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2021.38.1

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Softback book ‘Forgotten Greens’ by Harry Ward, 2019, about the abandoned golf courses of Scotland. Tiree’s golf courses at Balinoe, Cornaigmore, Heylipol, Kirkapol, Scarinish and Vaul are included on pages 111-112. Signed for An Iodhlann by the author.

| Tags: balinoe, cornaigmore, golf, heylipol, kirkapol, scarinish, vaul|
| Dates: 1800s, 1900s, 2000s| | Townships: balinoe, cornaigmore, heylipol, kirkapol, scarinish, vaul| | Object Types: book|

2021.37.3

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Colour postcard photograph of croft land at Kilkenneth, with Middleton-Sandaig and Kenavara in the distance, by Sue Anderson, Coll.

| Tags: crofting, kennavara, kilkenneth, middleton, sandaig|
| Dates: 1980s, 1990s, 2000s| | Townships: kilkenneth, middleton, sandaig| | Object Types: photograph|

2021.37.2

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Colour postcard photograph of Am Baile Ur, Balephuil, from the beach in around 2020. Produced by Celtic Camera for Buth a’ Bhaile, Crossapol.

| Tags: balephuil, beaches|
| Dates: 2000s, 2010s, 2020s| | Townships: balephuil| | Object Types: photograph|

2021.37.1

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Softback book ‘Remote, Small but Essential’ by D J F Haselsteiner, 2021. A guide to 100 regional airports in Europe, including Tiree and Coll.

| Tags: air travel, airports, coll|
| Dates: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s| | Object Types: book|

2021.36.1

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Scanned record sheet issued by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission for Private Hector McDonald, Balemartine (1894-1916), who died in battle during WWI, and is remembered in Cambrin Churchyard, France. Hector was the son of Hector and Chistina Campbell McDonald of Balemartine.

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| Tags: balemartine, soldiers, world war i|
| Dates: 1890s, 1900s, 1910s| | Townships: balemartine| | Object Types: document|

2021.35.6

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Colour photo postcard of Scarinish harbour in around 1960 with the hotel in the background and the remains of the Mary Stewart and another boat on the right. Made in Inverness.

| Tags: harbours, hotels & guest houses, scarinish, ships|
| Dates: 1950s, 1960s| | Townships: scarinish| | Object Types: photograph|

2021.35.5

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Black & white postcard made up of five small images of Baugh and a cow, Tiree and of the castles and a rock on Ben Hough, Coll. Probably made by Mona MacDonald in around 1940 for her shop in Scarinish.

| Tags: baugh, castles, cattle, coll, croft house, harbours, rocks, scarinish|
| Dates: 1940s, 1950s| | Townships: baugh, scarinish| | Object Types: photograph|
| People: MacDonald, Ms Mona, Scarinish|

2021.35.4

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Black & white photo postcard of Travee, Balephuil, in around 1912. The postcard is addressed to Rev Archibald MacDonald, Islay (formerly Balephuil), and was produced by J A McNeill, Post Office, Tiree.

| Tags: balephuil, beaches, islay, ministers, post offices and postmen|
| Dates: 1910s, 1920s, 1930s| | Townships: balephuil| | Object Types: photograph|
| People: MacDonald, Rev. Archibald, Balephuil (1869 - 1930)|

2021.35.3

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Black & white photo postcard of the lighthouse keepers’ cottages and signalling tower at Hynish in around the early 1900s.

 

| Tags: hynish, lighthouses, signalling tower, skerryvore|
| Dates: 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s| | Townships: hynish| | Object Types: photograph|

2021.35.2

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Two, seven-sided copper coins issued by the Gaelic Lodge of Freemasons in the 1980s. The two coins differ only on the reverse side.

| Tags: coins, gaelic, masonic lodge|
| Dates: 1980s, 1990s| | Object Types: artefact|
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