Cotton bag originally containing 70 lb of flour, producer`s name faded and illegible.
2002.78.2
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2002.78.1
Three cotton reels.
Three wooden cotton reels with thread from `Melness`, Cornaigbeg. One is made by J & P Coats of Paisley, James Coats donated hundreds of books to Tiree’s schools and to the Reading Room (now An Iodhlann).
2000.10.41
CD `Bliadhna Mhath Ur 1998/99`.
A selection of songs and music by some of the best singers and musicians in Lewis.
2000.10.30
Journal `Na Duilleagan Gaidhlig`, No 1, 2000.
Article about the Rev. Neil Mackinnon.
2000.10.29
Bound extract from `The Dictionary of National Biography, vol III` edited by Sir Leslie Stephen and Sir Sidney Lee, pp 764-825
Biographies of the Earls and Dukes of Argyll.
2000.10.28.1
Biographical and artistic information about artists Mary Barnard and Duncan MacGregor Whyte of Oban and Balephuil.
Bound book extracts about Duncan MacGregor Whyte and his wife Mary Barnard from the `Dictionary of Scottish Art & Architecture` by Peter J.M. McEwan , pp 63, 605 and `The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition 1826-1990` edited by Charles Baile de Laperriere, p 420. Includes a list of works exhibited by Duncan MacGregor Whyte. DMcGW built The Studio at Balephuil and painted many scenes and portraits of Tiree.
2000.10.27
Book extract `The Silver Darlings – John Knox of the British Fisheries Society` from `The Discovery of the Hebrides – Voyagers to the Western Isles 1745-1883` by Elizabeth Bray, pp 130-131, 143-146.
Knox`s survey of the Hebrides in 1786 for the British Fisheries Society. Biographical information about Knox, and descriptions from his tour.
2000.10.26
Extract from John Knox’s Tour through the Highlands and the Hebrides in 1786
Transcription of an extract from ‘A Tour through the Highlands of Scotland and the Hebride Isles, in 1786’ by John Knox.
In 1786 the British Society for Extending the Fisheries sent John Knox to the north and west coasts of Scotland to prospect for new harbours and fishing grounds. During his visit to Tiree, he surveyed the coastline and concluded that Gott Bay was the most practicable place for a pier.
This was in line with the thinking of the Society’s Governor, the 5th Duke of Argyll, who over the previous fifteen years had encouraged settlement in a new fishing village at Scarinish by offering ‘a few years’ free possession of a house-room, two acres of arable and a cow’s grass.’
In 1793 the Duke again instructed the island’s Chamberlain to encourage his tenants to attend to the fishing. However, in a list of exports from Tiree in the following year there is still no mention of any fish being sent from the island.
The full publication is available to borrow from An Iodhlann: 2017.50.3
2000.10.25.2
Brochures by the Hebridean Trust about The Hynish Centre, 2000
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2000.10.24
Photocopy of letter (e-mail?) from Rosie Donovan to Doctor Holliday.
Letter to doctors interviewed and photographed for the `Single Handed` exhibition to inform them of its opening, and to ask whether it could be mounted in doctors` communities.