Article in the Scots Magazine by Peter Myres recalling his maritime adventures around Tiree in 2009. Titled ‘Boat Daft on Tiree’ he writes about the ferries and puffers and a trip to Coll. Includes colour photographs of Travee from Balephuil, the ferry Claymore in 1962, hoisting a old Alvis car from the Claymore, the puffer Lascar, and Sheena Beck, Ruaig, with her children Drew, Robin and Margaret in 1962. Pages 408-412.
Hardback book ‘From Clan to Regiment – six hundred years in the Hebrides 1400-2000’ by Nicholas MacLean-Bristol, 2007. A history of the MacLeans of Coll by one of their descendents. Signed by the author to Gordon Scott, Tiree, 2012.
Printed copies of the Beveridge Diaries 1896-1897: (1) scanned directly from Erskine Beveridge’s notebooks held in the Carnegie Library in Dunfermline, and (2) typed transcripts made by Lesley Ferguson, Head of Collections, RCAHMS. Beveridge travelled around Scotland in the second half of the 19th century, photographing and writing about the places he visited, including Tiree.
Handwritten letter from Pat Holyer (Petrie), former owner of the Scarinish Hotel during the 1970s, to Dr John Holliday, An Iodhlann, on 18/1/2015. He writes about some enclosed photographs and newspaper cuttings from the 1970s (see 2015.11.1 to 8), and conditions at Coll and Scarinish.
Newspaper cutting of a biography of Guy W Jardine, piermaster and owner of the Coll Hotel in the 1970s. Includes photo. (original stored in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1)
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Colour photograph of John Allen Cameron, skipper of the Coll ferry boat, taking passengers between the ferry and the pier in the 1970s. (original stored in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1)
Photograph of a seaplane at Coll, 1932
Black & white photograph of a Supermarine Southampton seaplane or `flying boat` at Arinagour, Coll, in 1932. Four of these planes were used to help the Scottish fishing fleet locate herring, and occasionally for emergency medical aid in the islands (see 2015.5.2).
Two newspaper articles about seaplanes, 1932
Digital copies of two newspaper articles from the Edinburgh Evening News, 6th and 18th June 1932, regarding the use of Supermarine Southampton seaplanes to locate herring shoals for the Scottish fishing fleet, and to transport a doctor to the Island of Coll in a medical emergency.
Photograph of a wedding party on Coll, in the late 1960s
Black & white photograph of a wedding party being led along the pier road on Coll by piper Robert Beck, in the late 1960s. Photographed by Geoffrey Cole, Oban. Formerly mounted with a 1970 calendar insert. (Original photograph and mount/calendar stored in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1).
Photograph of a cow being loaded onto the ferry, 1930s
Black & white photograph of a cow being hoisted by winch onto the deck of the Claymore ferry at Coll during the 1930s.
