Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 421, 19/7/08
Local news including forthcoming agricultural show; invasive seaweed on boats; school news and awards; cut in housing budget for Argyll & Bute; Tiree Experience bus tours; A&B local plans published; an `Interview with God`; high fuel prices; bumblebees.
Photograph of Hugh MacNeil (?) working outside Croft View, Balephuil, around 1950.
Black & white photograph of a man (possibly Hugh MacNeill) chopping up a wooden crate outside his house – Croft View – at Balephuil around 1950. From a collection of photographs from the house of Ellen Kennedy (nee Eilidh MacNeil), Balevullin.
Long, curved metal tongs `clobha` for gripping the base of a large pot on the fire.
Cast iron kettle
Large cast-iron kettle with lid for heating on a stove or over a fire. See also kettle stand 2013.181.8
Cast iron kettle stand
Cast-iron, circular, three-legged stand for placing a hot cast-iron kettle (see 2013.181.7).
Iron pan or skillett for hanging over open fire
Black-painted flat, iron cooking pan or skillet for hanging over the fire on a chain.
Stoneware hot water bottle
`Pige` stoneware hot water bottle with screw stopper.
Photograph of two women at the fireplace of Drover`s Cottage around 1922
Black & white photograph of two women of the MacKinnon family (Euphemia and Christina?) drinking tea in front of the fireplace at Drover`s Cottage in 1922. It was then known as Morven House.
Black and white photograph from a postcard showing an old woman working at the hearth in her home around 1950.
Composition about water, transport, heating and lighting in the Cornaig School building and grounds from the 1920s to 1970s. Written by Archie MacKinnon, Cornaigmore, who was the school janitor from 1952 to 1992.
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