Photograph of Crossapol Bay with Beinn Hough in the background, ca 1910
Card-mounted, black & white photograph across Crossapol Bay with Beinn Hough in the backround. Taken from An Àird, Tràigh Bhàigh, by well-known art photographer Andrew Swan Watson around 1910. Watson worked in photography from at least as early as 1884 until around 1930, had a studio in Edinburgh, was the President of the Edinburgh Professional Photographers Society, won several European awards, and was noted for his photographs of clouds. This landscape shot may be one of the earliest ever taken. Information about Watson and his studio on label on reverse.
Black & white photograph of fishing boats and fishermen on the beach at Caoles around 1950, with Mull in the background. (original stored on CD in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1)
Black & white photograph of young twins Donald and Gordon playing on the beach, probably at Balevullin. From a collection of photographs from the house of Ellen Kennedy (nee Eilidh MacNeil), Balevullin.
Photograph of a mother and two daughters from Clydebank on a beach on Tiree in 1953
Black & white photograph of Mrs Cathie Macmillan, Clydebank, and her daughters Elizabeth Macmillan (now Hobden) and Catherine Macmillan (now Fowler), sitting on Soroby Beach in their swimwear and sunhats in 1953. They were visiting with Willie Macmillan, who was installing water pipes on the island. Macmillan and Paterson Ltd were a plumbing business in Clydebank. (original stored in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1)
Photograph of two women and two young Munn boys at the beach at Heanish in the 1936.
Black & white photograph of L-R: Miss Hailstones and Mrs Edith Munn, Heanish, and her two children L-R: Andrew and Eric Munn at the beach at Heanish in 1936.
Typed transcript of a poem in English written around 1933 by the Rev. Hector Cameron for the children at Cornaigmore about summers spent on the beach. Four 4-line verses beginning “When I was a laddie I often did stray”, with each verse ending “bonnie Traigh Mhor”.
Letter recollecting visits to Tiree by the gandson of William & Effie Dickie, Caoles
Handwritten letter from Jason Mauchan of Canada about his memories of his times on Tiree when he stayed with his grandparents William & Effie Dickie of Caoles in the 1970s-80s.
