Bridle for a cart horse
Two partial driving bridles used on cart horses used to form one complete set.
2013.98.1
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2013.69.1
Lantern bracket for postman`s cart
Black-painted iron bracket for the side of a cart to hold a lantern, similar to those used on a postman`s horse-drawn cart. Note the lead lining of the sleeve.
2013.65.1
Tiree Memories 2014 calendar by Alec Walker
Collection of colour and black & white photographs of old Tiree made into a calendar for 2014. Images include scything at Kilmoluaig, Balemartine PO in the early 1900s, Island House in 1924, drawing of Tug o` War in the late 1800s, Malcolm MacArthur at the reins of his grocers cart, Scarinish harbour 1900, Tiree Pipe Band 1977, Tug o` War 1979, milk delivered in old whisky bottles, coal puffer at Scarinish harbour, thatched house 1921, plane Britee-Norman Trislander 1979, ferry `Columba` in 1970s.
2013.10.1
Booklet `Horses of the Two Harvests` 2010
Booklet describing the importance of horses and horse-breeding, particularly before WWII. Researched by Dr John Holliday for a summer exhibition at An Iodhlann.
2012.118.1
Photograph of Mary Flora MacDonald with her new Clydesdale horse in 2012.
Colour photograph of Mary Flora MacDonald, Balemartine, with her grand-daughter Kara, in their trap being pulled by `Major` the Clydesdale horse on the Balephuil road in July 2012. Taken by Margie Brown, Salum. (oringinal stored in filing cabinet 9 drawer 3)
2012.15.5
Photograph of Iain MacKinnon, Kilmoluaig, holding a framed photograph of himself ploughing with horses
Colour photograph of Iain MacKinnon (Iain Chaluim Iain Bhan) holding a framed colour photograph outside his house `Cnoc Bhiosta`/Kilmoluaig House in the 1990s. The photograph is of himself as a younger man (ca. 1970) with his two-horse plough in a field nearby. It would take him three days to plough the field.
2012.15.6
Photograph of Iain MacKinnon, Kilmoluaig, with a horse-drawn plough ca. 1970
Colour photograph taken in 2011 of a close up of a framed photograph belonging to Iain MacKinnon (Iain Chaluim Iain Bhan) of Cnoc Bhiosta/Kilmoluaig House. The photograph shows Iain plouging with his two-horse plough at Kilmoluaig around 1970. It would take three days to complete.
2011.113.22
Photograph of cousins George and John MacFadyen, ca. 1940.
Black & white photograph of cousins George MacFadyen and John MacFadyen in a pony & trap around 1940. The trap belonged to John and was used for delivering mail and fish on Tiree.
2010.46.8
Photograph of horse and cart being driven along a road on Tiree, 1940s
Black & white photograph of a Clydesdale horse and cart being driven along a road on Tiree around 1945.
2010.1.1
Brass buckle from horse harness
Large square brass buckle from a plough horse`s harness from Kirkapol Farm. Tarnished green.
