Black and white postcard of a painting of Baugh and Heanish pre-1908.
Postcard painting of Baugh and Heanish; original date-stamped 2/7/1908.
1998.130.4
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2003.152.6
The Fever Hospital at Heanish
Photograph of the Fever Hospital at Heanish.
Courtesy of Mr Alasdair MacArthur
From the middle of the nineteenth century, Sanitary Laws were applied on Tiree to keep the island clean and infected patients were isolated. In 1892 the Sanitary Inspector visited the island and cautioned “several parties in regard to dung heaps in my opinion too near to houses”.
In 1893 three people died from typhoid which affected Balephuil. In 1895 an epidemic of scarlet fever swept through Tiree. The County Medical Officer, Dr. McNeill, had recommended the building of an isolation hospital on the island in 1893 and in 1905 the Fever Hospital was built in Heanish.
Made of corrugated iron lined with wood, it comprised two-bedded wards set at each end of the building with a kitchen, nurse’s room and bathroom in the centre. Outside was a washhouse, mortuary, disinfecting room and coalhouse. It was last used in the 1940s and sold in the 1960s as a private house.
Black and white postcard of Heanish machair and old the Fever Hospital.
Heanish machair and old the Fever Hospital. (Original postcard in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer 2)
2000.136.3
Photocopied newspaper article about the Great Tea Race from China to London.
The Great Tea Race from China to London won by the `Taeping` captained by Donald MacKinnon of Heanish.
2000.136.4
Photocopied newspaper article about the Great Tea Race from China to London.
The Great Tea Race from China to London won by the `Taeping` captained by Donald MacKinnon of Heanish.
2000.131.1
Three floppy disks with Gaelic place-names in Tiree townships.
Gaelic place-names in the Tiree townships.
2003.125.2
Audio recording of Angus Munn interviewed by Dr John Holliday in Heanish on 23/6/2003.
Audio cassette recording of Angus Munn interviewed by Dr John Holliday in Heanish on 23/6/2003. (awaiting further info.)
2000.59.12
Family tree for Lachlan MacKinnon and his wife Catherine MacIntyre and a photograph of a gravestone in Tiverton cemetery, Ontario.
Family tree for Lachlan MacKinnon (c.1800-1868) of Heanish and Kirkapol and his wife Catherine MacIntyre and a photograph of their son Alexander Charles` gravestone in Tiverton cemetery, Ontario.
1998.182.7
Photocopied page of newspaper cuttings about the clippers `Taeping`, `Ariel` and `Serica`, and the China Tea Race of 1866.
(1) Letter to the editor of the Glasgow Herald, 1963, by Donald B MacCulloch of Glasgow, about the cause of death of the Taeping`s captain, Donald MacKinnon, and other information about his family. Letter to the editor of the Glasgow Herald by John Graham of Troon with extracts from the logs of the `Taeping`, `Ariel` and `Serica`, and other information about the tea clippers. (2) Article in the Glasgow Herald, 1963, about about The Great China Tea Clipper Race of 1866 won by Captain Donald MacKinnon of Heanish. (3) Oban Times article of 13/5/1965 about the China Clipper Race of 1886 by Neil Brown.
2003.60.3
2004 Tiree calendar by Sue Anderson.
2004 Tiree calendar by Sue Anderson with recipes and postcards with views of Kenavara, Scarinish, Heanish, Caoles, Crossapol, Balevullin, Kenovay and Kilkenneth.
1998.170.13
Photocopied petition (undated) to the County Clerk from a group of Tiree residents.
Undated petition to Argyll County Council from a group of residents of Scarinish, Heanish and Baugh, all wanting to rent land under the Small Holdings Scotland Act of 1892.