Magazine `The Scots Magazine`, March 1988.
Article about the construction and preservation of thatched houses on Tiree, illustrated with colour photographs.
2002.133.13
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1997.130.10
Photocopied information about thatched house on Tiree.
Photocopied photos of Tiree thatched houses and ground plans.
1997.138.1
Photocopied extract from `Outer Isles` by Ada Goodrich Freer, pp 1-61.
Account of a visit to Tiree in 1894.
1997.116.1
Photocopied magazine article `The Friends of the Thatched Houses by Douglas P Willis.
Article about the construction and preservation of thatched houses on Tiree.
2002.114.8
Copy of newspaper article about thatched houses on Tiree.
Article about the thatched houses on Tiree with a photgraph.
2002.111.7
Newspaper advertisement for sale of `Tighport na Spaineach` in Milton.
Description of `Tighport na Spaineach` in Milton offered for sale at £90,000.
2002.105.1
Audio cassette recording of Katina MacDonald interviewed by Maggie Campbell at Tigh a` Rudha on 23/5/2002.
Maggie Campbell talks to Katina MacDonald in May 2002 about her childhood days in Balephuil, the way of life in the 1920s, church-going and baptisms, the shops, the healing powers of Dòmhnall Chaluim Bhain, the well in Balephuil Tobair Mhoire, songs and the poet Alasdair Sinclair (Alasdair Nèill Og), thatching and cleaning methods. Tha Magaidh Chaimbeul a’ bruidhinn ri Katina Nic Dhòmhnaill ’s a’ Cheitean 2002 mu làithean a h-òige ann am Baile Phuill; an dòigh beatha ’s na 1920an; an eaglais agus na baistidhean; na bùthan; comas-leigheis Dhòmhnaill Chaluim Bhàin; Tobar Mhòire ann am Baile Phuill; òrain agus am bard Alasdair Nèill Òig; an tughadh agus dòighean glanaidh.
2002.89.1
Photocopy of paper found in Salum House wrapped around a coin.
Message written on paper and wrapped around a coin then put in the foundations at the four corners for good luck. (Found by Biily Hayes in Salum House.)
2000.10.2
Book `George Washington Wilson in the Hebrides` by Donald MacAulay.
Photographs dating from c. 1870 to 1908 portraying the Hebrides through landscape, ships, buildings, people and their activities. Detailed commentary explaining building features, activities, clothes etc
De-accessioned 1.3.2026.
2002.56.19
Black and white photograph of the Cameron family house in Scarinish.
The Cameron family house in Scarinish, probably photographed in the 1930s.
