Booklet `Winds of Change` 2004
Booklet about the history of housing and house design on Tiree. Researched by Dr John Holliday for a summer exhibition at An Iodhlann.
2013.21.1
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2012.132.1
Photograph of `The Studio` at Balephuil
Colour photograph of the house named `The Studio` overlooking Traigh Bhi at Balephuil. Taken around the 1970s. The Studio (the low building on the right) is the former Tiree residence of the artist Duncan MacGregor Whyte who painted many portraits of Tiree people in the early 1900s.
2012.123.1
Photograph of An Iodhlann, 2012
Colour photograph of An Iodhlann building from the road, with new steps, handrail and sign, taken in spring 2012. (Original and four other copies in filing cabinet 9, drawer 4).
2012.95.7
Book “The Island Dwellings of North Uist”
Small softback book about the dwellings and way of life in the Outer Hebrides spanning 5000 years, based upon archaeological work in North Uist by Robert Lenfert.
2012.65.3
Book “Materials and Traditions in Scottish Buildings”, 1992
Softback book about building traditions in Scotland. Includes section on Tiree`s thatched houses with photographs (pp 81-94).
2012.16.3
Photograph of a group of adults in a barn (possibly a wedding party) around 1900
Black & white photograph of a group of 27 adults in formal dress, including a fiddler, in a barn around 1900. Possibly a wedding reception. Back row, from left: 4th Johnnie MacKinnon, 7th-10th Maggie MacKinnon, Charlie MacKinnon, Iain MacKinnon, Roderick MacDonald. Middle row, from left: 1st & 2nd Annie MacIntyre and Maggie MacKinnon, 4th Hugh MacIntyre. Front, from left: 1st fiddler, 3rd Hugh Lamont, 5th John MacKinnon. (original stored in filing cabinet 9 drawer 4)
2012.16.1
Photograph of An Iodhlann in 2002
Colour photograph of the exterior of An Iodhlann with Duncan Grant`s car at the disabled access. Taken by an unknown visitor in summer 2002.
2012.2.6
Photograph of Hugh MacPhail`s shed at his post office/shop at Cornaigmore in 1972
Colour photograph of Hugh MacPhail`s shed at his post office/shop at Cornaigmore in the snow in March 1972.
2011.106.3
Photograph of the Galbraith croft house at Balevullin ca. 1890
Black & white photograph of (probably) the Galbraith thatched croft house at Balevullin in around 1890. James Galbraith (1821-1903) was born in Gigha, and came to Tiree from Rothiemurchus, near Aviemore, with his wife and children in 1874 to take up the position of School Master of the Parochial School at Balevullin. The Duke of Argyll displaced the MacLeod family off their croft to Kilmoluaig to make way for them. After James` death the family`s title to the croft at Balevullin was challenged by the Duke, despite one of James` daughters, Sarah (now living in Glasgow), continuing to pay the rent and her two sisters still living there. One sister, Mary Galbraith, married John MacDonald of Cornaigmore in 1907 and they continued to run the croft. However, after 10 years of pursuit, the Duke took the matter to Court and the croft was given up around 1913.
2011.103.5
Photograph of Alick & Donald MacArthur and Hugh MacKinnon thatching ca 1900
Sepia photograph of three men standing on top of a thatched house (probably Sandaig) whilst thatching: Alick MacArthur, Donald MacArthur and Hugh MacKinnon. Found in Flora MacArthur`s house (now demolished) at Sandaig 2010. Original in filing cabinet 9 drawer 3.
