Colour photograph of burnt fishing boats at Milton taken in April 2004.
The remains of two fishing boats destroyed by a fire at Milton harbour on 20/3/2004 photographed by Dr John Holliday in April 2004.
2004.70.9
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2004.48.1
Video `Man of Aran`.
Classic black and white documentary about the day-today existence and constant fight for survival of fisherman in the remote coastal island of Aran off the west of Ireland.
1999.317.1
Paperback book `The Great Highland Famine` by T. M. Devine.
A detailed account of the clearances of the 19th century, landlordism, crofting life, emigration and migration.
1997.274.12
Paperback book `Crofting Years` by Francis Thompson.
The social history of crofting in the Highlands and Islands.
2000.206.1
Audio cassette recording of Margaret Green of Mannal talking to Maggie Campbell in 2000.
Margaret Green of Mannal talks to Maggie Campbell in 2000 about her childhood holidays in Mannal and playing with the other children on the shore, the people who lived in Mannal, the fishing boats and sharing the catch, fishing for sea-bream in June, her blind great-grandfather whose house was set on fire during the Clearances, a story about the curse put on the factor of the time, visiting relatives and friends, and returning to Glasgow laden with parcels of eggs, butter, cheese, potatoes and sometimes a chicken.
1997.272.8
Paperback book `Highland Folk Ways` by I. F. Grant.
The sequences of adjustment that have taken place in the lives of Scottish Highland people in response to great social and economic pressures and the tenacity with which the influence of the ancient and distinctive social organisation of the Highlands has persisted. For references to Tiree see pages 16 and 106.
1999.303.8
Hardback book `The Basking Shark in Scotland` by Denis Fairfax.
A history of the fishery and the anatomy and biology of the basking shark.
De-accessioned 20.3.2026.
2000.67.2
Audio cassette recording of a ceilidh with Angus and Nella Munn, Neil and Vivienne Johnston and Dr John Holliday in 2000.
Angus Munn and Neil Johnston talk about electrician and builder Angus MacRae who was the first man to install TVs in Tiree and had a shop in Baugh, the inebriate MacEwan who was a professional golfer, the 18-hole golf course in Scarinish, the crofts in Heanish, Angus’s relations in Heanish, Captain MacKinnon’s relationship to the Nisbets, John Munn and his shop and horse-drawn van, the puffer Mary & Effie unloading at Port a’ Mhuilinn and the fishing boats that used to sail from this harbour.
2000.185.4
Paperback book `Never broken in a sea` edited by Mary Norton.
The story of the Grimsay work boats as told to the editor by the present Stewart builders, Grimsay fishermen and people throughout the Uists.
2000.50.9
Paperback book `The Great Highland Famine` by T. M. Devine.
A detailed account of the clearances of the 19th century, landlordism, crofting life, emigration and migration.