Object Type: photograph

2003.18.43

Black and white photograph of Heylipol school in 1936.

Heylipol School (Sgoil na Mointich) in 1934-5. L-R: (back row) Flora Nisbet, Heanish; Donald Kennedy, Balephuil; Jimmy Campbell, Heylipol; Donald A MacDonald, Kilkenneth; Hugh MacKinnon, Hough; James MacKinnon, Moss; John Henderson, Moss; Willie MacLean (Uilleam Mòr), Barrapol/Balinoe; Donald Campbell (Dòmhnall Shandaidh Bhain), Moss; Archie MacArthur, Middleton; James Campbell, headmaster from Campbeltown; (2nd back row) Annie MacKinnon, Hough; Annie Cameron, Moss (m. Walter MacKinnon); Morag MacLean, Hough; Kate MacArthur, Middleton; Katie Ann Campbell, Heylipol; Annie Walker, Moss; Peggy Murray née MacNeill, the Land, Barrapol; Janet Campbell, Moss; Archie MacLean, Hough; (2nd front row) Neil MacNeill (Neil an tailleir), the Land, Barrapol; Cathy MacLean, Heylipol; Flora MacArthur (Floraidh Alasdair), Sandaig; Mary MacArthur (Mairi Alasdair), Sandaig; Annie Campbell (Anna Iain Bhain), Barrapol; Mary Henderson, Moss; Johann MacKinnon née Brownlie, Barrapol; Margaret Campbell, Heylipol; Peggy MacLean, Hough; (front row) Calum Henderson, Moss; Hector Campbell (Eachann Iain Bhain), Barrapol; Neil Brownlie, Barrapol; Nancy MacLean, Heylipol (sister of 22); Nonaidh Campbell, Heylipol; Hector MacNeill (Eachann an tailleir), the Land; Archie MacLean, Hough House; John MacArthur, Middleton; Neil MacLean, Hough.

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1999.60.6

The view from Balephetrish Hill by Robert Bruce Webster

Photograph of a watercolour painting of the view from Balephetrish Hill in 1928 by Robert Bruce Webster, D.A.

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Born in Edinburgh in 1892, Robert Bruce Webster was a Scottish watercolourist whose principle productive period lay between the early 1920s and 1950s. He trained at Edinburgh College of Art and served throughout World War I.

Subsequently he taught professionally at Barnstable Grammar School in Devon, and at Dollar Academy and Edinburgh Ladies College. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Society of Watercolourists, the Society of Scottish Artists and Glasgow Fine Arts Society.

He visited Tiree with his wife and children in 1928, during which time he painted several views of the island including this one looking north-east from Balephetrish Hill towards Rum and Skye. He died in Fife in 1959.

Colour photograph of a painting of the view from Balephetrish Hill by Robert Bruce Webster.

Watercolour painting of the view from Balephetrish Hill in 1928 by Robert Bruce Webster.