Colour photograph of Tiree High School staff, 2001.
Tiree High School staff photograph: (L-R) back row – Nell Campbell, Brian Milne, Lorna MacDonald, Catriona Campbell, Neil Oliver, Sheila MacKinnon, Mairi Forbes, Tommy Monaghan, Margaret Straker, Stewart Smith; middle row – Fiona Brown, Flora MacPhail, Ronnie MacGowan, Elaine MacArthur, Ron Stirrat, Stuart MacLean, Kate England, Brian Findlater, June Hunter, Janie MacPhail; front row – Joyce Gillespie, Jan Paterson, Judith MacIntosh, Marion Findlater, Colin Hunter, Jessie Gray, Mary MacArthur, Anne Langley, Linda MacIntyre.
CD `Gun Sireadh, Gun Iarraidh` by Christine Primrose.
Twelve Gaelic songs.
Magazine `Gairm`, number 196, Autumn 2001.
Gaelic magazine.
Newspaper article `The Quern-Dust Calendar – Where Religion Meets Superstition`.
The mixing of superstition and religion in Gaelic poems written by Father Allan MacDonald of Eriskay.
Newspaper article `Litir do Luchd-ionnsachaidh`.
Material for Gaelic learners.
Newspaper article `The Quern-Dust Calendar – The Remarkable Father Rigg`.
Three Gaelic elegies about George Rigg, parish priest of Daliburgh in South Uist from 1894 to 1897.
Newspaper article `Litir do Luchd-ionnsachaidh`
Material for Gaelic learners.
Newspaper article `Litir do Luchd-ionnsachaidh`
Material for Gaelic learners.
Colour photograph of Alasdair Sinclair, Brock modelling a woman`s bonnet, blouse and skirt.
Alasdair Sinclair photographed in August 2001 in front of An Iodhlann modelling a woman`s black bonnet, blouse and skirt made in the early 20th century.
Kelp ridge at the foot of Kennavara.
Photograph of an old kelp ridge at the foot of Kennavara.
Kelp is a general name for long-stemmed brown seaweeds, of which, it is estimated, there are over 300,000 tonnes around the shores of Tiree. Its ashes were a rich source of the soda and potash needed to make soap and glass, and to bleach linen.
During the Napoleonic Wars, Britain was unable to import alkalis from Spain and the price for kelp ash soared from £2 to £12 a ton. The estate encouraged people to come to Tiree to work in the booming industry and the population reached 4,450 in 1831.
Kelp was cut with a sickle from the rocks at spring low tides, dried on stone ridges by the shore and then burnt in the summer in long U-shaped pits. These ridges and pits can still be seen around the shore, particularly at Craiginnis, and between Kennavara and Traigh Bhì.
Colour photograph of kelp-drying ridge at Kennavara.
Old ridge at the foot of Kennavara once used to dry kelp.
