Black & white photoprint of a scanned postcard of a horse and cart on the beach at Gott Bay in around 1920. Titled ‘”Silversands” Tiree’.
2022.17.2
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2022.16.8
Colour photograph of a traditional boat ‘Isabella’ on Gott Bay in around 1990.
2022.16.3
Large black & white photograph of windsurfer Keith Dobney and others on a beach during the Tiree Wave Classic windsurfing championship in October 1989.
2022.15.3
Colour postcard image of a sand art mandala created on Crossapol beach by Andrew Bowman in around 2020.
2021.53.33
Digitised copy of Observations on Tiree by Dr Walker, 1765. Dr Walker’s observations are arranged under the following headings: situation, extent, hills, harbour, tides, springs, sea, soil, rieve [reef], climate, crops, inhabitants, longevity, diseases, antiquities, agriculture, inclosures, cattle, grain, change of seed, hay, manures, turneps [turnips], price of commodities, price of labour, exports and imports, manufacture, fishery, hemp, natural productions, marble, copper, porphyry. There is no transcript for this item but see 1997.273.1.
The Rev Dr John Walker, minister of Moffat and a pioneer of scientific botany and geology, was sent to the Hebrides in 1764 and 1771 by the Commission for Annexed Estates to report on the social conditions, population and the state of manufacture, agriculture and fisheries.
Click to view a record for this item on Inveraray’s online catalogue.
From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
2022.8.1
Postcard showing a colour aerial photograph of the shore and machair to the south and west of Beinn Hough in 1981, including Greenhill and The Maze.
2021.47.1
Photographs and information about a message in a bottle found on the beach at Balephuil in winter 2011/2012. It had been launched by student Jolly Aleyoyok on 28 July 2011 at Baffin Island, Canada, as part of The Drift Bottle Project (Students on Ice Arctic Youth Expedition).
2021.45.8
Black & white photograph of RAF serviceman Alan George French standing at the east end of Soroby beach during WWII. Hynish, Mannal and Balemartine are visible in the background. The photo was taken by RAF Service Photographer, ‘Peru’ (real name unknown), while both men were serving with 518 Squadron, RAF Tiree.
2021.40.2
Colour photo postcard of Tràigh Bhì / Travee, looking east from the Kenavara shore. Photographed by J H Rutter of Balemartine and printed in Inverness.
2021.37.2
Colour postcard photograph of Am Baile Ur, Balephuil, from the beach in around 2020. Produced by Celtic Camera for Buth a’ Bhaile, Crossapol.
