Black and white postcard of a view of Mull from Tiree.
Postcard of Taigh Eoghainn Anna (also known as Taigh Alasdair `ic Neill) with the Mull mountains in the background.
1999.233.4
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1999.233.5
Black and white postcard of Scarinish harbour.
Postcard of Scarinish harbour with the hotel in the background.
2003.20.1
Colour photograph of Angus MacKechnie, Alasdair and Ellen Campbell in 1999.
L-R: Alasdair Campbell (son of Maggie Campbell, Kilmoluaig), Angus MacKechnie of Crossapol and Ellen Campbell, Alasdair`s daughter, taken at the airport on the day Angus retired from the airport fire service in November 1999.
2003.21.1
Photograph of Mary MacPhee, her baby, and a friend outside the old telephone exchange at Scarinish in 1949.
Courtesy of Mrs Mary MacPhee
Mary T. MacPhee, a friend and Mary’s son, either Christopher or Neil Urquhart in the pram, pictured outside the old telephone exchange in Scarinish in 1949. Mary had previously worked shifts at the Pitt Street exchange in Glasgow which had around two hundred operators.
In Scarinish, Mary worked twenty-four hours a day. The building had three bedrooms, a bathroom, a kitchen and a sitting room which contained the switchboard. The operator had to connect all calls by hand. If a call came in at night an alarm bell rang in the operator’s bedroom.
Mary recalls there being only around five private telephones on the island in 1949. Calls cost one penny, sixpence or a shilling and all were monitored. The operator would interrupt to advise when the time was nearly up.
2003.22.1
Alick MacNeill’s turn-out at a 1950s Agricultural Show
Photograph of Alick MacNeill, Donald MacLean and Donald MacIntyre at an Agricultural Show at Crossapol in the early 1950s.
Courtesy of Mr Donald MacIntyre
The Tiree Agricultural Show was started in the 1880s by Tom Barr, the tenant of Balephetrish farm, to encourage local crofters to improve their stock of breeding horses and their income. Around 1900, a stirk (one-year-old calf) would fetch £4 to £5 whereas a good year-old filly foal would fetch £25 to £30.
At the Shows in the 1950s prizes were given for the best horse in a number of classes: Clydesdale geldings and mares, Highland ponies, cross geldings, mares, fillies or colts and any breed of foal. There was also a special prize for the best horse, cart and harness.
Alick MacNeill of Main Road Farm in Balephuil, Donald MacLean of Vaul and Donald MacIntyre of Gott are pictured at a Show at Crossapol in the early 1950s. By this time tractors had replaced the horse and Alick’s turn-out was the only entrant in its class.
Black and white photograph of Alick MacNeill, Donald MacLean and Donald MacIntyre.
Agricultural show at Crossapol in 1951 or 52. L-R: Alick MacNeill, Main Road Farm, Balephuill; Donald MacLean, Vaul; Donald MacIntyre, Gott.
2003.18.15
Colour photograph of Am Bail` Ur in Balephuill.
Am Bail` Ur in Balephuill photographed by Morton Boyd in the 1940s or 50s.
2003.18.33
Black and white photograph of Alasdair Mor MacDonald and Rena MacDonald in Kilmoluaig.
Alasdair Mor MacDonald and Rena MacDonald in Kilmoluaig, photographed by the Glasgow Herald in the 1960s or 70s.
2003.18.16
Black and white photograph of Kate MacDonald of Bail` Ur, Balephuill.
(L-R) Kate MacDonald (Ceit Chalein) of Bail` Ur, Balephuill, holidaymaker Miss Irvine and Mina Lindsay, photographed by Morton Boyd in the 1940s or 50s.
2003.18.34
Black and white photograph of Alasdair Mor MacDonald in Kilmoluaig.
Alasdair Mor MacDonald in front of his thatched house in Kilmoluaig, photographed by the Glasgow Herald in the 1960s or 70s.
2003.18.17
Colour photograph of Duncan MacDonald of Bail` Ur, Balephuill.
Duncan MacDonald (Donnchadh Bhan Mac Sheumais) of Bail` Ur, Balephuill, photographed by Morton Boyd in the 1940s or 50s.
