Photograph of Scarinish Harbour and pier building ca 1930
Sepia photograph from a postcard of Scarinish Harbour around 1930, showing the ship the Mary Stewart on the left and a smaller ship tied up loading kelp from horse-drawn carts. The harbour building/office/store, now gone, is on the right.
Photograph of Mr & Mrs MacKay and the Boyd family in 1960.
Black & white photograph of Nellie and John MacKay, with Winifred Boyd and her two sons Ailean and Iain, collecting tangles on Travee, Balephuil in 1960. John Morton Boyd probably took the photograph.
Photograph of Duncan MacKinnon, Balephuil, around 1980
Colour photograph of Duncan MacKinnon, Am Bail Ur, Balephuil, collecting tangles as West Hynish around 1980.
Pages from a photo album about tangle harvesting in 1996-2000
Colour photocopies of pages from Book 2 of an annotated photo album belonging to Neil MacKinnon, Balevullin, documenting his tangle harvesting activities during 1996-2000. Some photos are accessioned separately.
Photograph of a heap of dry tangles at Balevullin in 2000.
Colour photograph of a heap of dried tangles on Neil MacKinnon`s croft at Balevullin, ready for export to the mainland in 2000.
Photograph of tangle being weighed at Balevullin in 2000.
Colour photograph of tangles being weighed at Neil MacKinnon`s croft at Balevullin in July 2000, before being loaded onto lorries destined for the mainland.
Photograph of a tractor adapted for loading tangles in 2000
Colour photograph of a tractor at Neil MacKinnon`s croft at Balevullin in 2000, with its bucket replaced by two wooden palettes for loading dried tangles onto waiting lorries.
Photograph of loading dried tangles onto a lorry in 2000
Colour photograph of a specially adapted tractor loading dried tangles (kelp seaweed stalks) onto a waiting lorry at Neil MacKinnon`s croft at Balevullin in 2000.
Photograph of the old tangle store at Craignis, Hough, in 2000
Colour photograph of the ruins of Seada Haingeis, the old tangle store at Craignis, Hough, last used in 1800.
Photograph of a lorry loaded with tangles in 1976 (?)
Colour photograph of Alan Worsley`s lorry loaded up with dried tangles at Neil MacKinnon`s croft at Balevullin, possibly in 1976, ready for export to the mainland.
