Black & white photograph of Main Road house, Balephuil, home of the Sinclair family, around 1960.
2016.53.3
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2016.33.2
Bound booklet of transcribed excerpts regarding Tiree from the Autobiography and Memoirs of George Douglas, 8th Duke of Argyll (1823-1900).
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2016.29.1
Scanned copy of a ‘Permit to Enter a Protected Area’ issued by the Military Permit Office, Edinburgh, in 1942, belonging to Hugh McColl who came to Tiree to work on the construction of buildings on the RAF airfield during World War 2.
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Hugh McColl worked for The Glasgow Steel Roofing Company and was responsible for bringing men and materials over to construct the buildings on the airfield for the RAF. His work had it’s challenges, including battling with the weather right through the summer of 1942. The men were only paid when they worked, and he recorded on the time sheets for August that their hours varied because “… some men refused to work at times owing to the weather…”. They worked on Tiree from June to October.
Hugh appeared to enjoyed himself more than the men. He stayed with the Omand family at Balemartine School House and recalls having a great time fishing, harvesting and calling at the airport picture house, which was in a Nissen hut.
2016.14.1
University assignment ‘The Isle of Tiree: One of a Kind’ written in 2013 by Leanne Piper, University of Guelph, Canada, who is descended from emmigrants John MacKinnon (1816-1896) and Grace Campbell (b.1811), Cornaigbeg. Includes information on geography, crofting history, geology, the kelp industry and architecture.
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2015.53.3
Photocopied extract from handwritten ledgers containing the Minutes of the Presbytery of Mull, 27 January 1842 to 2 December 1845, pertaining to the planning, funding and building of the churches at Kirkapol and Heylipol.
2015.53.2
Photocopied extract from handwritten ledgers containing the Minutes of the Presbytery of Mull, 12 December 1839 to 25 November 1841, pertaining to the planning, funding and building of the churches at Kirkapol and Heylipol.
2015.40.15
Black & white postcard portrait photograph of a family outside the Meeting House in Balephuil around the 1930s. From a collection of photographs from Mannal House.
2015.8.1
Photograph of the Munn house at Baugh, ca 1930
Black & white postcard photograph of the Munn house in Baugh around 1930. (original stored in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1)
2015.8.2
Photograph of the Munn house at Baugh, ca 1940
Black & white postcard photograph of the Munn house at Baugh around 1940. Note that the section on the left has been extended upwards since the previous photo V148. (original stored in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1)
2015.1.2
Detailed and accurate scale model of `Cnoc` house at Ruaig, hand-made around the 1980s by Tiree vet and piping tutor Robert Beck who lived there until 2014.
