Book ` The Summer Walkers`, 1996
Softback book about the origins of Scotland`s travelling people, their stories, poetry, songs, customs, superstitions and secret `cover tongue`.
2014.25.3
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2014.25.2
Book `A Thorn in the King`s Foot`, 1987
Softback book by Duncan & Linda Williamson containing folk tales of Travelling people in Scotland.
2014.25.1
Book `The Yellow on the Broom`, 1979
Softback book by Betsy Whyte relating the memoirs of a young traveller woman in Perthshire, as well as telling of the lore and customs of Travelling people.
2014.24.1
Hand drill from the 1930s
Iron and wooden hand-turned drill used during the 1930s.
2014.23.1
Postcard to Bob Petrie, Scarinish Hotel, 1975
Handwritten letter on a blank postcard to Bob Petrie, owner of the Scarinish Hotel, on 15th Jan. 1975, from Duncan M Mellis, regarding an enclosed old postcard of a line drawing of the hotel around 1906 (photo K2).
2014.22.3
Photograph of Mary MacDonald, traveller, around 2003
Colour photograph of Mary MacDonald who was a traveller. She came regularly to Tiree as a young woman with her mother `Cleamag`. Original stored in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1.
2014.22.2
Letter about the Walker family of Kenovay, 2013
Letter from Mairi MacKinnon, Parkhouse, dated 14 Sep 2013, about the history of the Walker family of Kenovay, particularly Archibald Walker who was a gunner during WWI. Also mentions Donald Walker.
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2014.22.1
Transcript of a press cutting about the suffering of emmigrants to Canada, 1849
Printed transcription of a newspaper article from the Inverness Advertiser in 1849 about the poor conditions faced by western islanders when they landed in Canada in the mid- 1800s, their welfare and tragic losses.
2014.21.4
Book `Popski`s Private Army` by Vladimir Peniakoff
Softback book about the wartime adventures of Vladimir Peniakoff (nickname `Popski`), who formed his own elite fighting force in the North African Desert during WWII. The foreword is by John Campbell who owned the yacht `Oceana` when it grounded and broke up on Crossapol Beach at Baugh in 1949.
2014.21.3
Citations of John Campbell`s war medals
Printed pages from the website of Friends of Popski`s Private Army, citing the medals of John Davies Campbell earned during service in Europe in WWII. John Campbell was the owner of the yacht `Oceana` that grounded and broke up on Crossapol Beach at Baugh during a storm in 1949.