Gott Bay pier
Postcard of Gott Bay pier.
Courtesy of Mrs Maggie Campbell
The original pier at Gott Bay, built between 1909 and 1913, extended nearly 240 metres into the bay. Several aspects of the first design were altered. The planned iron and timber viaduct was abandoned and substituted with reinforced concrete construction.
Access to the low-water slip was moved from the centre of the pier-head to the back. This led under the pier to the main deck of the boat and was used for loading animals. The pier-head itself was built on timber piles.
The piles arrived on the island with square ends and were sharpened to a point by a Swedish carpenter using an axe. When the axe broke, Lachie MacKinnon (Lachlan Mac Eòghainn Ruaidh), a boat-builder in Vaul, took over the job using an adze until a new axe was available.
Black and white postcard of Gott Bay pier.
Gott Bay pier.
Black and white postcard of a cattle show at Crossapol
Postcard of a cattle show at Crossapol.
Black and white photograph of the MacDonald sisters of Balemartine.
The MacDonald sisters from Balemartine with an unknown friend from Uist, photographed while they were in service in Glasgow in the 1920s. L-R: Unknown, Sarah MacDonald, Mary Jane MacDonald (m.s. MacLean), Chrissie MacDonald (m.s. MacDonald), Neilina MacDonald (m.s. MacCallum). (Mary Jane is the mother of the donor, Margaret Campbell of Kilmoluaig.)
Black and white photograph of Donald Campbell and Margaret MacKechnie on their wedding day in 1953.
The wedding of Donald Campbell and Margaret MacKechnie at Heylipol church on 17/7/1953. The piper is Hugh Kennedy of Kilmoluaig and Glasgow. The man to the right with the watch chain is the late George Paterson, father of Mairi Campbell, Corrairigh, and the taller of the two girls is Flora Gunn, Moss.
Black and white photograph of Donald Campbell and Margaret MacKechnie on their wedding day in 1953.
The wedding of Donald Campbell and Margaret MacKechnie at Heylipol church on 17/7/1953. The piper is Hugh Kennedy of Kilmoluaig and Glasgow.
Black and white photograph of John Docherty and Margaret Campbell nee MacKechnie c. 1944.
John Docherty and Magaret Campbell nee MacKechnie in 1944 or 45. John was from Ireland and stayed with Maggie`s parents in Kilmoluaig while he worked on the roads.
Black and white photograph of Mary Ann MacKechnie nee MacDonald with her daughter Margaret in 1931.
Mary Ann MacKechnie nee MacDonald with her daughter Margaret in Kilmoluaig in 1931.
Black and white photograph of Robert MacMaster, Mairi, Doris and Marion MacKechnie.
Double exposure of the service plane on the Reef and (L-R) Robert MacMaster and his taxi, Mairi MacKechnie, Doris MacLean nee MacKechnie and Marion MacQueen nee MacKechnie, photographed in 1943.
Black and white photograph of Murdoch MacDonald, Donald and Magaret MacKechnie in 1948-9.
L-R: Murdoch MacDonald, Kilmoluaig with his tractor, Margaret MacKechnie (m.s. Campbell) in the driving seat and her father, Donald, on their way to clean turnips in 1948-9.
Black and white photograph of Donald MacKechnie and Mary Ann MacDonald on their wedding day.
Donald MacKechnie and Mary Ann MacDonald on their wedding day in Balemartine in 1929. (Maggie Campbell`s parents)
