Black and white photograph of Neil MacKinnon of Brock.
Neil MacKinnon of Brock, Alasdair Sinclair’s great-uncle. Neil was a sailor all his life; when he retired to Brock he fished for lobsters.
2008.27.5
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2008.27.6
Black and white photograph of Donald MacKinnon of Brock with an unknown man.
Donald MacKinnon of Brock (on the right) with an unknown man. Like his bother Neil (see photo K129), Donald was a sailor who fished for lobsters after retiring to Brock.
2008.27.7
Black and white photograph of John MacDonald of Brock.
Carpenter John MacDonald (Iain Mòr) of Brock, father of Neil, Donald and Hughina and grandfather of Charlie MacKinnon of Vaul.
2008.27.1
Black and white photograph of Nancy, Iain and Alasdair Sinclair of Brock in the 1930s.
Nancy, Iain and Alasdair Sinclair of Brock playing at the beach with a toy goose around 1933-4.
2008.27.2
Black and white photograph of Nancy, Alasdair and Iain Sinclair of Brock in the 1930s.
Nancy, Alasdair and Iain Sinclair of Brock playing with a toy goose in the sea in 1933 or 1934.
2008.19.1
Copied photograph of Alasdair Sinclair of Brock with his niece.
Alasdair Sinclair of Brock in 2006 with his niece Rev. Dr Mary Henderson who ministers near Dollar.
2006.83.1
Black and white photograph of two unknown children from Brock.
Two unknown children from a framed photograph found in Taigh Raonaild in Brock. (Donated copy in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer 4)
2005.138.1
Neil and Donald MacKinnon of Brock in their skiff, the ‘Tunnag’
Photograph of Neil and Donald MacKinnon of Brock in their skiff, the ‘Tunnag’, in the 1930s.
Courtesy of Mr Alasdair Sinclair
Neil MacKinnon, holding aloft a lobster, and his brother Donald, both from Brock, are pictured in their skiff, the ‘Tunnag’, in the early 1930s. The old men were very fussy about placing the single-entrance creels precisely so that the entrance faced the rocks where the lobsters were hiding.
Their great-nephew Alasdair Sinclair remembers, as a ten year old boy, having the job of rowing the boat while Neil placed the creels. The ‘Tunnag’ was eight feet wide with long, narrow-bladed oars. While he was trying to manoeuvre the boat, the pernickety old man would be saying, ‘Chan eil sin ceart idir. Feuch a-rithist e!’ (That’s not right at all. Do it again!)
Lobsters often hide inshore at low tide in small crevices in the rocks called ‘faichean’. Knowledge of their whereabouts were kept secret and passed down through the family.
Black and white photograph of Neil and Donald MacKinnon of Brock in the early 1930s.
L-R: Neil MacKinnon of Brock, holding aloft a lobster, and his brother Donald, both from Brock, in the skiff `Tunnag` in the early 1930s. (Neil and Donald were brothers of Alasdair Sinclair`s grandmother.)
2005.138.2
Black and white photograph of William MacKinnon of Brock in the early 1930s.
William MacKinnon of Brock making a lobster creel in the late 1920s or early 1930s. William was the brother of Neil and Donald in photo G191. Taigh Uilleim in Brock is named after him.
2005.138.4
Black and white postcard of Brock in the 1920s.
Brock in the 1920s. L-R: Taigh Uilleim, ruin of Taigh Raonaild, Taigh Clèirich and Taigh Chìorstaidh.
