Colour photograph of a cow carcass hanging in the butcher’s shop in Scarinish in 1995.
Tag Archives: butchers
2019.88.2
2019.88.1
2018.107.2
Handmade, pig-iron meat cleaver for cutting up sheep. Made in Vaul.
2017.27.1
DVD compilation of sections of old films about Tiree, made in 2016 from videos held in An Iodhlann amongst others. Includes footage of: ferries, the Mary Stewart, Scarinish harbour, Scarinish Hotel, the ringing stone, Nester and Gavin Carter’s bakery and bread making, school bus driven by butcher Donald MacLean, The Reef, livestock health, Balephetrish, Mannal, Balemartine, Baugh, Tiree High School, children singing a traditional Gaelic hunting song, accordion music and several accordionists, Gaelic songs sung by locals at a ceilidh, thatched houses and thatching with Hector Brown, Alexander MacNeill’s opinions on thatched houses (1985), Am Bail Ur in Balephuil, Iain MacKinnon talking in Gaelic and English in his house at Kilmoluaig, Hynish harbour and buildings, harvesting and stooks, Cornaig mill, livestock sales, airport, bands, Balevullin, An Iodhlann, Tiree Music Festival, Travee, aerial view of a seal swimming, bicycles, schoolyard games, sheep shearing, Gott Bay pier, cattle, pipe music, shops, ships, Vaul, timelapse film of the sky as the sun sets and rises, young Eilidh Campbell and her brother talk in Gaelic about life on Tiree. Other people include: Ann Carter, Douglas Carter, Sinclair Carter, Olwen Carter, Monica Smith (nee Davis), Neil MacPhail, Angus MacPhail, Mairi Campbell, Bernard Smith, Iain MacDonald, Iain Brown, Iain MacLean, Myra Brown, Hector Campbell, Alex MacArthur, Gordon Connell.
2014.93.2
2013.82.19
Notice from the Edinburgh Gazette 1927 regarding changes to the powers of the Gott Bay Pier Trustees
Printed transcript of a notice from the Edinburgh Gazette 1927 regarding changes to the powers of the Gott Bay Pier Board of Trustees to set levys and rates for ballast, water etc. Trustees named: Hugh MacDiarmid, Island House, Rev Kenneth MacKay, Gott, Colin Brown, Scarinish, Malcolm MacLean, Kirkapol, Donald MacArthur, Scarinish, Malcom MacKinnon, Scarinish, William George MacDiamid, Island House, Dr Thomas Wyper Stewart, Easdale.
2013.12.1
Booklet `Milkit Four Times in the Day` 2012
Booklet about the history of agriculture on Tiree, with reference to livestock, sales, cattle shows, vets, animal health, butchers, hens, potatoes, bulbs, seaweed and Gaelic words. Researched by Dr John Holliday for a summer exhibition at An Iodhlann.