Photograph of tangles drying at Craignis in 1997-98
Colour photograph of tangles (long straight stalks of kelp seaweed) laid over a completed drying rack made of oil drums, wooden posts and fishing net, on the shore at Craignis, Hough, in 1997-98.
Photograph of two bales of tangles on the shore at Craignis in 1974(?)
Colour photograph of two bales of tangles (stalks of kelp seaweed) tide with ropes on the shore at Craignis, Hough, ready for collection and transport by tractor and trailer, possibly in 1974.
Photograph of a tractor and trailer load of tangles at Balevullin in 2000
Photograph of a load of tangles (kelp stalks) that has been transported from Craignis, Hough, to Neil MacKinnon`s croft at Balevullin in 2000.
Recollections of the wrecking of the SS Laristan in 1942
Typed recollections of Alice Atkins (Ian Atkins` mother) regarding the shipwreck of the SS Laristan at Hough on January 19th 1942.
Audio recording of Janette Cameron reading a Gaelic translation of Alice Atkins` recollections of the shipwreck of the SS Laristan in 1942.
Janette Cameron reading a Gaelic translation of Alice Atkins` recollections of the shipwreck of the SS Laristan at Hough in 1942. Janette (daughter of Murdoch & Eilidh Cameron) later performed the reading at the 2000 Mod. Poor quality recording, not digitised.
Menu for Christmas dinner at RAF Station, Ben Hough in 1943
Colour photocopy of front and back of a menu for Christmas dinner at the RAF Station at Ben Hough in 1943, autographed by 33 personnel. Found in the papers of Chrissie Blackcroft and given to Flora Druimfraoich by Susan Lamont, Cornaig.
Photograph of a view of houses and Ben Hough (from Middleton/Barrapol?) ca 1960.
Black & white photograph of a view of two croft houses and a thatched house around 1960, with Beinn Hough in the background. Taken through a car window on an unmetalled road possibly around Middleton or Barrapol.
Newspaper article, 1986, “Of seers, witches and ghosts” about 19th century seer John MacLean
Original and photocopy of a newspaper article by Niall M. Brownlie, Barrapol, about John MacLean, Ruaig & Hough, a well known 19th century `seer` of the future who foresaw the first and second world wars, the arrival of the RAF on Tiree, the division of farms into crofts and the disappearance of townships behind Ben Hough (which were buried by wind-blown sand?).
Booklet “First Footsteps – searching for prehistoric hunter-gatherers in the Hebrides”
Booklet “First Footsteps – searching for prehistoric hunter-gatherers in the Hebrides” summarising the archaeological findings of Prof. Steven Mithen and colleagues from the University of Reading during their surveys of Tiree, Coll, Gunna, Mull, Colonsay & Oronsay and Islay during 2006. Includes a letter from Steven Mithen to Dr John Holliday (02/04/08) and a copy of a research note about his work at Fiskary Bay, Coll, published in Scottish Archarological News.
Text about archaeological sites on Tiree
Photocopy of text describing archaeological sites on Tiree: (1) Inner Hebrides Archaeological Project – Hough, Tiree by Darko Maricevic, (2) 8 Kilkenneth, Tiree by Clare Ellis, (3) Kilkenneth Chapel, Tiree by Susan Ovenden.
