Box containing 110 photographic slides taken by Alex MacLeod of Hough in the 1970s. Includes people of Hough, Scarinish Harbour, archaeological sites, houses in Hough, Coop van and GPO van, plane, agriculture, Cattle Show and landscapes. Also one of the Coll boat that met the steamer. Some printed and accessioned separately.
Ordnance Survey map sheet LXIII.12 & 16.
Map of Craiginnis point at a scale of 25 inches to the mile (1:2,500).
Black and white photograph of Andrew MacLeod at the Hough radio station.
Andrew MacLeod at the Hough radio station around 1960. Andrew was the son of John MacLeod, a Communication Officer with Ministry of Civil Aviation, who came to Tiree in 1947 or 1948.
Communication Officer John MacLeod
Photograph of John MacLeod at the radio station on Ben Hough in the late 1950s.
Courtesy of Mr Andrew MacLeod
A Communication Officer with Ministry of Civil Aviation, John MacLeod came to Tiree in the late 1940s. Initially he was based in the wartime Control Tower at the airport but subsequently relocated to a building at the top of Ben Hough.
The purpose of the station was to provide radio communications and position fixing services to aircraft flying over the West of Scotland and the Hebrides. In those days air to ground communications were by Morse code and all aircraft carried a radio officer.
If there was an ambulance flight to Tiree or one of the other islands, John would be called out, even in the middle of the night, and would have to climb the steps to the top of Ben Hough, in darkness and often rain and gales.
Black and white photograph of Communications Officer John MacLeod at the Hough radio station.
John MacLeod at the radio station at the top of Ben Hough in the late 1950s. A Communication Officer with Ministry of Civil Aviation, John came to Tiree in 1947 or 1948. The station provided radio communications and position fixing services to aircraft flying over the West of Scotland and the Hebrides.
Print of watercolour by Robert Bruce Webster, 1892-1959.
Print of a watercolour of the red rocks at Traigh Thorasdail painted in the 1920s by Robert Bruce Webster, 1892-1959.
E-mail about the wreck of the Artuoise off Craiginnis in 1830.
E-mail about the schooner Artuoise wrecked off Craiginnis in 1830 with details of a monumental inscription to the captain Owen Williams in a graveyard near Cardigan, West Wales. The crew of the Artuoise are buried near Dun Hanais behind Ben Hough.
Copy of 1985 proposed Nature Conservancy Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Tiree.
Map of proposed Nature Conservancy Sites of Special Scientific Interest at Hough, Balevullin and Cornaig with a list of operations likely to damage the features of special interest, dated 1985. (From the papers of the late Sandy MacKinnon, Crossapol.)
Black and white photograph of John MacDonald of Burnside, Mannal and Neil MacLean of Hough with a catch of cod in the late 1960s.
Once plentiful on the fishing banks to the north and west of the island, cod and ling were fished commercially in the 19th century using long lines. In the 20th century only the local fishermen still went out to the banks for white fish for which there was a ready market on the island. They used bottom lines for cod, mid-water lines for smaller saithe and mackerel and small lines for flat fish.
Cod were fished using hand lines (‘beairt’) with two to six hooks on each baited with limpets (‘maorach’) or lugworms dug from the beach. Fishing line used to be made from horse hair either by spinning or plaiting it. It was still being made on Tiree in the 1940s.
Courtesy of Mrs Johann MacArthur
Black and white group photograph taken outside Hough House in the 1950s.
Outside Hough House in the 1950s. L-R: Neil MacTaggart, husband of Jessie MacLean and brother-in-law of Peigi Campbell, Hough; Christine MacBride nee MacKinnon from Moss; Alec MacLean, uncle of Archie Brown, Kilkenneth; Archie MacLean, brother of Peigi Campbell.
Report by Katinka Stentoft titled `Tiree Prospective Settlement Survey`.
Results of a walkover survey of the machair areas of noth-west Tiree in September 2003 with the purpose of locating possible settlement sites of Viking or Late Norse date.
