Photograph of the Tiree Pipe Band on stage in 2006
Colour photograph of Tiree Pipe Band playing to a packed audience in An Talla during the A` Bhuain homecoming in 2006. Original held on CD in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1.
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Photograph of a group of singers and musicians on stage in 2006
Colour photograph of singers and musicians performing on stage to a packed audience in An Talla during the A` Bhuain homecoming in spring 2006. Some of the performers are Tiree diaspora. Original held on CD in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1.
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Photograph of the Napier Commission play at An Talla in 2006
Colour photograph of Tiree amateur actors performing scenes from a play about the Napier Commission 1883 into the living conditions and treatment of crofters during the 1800s. Directed by Mabel MacArthur and performed at An Talla during the A` Bhuain homecoming in spring 2006. On stage (L-R): Barbara MacIntyre, Gott; John Fletcher, Balemartine; John Bowler, Balephuil (as Lord Napier); unknown; Lachie Brown, Balevullin; Mark Beese, Kilmoluaig; John MacLean, Balephuil; `Bear` MacKinnon, Balinoe; Alasdair `Billy the Post`. Original held on CD in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1.
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Photograph of a packed audience in An Talla in 2006
Colour photograph of An Talla`s main hall at full capacity (and some more) during a performance of the Napier Commission play in 2006. The play was written and performed for the A` Bhuain homecoming of the Tiree diaspora. Original held on CD in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1.
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Photograph of a play about the Napier Commission in An Talla in 2006
Colour photograph of Tiree amateur actors on stage in An Talla during the A` Bhuain homecoming in spring 2006. The play was based on the Napier Commission of 1883 held to investigate the living conditions and treatment of crofters in the late 1800s. On stage are (L-R): Barbara MacIntyre, Gott; John Fletcher, Balemartine; John Bowler, Balephuil (as Lord Napier); unknown group; Danny Lapsley, Caoles; unknown at lecturn; `Bear` MacKinnon, Balinoe; Mark Beese, Kilmoluaig; John MacLean, Balephuil; Alasdair `Billy the Post`; Rebecca Wright, Heylipol; unknown children. Original held on CD in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1.
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Photograph of a dance held during A` Bhuain 2006
Colour photograph of people dancing in An Talla during the A` Bhuain homecoming for the Tiree diaspora in spring 2006. L-R: unknown; unknown; Jessie Gray, Balemartine; unknown; Flora MacLean, Druimfraoich; Louise MacDougall, Scarinish; Liz and Danny Lapsley, Caoles; Janice Campbell; Michael Holliday, Baugh (background); Jaclyn Langley, Scarinish (background); unknown dancing with Lynsey Gray, Balemartine. Original held on CD in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1.
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Photograph of passengers awaiting departure at Tiree airport in 2006
Colour photograph of attendees of the A` Bhuain homecoming in the passenger terminal of Tiree airport awaiting their flight home at the end of the event in spring 2006. Include Lachie Brown, Balevullin, and Nanette Mitchell, Milton. Original held on CD in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1.
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Photograph of a gathering on Coll before 1913
Sepia postcard photograph of an outdoor gathering of well-dressed adults and children watching a piper, thought to be on the Isle of Coll before 1913. The reverse side of the postcard is stamped Nov. 1913, and was written at the Coll Post Office by Mary Clement to her mother in Port Appin. When the family lived on Coll, Mary`s brother, Jim, had the longest long-jump on the island, which was marked out for many years. He was a member of the Territorial Army and served in WWI. (Original and further information stored in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1)
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Photograph of Mary MacKinnon outside Morven House (Drover`s Cottage), Barrapol, ca 1922
Black & white photograph of Mrs Mary MacKinnon (nee McKenzie), wife of Neil MacKinnon, at the gate of her thatched house at Barrapol. Note that the entrance is just a narrow gap in the wall, just wide enough to step through.
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Photograph of the rear of Drover`s Cottage in 1922
Black & white photograph of the rear (north side) of Drover`s Cottage, Barrapol, in 1922, with Mrs Mary MacKinnon and her two daughters Euphemia MacKinnon and Christina MacKinnon in front.
