Black and white photograph of two visiting brothers, Richard and Paul Noble, standing outside a black-roofed house in 1969, and their story about their efforts to revisit the house in 2018, believing it to have belonged to Mrs Mary Flora Chicken, in whose house they stayed.
Photocopied newspaper article titled ‘A Man Most Worthy’ about John Gillies, at his retirement from service as a Church of Scotland Missionary in Tiree in 1954. Includes a photograph of himself and his dog.
Black & white photograph of Effie MacInnes (“Granny MacDougall”) and Colin Cameron with child Robert Doncaster, at The Green, Kilmoluaig (“mother – Mor Kennedy”), with a cooking pot outside a barn.
Black & white photograph of black-roofed houses at The Green, Kilmoluaig, with the wreck of the SS Ingrid on the rocks in the background. SS Ingrid was a Norwegian steamship, which struck rocks off The Green in January 1942 enroute from the Tyne to Hampton Roads and Cuba.
Black & white photograph of L-R: Dugald MacKinnon, Caoles (“Mackenzie’s grandfather”) and Hector MacKinnon, Kilmoluaig (“Mackinnon’s grandfather”) aboard the ‘Coll Castle’.
Black & white photograph of ‘Taigh Fionaghall’, Balemartine, with “Aunt Margaret” at the door, in the summer of 1934. Note that since 1924, the thatched roof has been replaced with tarred felt.