Video recording BB2 programme about Tiree houses broadcast in November 2003.
BBC2 programme in Gaelic with English subtitles about buildings in Tiree – An Turas, thatched and felt roofed houses, the old steading at the Glebe, nissen huts and the Scarinish lighthouse – featuring Mabel MacArthur of Sandaig, Flora MacPhail in Balevullin, Wilie MacLean of Balinoe, Cathy MacNeill and John George Maclean of Scarinish and John Fletcher of Balemartine.
Black and white photograph of a thatched house at Ruaig.
Taigh na Buaile, halfway between Brock and Cala na Sithe, Ruaig, where the great-grandmother of Anneen Black (nighean Mor Lachainn Iain) lived, probably photographed around 1930.
Photocopied extracts from the County of Argyll Third Annual Report by the Medical Officer of Health Dr Roger MacNeill, pp 32-35, 82-83,92-99.
Description of the housing in Tiree, an outbreak of measles,typhoid fever and one case of smallpox as reported by Dr Buchanan.
Photocopied extracts from the County of Argyll Sixth Annual Report by the Medical Officer of Health Dr Roger MacNeill, pp 44-45.
Report by Dr Buchanan about the improvement in housing in Tiree, especially cottars` housing.
Photocopied extracts from the County of Argyll Twenty-fourth Annual Report by the Medical Officer of Health Dr Roger MacNeill, pp 44-45, 58-59.
Report by Dr Dan MacKinnon on the state of the fever hospital in Heanish and the need for more detailed specifications for building houses to ensure adequate ventilation, lighting and sanitation.
Nine lead washers.
Nine lead washers found in the Reading Room by Robert Gray before the building was renovated.
Black and white photograph of Fionghala in the doorway of her thatched house in Balemartine.
Mòr Fionghala in the doorway of her thatched house in Balemartine.
Black and white photograph of Fionghala`s daughter at the family house in Balemartine.
Mòr Fionghala’s house in Balemartine. William Gray, Mòr’s nephew and the grandson of Donald MacFarlane, Taigh na Mara, Balemartine, put on the third tarred roof ‘in memory of his people’.
Black and white photograph of Morven House (Drovers) in Barrapol.
Thatching Morven House (Drovers) in Barrapol. L-R: Alasdair Campbell, John MacKinnon and his son Donald the Plumber.
Black and white photograph of the Hamiltons` old house in Barrapol in 1923.
View of the Hamiltons` old house in Barrapol looking towards Heylipol taken in 1923.
