Photocopied newspaper article and letter about the seizure of Greenhill by Tiree crofters, 1886
Newspaper article about the seizure of Greenhill by Tiree crofters and the arrival of the Royal Marines on board HMS Ajax in Oban, and letter to the editor from the Duke of Argyll disagreeing with point of view put by D. H. MacFarlane.
Photocopied newspaper article correcting an error in a letter to the editor from D. H. MacFarlane dated 6/8/1886.
Correction to letter from D. H. MacFarlane which should have read `six tenants paying over £2,600 and one over £1,200`.
Digital photograph of Lachie MacLean, Druimfhraoich.
Lachie MacLean, Druimfhraoich, Kenovay, sowing seed using a `bascaid churachd` in 2000 or 01.
Rescue involving the crew of the ‘Duchess’
Transcription of a letter of 1868 from the Tiree factor John Geekie about a rescue involving the crew of the ‘Duchess’.
Courtesy of His Grace the Duke of Argyll
In a letter of 1868 to the 8th Duke of Argyll, his factor John Geekie commended eight Tiree men who had rescued three fishermen from drowning in Balephuil Bay during a gale. Two of the men were crew of the ‘Duchess’, built by the Duke in 1860 and let out to local men.
In May 1861 the factor had reported that ‘the crew of the Duchess fishing boat had a very good fishing…once they took courage and went out where the Tyree boats were fishing outside the light house’, the implication being that the crew were unnecessarily timid.
Their reluctance is easily explained by their lack of familiarity handling a vessel nearly twice the length of the average Tiree fishing boat and also by the dangers of fishing five or more miles from shore in a small sailing boat in the days before reliable weather forecasting and global positioning.
Poster `Croitearachd`.
Poster about crofting illustrated with black and white drawings of hand implements.
Autographed speech by Ronnie MacDonald given at Tur Mhic Chaluim on 26/7/1986.
Autographed speech by Ronnie MacDonald given at Tur Mhic Chaluim on 26/7/1986.
Black and white photograph of Sandy MacArthur, Charles and Malcolm Brown, all of Balephuil.
L-R: John Brown, Malcolm Brown and Sandy MacArthur, all from Balephuil.
Black and white photograph of Hector MacNeill and Charles Brown.
L-R: Hector MacNeill and Charles Brown (Tearlaich Chaluim) from Balephuil.
Black and white photograph of Donald MacCallum of Scarinish.
Donald MacCallum of Scarinish.
Photograph of Arcie MacLean, Cornaigmore.
Black & white photograph of Archie MacLean, Cornaigmore, (father of Teon Domhnall) and an unknown boy with a calf at Cornaigmore.
