Old fashioned life jacket
Old style life preserver made from white, heavy cotton/linen and bearing text “Salvus life jacket” and “reversed”.
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Aiport Ambulance First Aid box
Large white-painted wooden chest containing First Aid equipment of the ambulance service at Tiree Aerodrome pre-1980. A typed inventory of items present includes: bandages, dressings, gauze, cotton wool, tourniquets, rescue sheets, paracetamol, pins, plasters, drinking glass, scissors and casualty labels.
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Brass binnacle compass salvaged from the front of a boat that washed up at Sloc a` Cheum, Kennavara, in 1935.
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Aldis signalling lamp from WWII
`Aldis` signalling lamp in metal and canvas carrying box. Owned by Ian Atkin`s (Balephuil) father during WWII when he was stationed at RAF Tiree. Used to signal the SS Laristan which foundered on rocks behind Ben Hough during WWII. Includes bulb, morse-code switch, colour filters and aperture adjusters.
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Photograph of mail and newspapers being hoited from the ferry around 1945
Black & white photograph of the mail and newspapers being hoisted from the ferry to Gott pier around 1945. On the lower left is Neil MacLeod, Kilmoluaig (Ian MacLeod`s uncle) in his postman`s uniform. Original stored on CD in filing cabinet 9 drawer 4.
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CD containing a photograph of mail being delivered to Tiree by ferry ca. 1945
Black & white photograph of the mail and newspapers being hoisted from the ferry to Gott pier around 1945. On the lower left is Neil MacLeod, Kilmoluaig (Ian MacLeod`s uncle) in his postman`s uniform. Includes 2nd (defective?) CD of same and prints of 2 of the 3 images.
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Photograph and artwork of Archibald MacDonald, 1912
Black carboard box containing card-framed sections of the original montage of artwork, photograph and text: [large wood and glass framed montage of a sepia photograph of Archibald MacDonald aged about 17, surrounded by watercolour paintings of flowering plants painted by him whilst at school. Two plaques at the foot of the frame read “These drawings were done by Archibald MacDonald in the year 1912 while attending Cornaigmore Higher Grade School. In the year 1914 he went to Oban High School” and “Rector of Cornaigmore Higher Grade School Mr Ross, Rector of Oban High School Mr Kennedy”. Archibald probably served and died during WWI. A note with the picture written by Angus (Pier Road) in 2008(?), states that it was “made by one of the people of `Lagnachuach, Cornaig`. The varnish on the frame appears to have been partly stripped]. Re-formatted under instruction by Dr John Holliday, An Iodhlann, 2013/14
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Gaelic map of the World, 2003
Map of the world with countries and placenames in Gaelic. Scale 1:22,000,000
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Collection of animal bones, pottery shards and assorted objects from Kirkapol Chapel
Collection of assorted animal bones, teeth & horn (42), pottery shards (23), metal fixings (16), broken glass (8), and fragments of ceramic “In Loving Memory” dedication (3), found during survey/excavation/restoration of the old kirk at Kirkapol chapels in 2002. The bones and shards were found on wall plates.
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Brass rubbing from Kirkapol Church
Length of white linen depicting a broadsword on an ornate background. Painted in brown and black from a brass rubbing made by Fiona MacKinnon, Kirkapol, in Kirkapol Church, ca 2008. Originally stretched over a wooden frame and used as a curtain pelmet.
