Black and white photograph of Alasdair Brown, Balephuil, at a Tiree Agricultural Show in the 1950s.
Alasdair Brown, Balephuil, with a prize Clydesdale at an Agricultural Show held at Crossapol in the 1950s.
2000.26.20
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2000.26.21
Alick MacNeill of Balephuil
Photograph of Alick MacNeill of Balephuil at an Agricultural Show in the 1950s.
Courtesy of Mrs Doris MacLean
Alick MacNeill of Main Road Farm, Balephuil is pictured at an Agricultural Show in Crossapol in the 1950s. A prize was awarded for the best horse, cart and harness. Tractors became more common after World War II, before which crofters depended on draught horses for ploughing and transporting crops.
Note the tractor wheels on the cart. Although not a large as the old iron wheels, the rubber tyres made travelling quieter and more comfortable. It was also considerably easier for the horses pulling the cart. Young horses in particular were alarmed by the noise of the old iron wheels.
One of the major events in the local calendar since the 1880s, the Show was originally held in Scarinish, moved to Crossapol in the 1940s and then to Whitehouse at Cornaig in 1996. Since 2004 it has been located at the new Rural Centre at Crossapol.
Black and white photograph of Alex MacNeill, Balephuil, at aTiree Agricultural Show in the 1950s.
Alex MacNeill of Main Road Farm, Balephuil at an Agricultural Show in Crossapol in the 1950s. Note the tractor wheels on the cart. Although not a large as the old iron wheels (see cart in the background on the right), the rubber tyres made travelling quieter and more comfortable and made pulling the cart considerably easier for the horses. Young horses in particular were alarmed by the noise of the old iron wheels.
2000.26.25
Black and white photograph of Alex MacNeill, Balephuil, at an Agricultural Show in the 1950s.
Alex MacNeill of Main Road Farm, Balephuil at an Agricultural Show in Crossapol in the 1950s. Note the elaborate show harness and the tractor wheels on the cart. In comparison with the old iron wheels, the rubber tyres made travelling quieter and more comfortable and made pulling the cart considerably easier for the horses.
2003.16.4
Newspaper cutting about plans for this year`s Agricultural Show.
The hopes and plans for the Argricultural Show to be held at Whitehouse in july 2003.
2000.22.3
Black and white postcard of a cattle show at Crossapol
Postcard of a cattle show at Crossapol.
2000.22.16
Black and white photograph of John MacDonald, Kilmoluaig with his prize mare in the late 1940s.
John MacDonald, Kilmoluaig with his prize mare at a cattle show in the late 1940s.
2002.160.1
Audio cassette recording of Hugh Archie MacCallum interviewed by Maggie Campbell on 28/9/2002.
Hugh Archie MacCallum talks to Maggie Campbell in September 2002 about the Cornaigbeg crofts, the crofters’ names and patronymics; old and new methods of farming, seaweed and its uses, cattle shows; shebeens, shops, cobblers, the grocer’s horse-drawn van; the old schoolhouse at Cornaig and the United Free Church at Whitehouse; the evil eye; the shipwreck of the Malve during World War I. Eòghann Èairdsidh ’Ic Chaluim a’ bruidhinn ri Magaidh Chaimbeul anns an t-Sultain 2002 mu croitean Chòrnaig Bhige, ainmean agus sloinneadhan nan croitearan, dòighean sean agus ùr air croitearachd, feamainn, fèill cruidh, shebeens, bùthan, greasaichean, carbad bùtha air a tharraing le each, an t-seann sgoil Chòrnaig agus an Eaglais Shaor aig an Taigh Gheal, an droch shùil, am Malve a chaidh air na sgeirean aig àm a’ Cheud Chogadh.
1997.183.3
Black and white photograph of the Tiree Agricultural Show, 1950.
Tiree Agricultural Show, 1950.
1997.159.4
Black and white photograph of the Tiree Show in 1921.
The Tiree Show in 1921. (The young man is Archie MacKinnon, the two girls probably Lady Frances Balfour`s grand-daughters Catriona and Elizabeth Milne.)
1997.159.5
Black and white photograph Lady Frances Balfour at the Tiree Show in 1921.
Lady Frances Balfour at the Tiree Show in 1921.
