Audio cassette recording of Grace Campbell, Tullymet, talking to Liz Lapsley.
Grace Campbell talks to Liz Lapsley about her family and childhood memories, her schooldays, her life as a teacher, the loss of her parents and the shop, Scarinish Hotel and licencing, her mother`s working day, the hardships of youth, the start of the W.R.I., tinkers, blacksmiths, joiners, funerals, the first cars on Tiree, the plane landing on Gott Bay shore, local events and traditions.
Tiree blacksmiths in the 20th century
Sound clip in English of retired vet Robert Beck talking about the blacksmiths on Tiree in the 20th century.
Courtesy of Mr Robert Beck
Retired veterinary surgeon Robert Beck talks about the number of blacksmiths on Tiree within living memory during a public talk on the subject of Scotland’s native horse given at the 1997 Feis Thiriodh. In 1945 there were over four hundred working horses on the island providing ample work for eight smiddies.
The Tiree Clydesdale was in great demand in the early 20th century especially for work in the towns. Derived from cross-breeding a superior type of native pony introduced to Tiree in the early 1800s with Clydesdales brought in by Tom Barr in the 1870s, they were tougher and faster than mainland-bred draught horses.
Many crofters kept one or two brood mares which were also worked. Three stallions, two Clydesdale and one Highland pony, ‘walked’ the island, kept by Hector Campbell of Cornaigmore, John MacLean of the Brae, Cornaigbeg and Donald MacIntyre of Gott.
Booklet titled `Isle of Tiree` edited by Mona MacDonald, with photocopy.
Guide to townships on Tiree, local advertising and map. Accession includes photocopy of same.
Colour photograph of Mary and Duncan MacPhail.
Mary MacPhail (married Roddy MacLennan) and her uncle John Neil MacPhail at the top of the pier in the 1960s.
Ordnance Survey map, sheet NM04NW, 1:10,000.
Map of Balephetrish, the Reef, Orisgal, Scarinish, Gott, Kirkapol and Vaul showing contour lines, roads and paths, boundaries, townships and buildings, bridges and cattle grids, rivers and drains, sites of antiquities, vegetation and rock features.
Copy of plan of the construction of Gott bay pier dated 1937.
Copy of original plan by G. Woulfe Brenan, Oban, of the construction of Gott Bay pier at a scale of 1:120 redrafted in 1937.
Blueprint of the ferro-concrete construction of Gott bay pier dated 1909.
Blueprint by L. C. Mouchel & Partners, Newcastle, of the ferro-concrete construction of Gott bay pier at a scale of 1:120 dated 1909.
Plan of the construction of Gott bay pier dated 1909.
Plan by G. Woulfe Brenan, Oban, of the construction of Gott Bay pier at a scale of 1:120 dated 1909.
Map of part of Tiree showing the mains water supply in 1977.
Map showing the continuation of Phase II of the Tiree Rural Water Supply for Cornaig, Balephetrish, Gott, Kirkapol, Scarinish, Baugh, the Reef, Crossapol, Kenovay, Kilmoluaig and Balevullin, at a scale of 1:56,000 dated 1977.
Ordnance Survey map sheet LXV.
Map of the eastern areas of Tiree from Baugh in the south to the Ringing Stone in the north, at a scale of 6 inches to the mile (1:10,560).
