.
Black and white photograph of a stackyard.
Not displayed or indexed because quality too poor.
Black and white postcard of a painting of the Kirkapol chapels.
Painting of the Kirkapol chapels.
Black and white photograph of the funeral held at Soroby on 20/8/1944.
The funeral at Soroby graveyard of the airmen who died in a mid-air collision on 16th August 1944. The funeral was held on the 20th August. One of the dead was Flt. Lt. Leonard Revilliod whose grandfather, Tomas Masaryk, was the first President of Czechoslovakia. Attending the funeral were Leonard`s mother, Olga Masaryk (daughter of Tomas Masaryk) and Jan Masaryk (Olga`s brother), who was the Czech Ambassador to the UK. Olga Masaryk married Dr Henri Revilliod.
Black and white photograph of war graves at Soroby graveyard.
World War II graves at Soroby.
