Notes and information about the Balephuil fishing disaster of 1856
Three pages of typed notes about the Balephuil fishing disaster of 1856, compiled by Alan Boyd in 2014.
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Aviator goggles from WWII
Two pairs of flying goggles (damaged) made of sections of flat glass held in adjustable brass frames with leather padding and rubber straps. Probably worn by RAF pilots based on Tiree during World War 2. Found in the shed of the late John George MacLean at Scarinish.
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Photograph of Vaul beach ca 1960
Copy of a colour transparency of the bay and beach at Vaul, photographed from the west around 1960.
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Photograph of Lower Vaul ca 1939
Copy of colour transparency of Billy and Jean Taylor (Meena Knapman’s parents) walking by a black-roofed house by the old road in Lower Vaul around 1939
The location is outside Lazy Charlie’s House just beyond Seaside
in Lower Vaul – it is now a ruin as it was in 1960 but not in the
1930s. Meena Knapman remembered Lazy Charlie when she first
came to Tiree as a child in the 1920s & 1930s
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Photograph of the old road for Lower Vaul ca 1940
Copy of colour transparency of an elderly couple walking down the old road to Lower Vaul around 1939
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Photograph of Mary Stoker, Meena Knapman, Isabel Weatherston & Ethel Gibson (in car) around 1980
Colour photograph of Mary Stoker, Meena Knapman, Isabel Weatherston and Ethel Gibson (in car) around 1980. Rona Campbells house in background on Pier Road.
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Photograph of a group of people at Dunmore, Vaul, around 1950
Copy of a colour transparency of 18 adults and children outside Rum View around 1939.
Includes visitors who stayed in Rum View that year plus Catriona MacInnon of Rum View. Billy and Jean Taylor are in the picture who
were the parents of Meena Knapman, (nee Taylor) wo possibly took
the photograph.
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Photograph of a woman feeding a gull ca 1940
Copy of a colour transparency of a woman feeding a black-backed gull from the ferry around 1940.
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Photograph of people in a tractor trailer, 1960s
Black & white photograph of members of the Knapman family being driven to the shops by tractor and trailer at Vaul in the 1960s.
Four members of the Knapman family plus Iain
MacDonald, Dunmore and one other unidentified visitor
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Photograph of a cow being loaded onto the ferry, 1930s
Black & white photograph of a cow being hoisted by winch onto the deck of the Claymore ferry at Coll during the 1930s.