From a collection of photographs relating to Balephuil.
2024.20.8
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2022.17.2
Black & white photoprint of a scanned postcard of a horse and cart on the beach at Gott Bay in around 1920. Titled ‘”Silversands” Tiree’.
2021.53.55
Digitised copy of Instructions for the chamberlain of Tiree, 1771. These instructions were sent from the Duke of Argyll and include: rents; over population of Tiree; establishing a fishing village; present system of husbandry including runrigs, introducing wheeled carriages, sand blowing, cutting bent, pulling barley, gredden, distilleries, introducing flax and hemp; mills; the minister’s Glebe; taking bear [barley] in payments of rent; draining lochs; roads in Tiree; selling of wood. There is no transcript available for this item.
Click to view a record for this item on Inveraray’s online catalogue.
From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
2019.33.11
Black & white photograph of a horse harnessed to a hay turner at Clachan in the 1930s.
2019.33.10
Black & white photograph of four (unidentified) men haymaking at Clachan in the 1930s.
2018.72.1
Ornate brass horse buckle found in a stream in Kirkapol (grid ref. NM 04351 47358) by John Wombell of NOSAS. It appears to have been coated with silver, suggesting that it may have belonged to Lady Victoria Campbell who kept a horse-drawn carriage at Kirkapol when she stayed in Tiree around 1910.
2018.54.24
Colour photograph of a demonstration of ploughing using Clydesdale horses at an Agricultural Show in 1999. Those identified include Roddy MacKay (filming), Donald MacIntyre, Angus MacLean.
2018.54.23
Colour photograph of a demonstration of horse-drawn ploughing at the Agricultural Show in 1999. Among those identified are John Alec MacDonald, Rena MacKinnon, Lachie MacKinnon, Donald MacIntyre, Angus MacLean, Neil MacArthur, Julie Worsley, Lachie MacFadyen, Roddy MacKay.
2017.54.8
Coloured photograph of ‘Ploughing at Balevullin, Tiree’’, 1941-43, taken by archaeologist George Holleyman FSA when he was stationed at RAF Tiree during WWII. Scanned from one of his hand-coloured glass lantern slides now held at An Iodhlann (see 2017.54.4).
2016.56.8
Three large brass buckles from a horse-harness, one on a section of leather strap. From Kirkapol Farm.
