Tag Archives: hens

2015.40.4

Collection of 29 black & white photographs and postcards retrieved from Mannal House featuring members of the MacDonald family, Catherine Campbell, Annie Campbell, Private H MacDonald, and their relations, around 1900-1930s. Some of these photos are catalogued individually (2015.40.6 – 2015.40.23).

2013.133.1

Photograph of two girls at Crossapol Farm in 1953.

Black & white photograph of sisters Elizabeth Macmillan and Catherine Macmillan, Clydebank, feeding hens at the Paterson`s house at Crossapol Farm in 1953. Mairi Campbell, Corrairigh, is standing at the door in the background. They were visiting with their father, Willie Macmillan, who was installing water pipes. Macmillan and Paterson Ltd were a plumbing business in Clydebank. (original stored in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1)

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2013.36.1

The Kerol Stockowner`s Notebook 1924

Small orange/brown card covered notebook for the recording the use of `Kerol` products as stock remedies. Includes instructions for use, testimonials, calendar, advice regarding ailments, and pages for the stockperson`s own notes. Handwritten notes are by Colin MacPhail of Crossapol.

2013.36.1

2013.12.1

Booklet `Milkit Four Times in the Day` 2012

Booklet about the history of agriculture on Tiree, with reference to livestock, sales, cattle shows, vets, animal health, butchers, hens, potatoes, bulbs, seaweed and Gaelic words. Researched by Dr John Holliday for a summer exhibition at An Iodhlann.

2000.61.19

CD Pròiseact Thiriodh CD-SA1968-32.

Donald Sinclair (Dòmhnall Chaluim Bhàin) of Balephuil talks about poultry feed and flour, gives two proverbs, talks about women wrestling in Tiree, sings a song about the Campbells and MacLeans, talks about Hogmanay rhymes and traditions, sings ‘Calum Bàn’ and ‘Duain Callain’, talks about choosing a dog, about bards and sings two songs miscalling a Moss Bard and sings ‘Maighdeannan na h-Airigh’, talks about weaving patterns and dyeing, using hen dung for washing, sings a waulking song and a lullaby, talks bout using urine for waulking, washing, drying and finishing wool, barn dances, the words used during the process of turning wool to cloth, tailors and weavers.

2000.61.45

Mini-disk SA1968/32.

Donald Sinclair (Dòmhnall Chaluim Bhàin) of Balephuil talks about poultry feed and flour, gives two proverbs, talks about women wrestling in Tiree, sings a song about the Campbells and MacLeans, talks about Hogmanay rhymes and traditions, sings ‘Calum Bàn’ and ‘Duain Callain’, talks about choosing a dog, about bards and sings two songs miscalling a Moss Bard and sings ‘Maighdeannan na h-Airigh’, talks about weaving patterns and dyeing, using hen dung for washing, sings a waulking song and a lullaby, talks bout using urine for waulking, washing, drying and finishing wool, barn dances, the words used during the process of turning wool to cloth, tailors and weavers.

1997.246.1

Binder `The Island of Tiree 1941 – 1943` containing an account of George Holleyman’s time on Tiree, plus 123 related photographs.

Account by RAF policeman and amateur archaeologist George Holleyman FSA of his time on Tiree between September 1941 and June 1943. Includes seventy-five photographs taken on Tiree by George Holleyman between September 1941 and June 1943, and forty-eight black and white photographs/postcards taken by unknown photographer(s). George Holleyman carried out significant amounts of pioneering archaeological work in Sussex  during the first half of the 20th century along with Drs. Eliot and Cecil Curwen. He was made a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries  in 1949.

2003.111.3

Feeding hens at Vaul in the 1930s

Photograph of Catriona MacKinnon and Margaret Doig feeding hens at Vaul in the 1930s.

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Courtesy of Mrs Nan MacClounnan

Catriona MacKinnon of Rhum View and her niece Margaret Doig are pictured feeding hens in Vaul in the 1930s. Most crofters on Tiree kept poultry, mainly hens but also some ducks. Between the wars, these numbered in total over eight thousand birds.

Up to the 1950s Tiree exported large numbers of eggs to the mainland. Eggs were bought by the local shopkeepers from their customers at a rate of 6d a dozen in payment for groceries and shipped by cargo steamer in wooden boxes of thirty dozen direct to Glasgow.

Eggs were also sent privately by post in boxes of two dozen. The eggs were protected by inserts of corrugated cardboard but even so the corner eggs often arrived broken.

Black and white photograph of Margaret Doig and her Aunt Neen in the 1930s.

Margaret Doig and her Aunt Neen (Catriona MacKinnon, Rhum View) feeding hens in Vaul the 1930s.

1998.12.1

Account by George Holleyman of his life on Tiree 1941-43.

Account by amateur archaeologist George Holleyman of his time in the RAF Service Police on Tiree from September 1941 to June 1943