Black and white photograph of Eddie Busher with a Clydesdale mare.
Eddie Busher with a Clydesdale mare taken in Scarinish probably in the 1920s or 30s. The Reading Room can be seen in the background to the left.
1998.132.31
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1998.132.33
Black and white photograph of Iain MacKinnon of Lodge Farm, Kirkapol.
Iain MacKinnon, brother of Rev. Hector MacKinnon of Lodge Farm, Kirkapol, with a Clydesdale mare on Scarinish machair, probably taken in the 1920s. The Reading Room can be seen in the background to the right.
1998.132.35
Black and white photograph of Iain MacKinnon with a Clydesdale mare and foal.
Iain MacKinnon, brother of Rev. Hector MacKinnon of Lodge Farm, Kirkapol, with an unknown boy on a Clydesdale mare.
2003.157.9
Colour photograph of Donald MacIntyre of Gott inspecting lambs at the first sale at the new mart in 2003.
Donald MacIntyre of Gott, Tiree`s oldest crofter, inspecting lambs at the first sale at the new mart on the day of the opening of the Rural Centre in August 2003.
2003.157.10
First sale at the new mart
Photograph of the first sale at the new mart at Crossapol in 2003.
For many years crofters on Tiree battled to secure funding to replace the old market stance at Crossapol which had very limited facilities. During sheep and cattle sales, the lorries for transporting livestock caused an obstruction on the main road to the west of the island.
Funding for the project amounting to £532,000 was finally secured in December 2002. The funders were Argyll & the Islands Enterprise, Argyll & Bute Council, the Scottish Land Fund, SEERAD, the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, United Auctions, Scottish Natural Heritage and Investors in Society.
The Rural Centre was officially opened on the 21st August 2003. The ribbon at the entrance to the Centre was cut by Donald MacIntyre and Iain MacInnes, the island’s oldest and youngest crofters respectively. The following day saw the first sale of a pen of eight lambs donated by the directors of Tiree Rural Development.
Colour photograph of the first sale in the new mart in 2003.
Lambs in the first sale at the new mart on the day of the opening of the Rural Centre at Crossapol in August 2003.
1998.103.2
Black and white photograph of Donald MacKechnie, Kilmoluaig in 1960.
Donald MacKechnie (Maggie Campbell`s father) at Lochside, Kilmoluaig in 1960.
1998.103.14
Mary Jane and Mary Ann MacDonald of Balemartine
Photograph of Mary Jane and Mary Ann MacDonald of Balemartine feeding a calf.
Courtesy of Mrs Maggie Campbell
Home on holiday from service in Pollockshields, Glasgow in July 1929, sisters Mary Jane and Mary Ann MacDonald of Balemartine are pictured in their Sunday best feeding the family’s three month old calf.
Calves were separated from their mothers immediately after birth to ensure a supply of milk for the house. When old enough, they would be tethered in the summer pasture at Hynish, three miles distant from the croft house, and fed milk from a pail supplemented with meal.
Calves were fed in this manner for up to eight months and sold three or four months later, providing the family’s main source of income.
Black and white photograph of sisters Mary Jane and Mary Ann MacDonald of Balemartine.
Sisters Mary Jane and Mary Ann MacDonald of Balemartine feeding a calf in Hynish in July 1929.
1998.103.17
Black and white photograph of Donald MacKechnie and Alasdair MacDonald of Kilmoluaig in 1953.
Donald MacKechnie and Alasdair MacDonald of Kilmoluaig with horses Rosie and Polly in 1953.
1998.103.21
Black and white photograph of Mary Ann MacKechnie feeding calves in the mid-1950s.
Mary Ann MacKechnie nee MacDonald feeding calves behing Ben View, Kilmoluaig in the mid-1950s.
1998.103.1
Black and white photograph of Donald MacKechnie, Kilmoluaig in the late 1950s.
Donald MacKechnie (Maggie Campbell`s father) with a horse and cart behind the old steadings, Kilmoluaig around 1958-1960.
