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Lead and acid accumulator `battery` used in the 1940s
Lead-acid 2V accumulator made by the Chloride Electrical Storage Company around 1940-1950. Two lead plates submerged in sulphuric acid (no longer present) within a glass box with carrying handle. The accumulator would be charged every week and used for powering radio sets (heated the valves).
Yacht`s water-speed and distance reader ca 1970
WASP speed and distance log (nautical miles) with spinner for trailing on a line behind a yacht. Used around 1970. Contained within purpose-made wooden box.
Book `The Concise Home Doctor`, 1932
Large hardback encyclopedia of health advice, ailments, preventatives and treatments for the family.
Photos and transcripts from Kirkapol grave stones
Red ring-bound folder of photographs of many of the gravestones in Kirkapol cemetery and typed transcriptions researched by Catriona Smyth. Also includes a 5″ floppy disk of data. Draft and incomplete. For a complete account of Tiree’s graveyards, see www.tireegraves.org.uk/
Ship`s gimballed binnacle compass ca 1930s
Gimballed binnacle compass mounted on a wooden board. It would originally have been mounted in the ship`s wheelhouse. Made by Dobbie McInnes 1902-1937, but probably used in the 1930s. Unknown provenance (found in a cupboard in Tiree High School in 2014).
Portable gramophone from around 1930
`Alba` portable gramophone record player, model 505, in a brown leather-clad wooden box with hinged lid and leather carrying handle. Includes spare needle and a gramophone record of `Royal Belfast Hornpipe`.
Book `Whisky Wars, Riots and Murder`, 2013
Softback book by Malcolm Archibald about the darker side of Scottish history in the 19th century, when crime was commonplace and the forces of law and order battled to bring peace to a troubled land.
Book `Recovering from the Clearances`, 2013
Softback book based on the proceedings of a conference held on the Isle of Lewis in 2012, about the long and difficult process of land recovery by the descendents of the dispossessed and recent developments in Community Ownership.
Includes ‘Preaching the Land Gospel: The Rev. Donald MacCallum (1849-1929) in Skye, Tiree and Lochs, Lewis’ by Donald E. Meek. (Pages 77-107)
Book ` Adomnan`s Life of Columba`, 1961
Hardback book edited by Alan Orr Anderson and Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson re-telling Adomnan`s historical document of life, culture and beliefs among the Scots of Britain and Ireland during the 8th century AD.
Book `An t-Urramach Iain MacRuairidh`, 2013
Softback book by Calum Laing about the life and writings of the Rev. John MacRury who was minister on Tiree during 1879 to 1886, and married Flora Elizabeth Brown of Tiree with whom he had eight children, two of which were born on Tiree. In Gaelic with a summary in English.
