Digitised copy of Account of sundry payments for making Tiree’s harbour, 1758. Contains a list of payments made by the Chamberlain of Tiree.
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From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
Digitised copy of Instructions for the chamberlain of Tiree, 1758. These instructions were sent from the Duke of Argyll and include: employing ditchers, cutting peat, building works at the Duke’s house in Tiree, payment of rents, building a harbour in Tiree.
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From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
Hardback book ‘Scottish Sail – a forgotten era’ by Robert Simper, 1974. A photographic account of Scottish sailing ships that travelled domestic and world trade routes at the turn of the 19th century. The topsail schooner Mary Stewart is mentioned on page 35. The remains of her hull can still be seen in Scarinish Harbour.
Colour photo postcard of Scarinish harbour in around 1960 with the hotel in the background and the remains of the Mary Stewart and another boat on the right. Made in Inverness.
Black & white postcard made up of five small images of Baugh and a cow, Tiree and of the castles and a rock on Ben Hough, Coll. Probably made by Mona MacDonald in around 1940 for her shop in Scarinish.
Digitised copy of a map of Tiree showing townships and numbers of tenants in 1848. The map appears to show all townships, but not all have tenant numbers attached. Geographical features are also named (bays, lochs, harbours, moss, ‘the reef or great green plan’).
From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
Black & white photograph of Hynish pier and dry dock in around 1900.
Colour postcard photograph of spectators watching a swimming race in Scarinish Harbour during a Tiree Regatta in around 1990.
Iron hand-hook used for grabbing and lifting bags of grain when transferring them from the ship’s hold to the winching cradle in Scarinish Harbour.
Colour photograph of the traditional sailing boat An Sulaire passing through Scarinish Harbour during a visit to Tiree from Barra in 1998.
Various teams crewed An Sulaire over the years, but on this occasion the crew was Kenny Morrison, Skipper, Stornoway; Angus Brendan Macneil, Barra; Elizabeth MacInnes, Barra; Alan Maclean, Mull; David Wilson, Glasgow; Melissa Macleod, New Zealand.
