Memoirs of Alistair MacNeill, Hynish, ‘They were our Vital Sparks’ which recall his fascination with the coal puffers that visited Hynish to off-load coal and other goods during the 1950s. The puffers also took away bundles of kelp for processing on the mainland.
Research paper ‘The catching of seabirds in northern and western Scotland and the Faroes – a summary of historical and contemporary survival’, by JR Baldwin, published in Northern Studies, 1973.
Black and white photograph of Effie and James MacLeish collecting whelks at Sandaig in the 1950s.
Effie and James MacLeish and Effie`s sister Margaret Russell are collecting whelks at Sandaig in the 1950s. Effie and Margaret were brought up in the southernmost cottage in Sandaig Terrace.
Articles about lobster fishing, the wreck of the Nevada, the coastguard on Coll, the potato famine, butterflies and moths, orchids and lichens, early travellers to Coll and other local news.