Comb-bound account of a lighthouse family.
An account of the donor`s family with genealogical information, includingWilliam Crowe who served over fourteen years on Skerryvore and John MacLean Campbell who was born on Tiree in 1861.
Photograph of Skerryvore lighthouse on a business calendar from Bernard D Smith..
Skerryvore lighthouse. (Original calendar in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer 4)
Copy of a postcard of the Hynish complex by Sue Anderson.
Postcard of the Hynish complex by Sue Anderson.
Photo from the Ross of Mull Historical Society 2005 calendar with a photo of quarryworkers` cottages at Camas.
The former quarry workers’ cottages at Camas in the Ross of Mull. Stone from the quarry was used to build the Skerryvore and Ardnamurchan lighthouses. (Calendar page for December 2005 in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer 3)
Copied extract from `Account of Skerryvore Lighthouse` by Alan Stevenson.
Plan of Skerryvore rocks at high and low tides, chart of the position of Skerryvore rocks in relation to Tiree surveyed in 1846 (2 pages) and plan of the Hynish complex showing the pier, dock, reservoir, lightkeepers` and seamen`s houses, etc. (2 pages).
Folder with typewritten account `The Buildings of Tiree` by Geoffrey Stell, ca 1970.
Typewritten account `The Buildings of Tiree` by Geoffrey Stell typed on paper from publishers Gee & Co of the Strand, London, plus an accompanying map of Tiree hand-drawn by Mary Robertson.
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Periodical `The Coll Magazine`, No. 13, 1995.
Articles about Skerryvore lighthouse, WWII, pigeons, RSPB, emigration and the `Brilliant`, a school trip, holiday-makers, fishing competitions, the Coll show, Project Trust and bees among others.
Audio cassette recording of Meena Knapman of Kenovay talking to Dr John Holliday in September 1998.
Meena Knapman of Kenovay talks to Dr John Holliday in September 1998 about her early holidays on Tiree in the late 1920s and 1930s staying at Heanish then Vaul, the people in Vaul, the journey to Tiree from Glasgow and transport on Tiree, the funeral of John Brown from the Scarinish Hotel, Commander Dewar of Vaul, things to do on holiday in Tiree, shops and dances, Malcolm MacLean of Salum, the airport before WWII, memories of people and places, lighthouses seen from Tiree and Captain John MacKinnon of Vaul.
Photocopied book extract from `George Douglas, Eighth Duke of Argyll` edited by the Dowager Duchess of Argyll, pp 133-147, 285-6, 321, 508 & 633.
Extracts about the landscape of Tiree, its people and surroundings seas, Skerryvore lighthouse, the potato famine and emigration, some local birds and bird-shooting.
Forwarded e-mail from the Northern Lighthouse Board about the Skerryvore Steamer.
Forwarded e-mail from the Information Officer of the Northern Lighthouse Board about the paddle steamer `Skerryvore` which was built in 1839 in connection with the construction of Skerryvore lighthouse.
