Photocopied photographs of a brooch found in a Viking burial site near Cornaigbeg.
This bronze ‘tortoise’ brooch was found with a bronze brooch-pin in a Viking burial site near Cornaigbeg some time before 1872, and was donated to the Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of Scotland. The exact location of the grave is no longer known.
Black and white photograph of Flora MacDonald with a group of girls outside Melness in 1954.
Melness, Cornaigbeg in summer 1954. L-R: Donald Campbell, Kenovay; Euphemia (Fay) MacKinnon, Cornaigbeg; Mary Brown, Balevullin; Pearl Brown, Mary`s sister; Flora MacDonald nee MacLachlan, head teacher at Cornaigmore School; Mairi MacKinnon, Fay`s sister, married Bill MacFarlane the dentist; Rena Campbell, Donalda`s sister.
Photograph of Grace Baxter’s wedding party leaving Cornaig Church in the 1940s.
Courtesy of Mrs Mairi Campbell
The wedding party of Grace Baxter on their way back to Corrairigh, after the marriage ceremony which was held at Cornaig Church. The party are being led by local piper Malcolm MacLean (Calum Salum). This picture was taken around 1943.
Black and white photograph of Grace Baxter`s wedding at Cornaig.
Grace Baxter`s wedding party on the way back from Cornaig church to Corrairigh, Cornaigbeg, with Malcolm MacLean (Calum Salum) piping, taken around 1943. (Original in Filing Cabinet 8 Drawer 1)