Object Type: photograph

1997.148.34

Black and white photograph of Scarinish School in 1936.

Scarinish School in 1936. L-R: (back row) Miss Jean MacFarlane, teacher; Mr Dixon Bennett, trainee teacher; Angus Munn, Heanish; Donald MacDonald; Lachlan MacFadyen; Donald MacLean; Lachlan MacKinnon; John MacDonald; Katherine C. Nisbet, headmistress; (2nd back row) Neil MacKinnon; John Peter MacDonald; Annie MacFarlane; Cathie MacDonald; Mona MacDonald; Hetty MacDonald; Flora MacFarlane; Cathie Munn; Archibald MacDonald; (middle row, left) Isobel Campbell; Mamie Miller; (2nd front row) Netta MacLean; Katie MacLean; Catriona MacKinnon; May MacArthur; Mary MacKinnon; Anne MacArthur; (front row) Willie MacPhee; unknown; John MacDonald; Donald MacDonald; John George MacLean.

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1997.148.21

Black and white postcard of Heanish hospital.

The fever hospital on Heanish machair. Built in 1905 of corrugated iron over a wooden frame, it contained a two-bedded ward at either end with a kitchen, nurse`s room and bathroom in the centre. It was first used within months of opening when two families went down with diphtheria. By 1927, Dr Hunter reported it was only occasionally used and it was let out to a family on the condition that they vacated it at once if needed for patients. The hospital was last used in the 1940s, then let to Council roadmen and finally sold as a private house in the 1960s.

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