Black and white photograph of Gott Bay pierhead.
Selling cows from Lodge Farm at Gott Bay pierhead in the early 1930s.
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1999.100.2
Black and white photograph of Gott Bay pierhead.
Cattle from Lodge Farm at Gott Bay pierhead waiting to be shipped out after being sold in the early 1930s.
2003.111.3
Feeding hens at Vaul in the 1930s
Photograph of Catriona MacKinnon and Margaret Doig feeding hens at Vaul in the 1930s.
Courtesy of Mrs Nan MacClounnan
Catriona MacKinnon of Rhum View and her niece Margaret Doig are pictured feeding hens in Vaul in the 1930s. Most crofters on Tiree kept poultry, mainly hens but also some ducks. Between the wars, these numbered in total over eight thousand birds.
Up to the 1950s Tiree exported large numbers of eggs to the mainland. Eggs were bought by the local shopkeepers from their customers at a rate of 6d a dozen in payment for groceries and shipped by cargo steamer in wooden boxes of thirty dozen direct to Glasgow.
Eggs were also sent privately by post in boxes of two dozen. The eggs were protected by inserts of corrugated cardboard but even so the corner eggs often arrived broken.
Black and white photograph of Margaret Doig and her Aunt Neen in the 1930s.
Margaret Doig and her Aunt Neen (Catriona MacKinnon, Rhum View) feeding hens in Vaul the 1930s.
2003.105.2
Black and white photograph of a group of men sheep-dipping at Hough in the mid-1930s.
Sheep-dipping at Hough in the mid-1930s. L-R: John Cameron (Iain Mhurchaidh), Balevullin; Sandy Cameron (built Mary Cameron`s house in Balevullin); Sandy`s brother Murdoch Cameron; Donald MacKinnon, Hough, his father; John MacDonald, Balevullin (John Alec`s grandfather); Donald Archie MacLean, Millhouse (father of Eairdsidh, Teon and Allina).
2003.105.3
Black and white photograph of a group of men sheep-dipping at Hough in the mid-1930s.
Sheep-dipping at Hough in the mid-1930s. L-R: Sandy Cameron (built Mary Cameron`s house in Balevullin); Sandy`s brother Murdoch Cameron; Donald MacKinnon, Hough (Donald MacKinnon`s father); Alan Cameron; Lachie Cameron, Balevullin.
2003.105.4
Black and white photograph of sheep-dipping at Hough in the mid-1930s.
Sheep-dipping at Hough in the mid-1930s. L-R: unknown man; Donald MacKinnon, Hough (Donald MacKinnon’s father); two summer visitors.
2003.105.5
Black and white photograph of Hugh MacKinnon, Hough in the mid-1930s.
Hugh MacKinnon, Hough (Donald MacKinnon`s brother) with Lila the mare in the mid-1930s.
2003.105.6
Black and white photograph of group at Hough in the mid-1930s.
Hough in the mid-1930s. L-R: Donald MacKinnon, Hough; his son, Donald Kennedy MacKinnon; Hugh Archie MacLean, Hough; John MacArthur (Iain an Thairneir), Sandaig (built the MacLeods` house in Sandaig).
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Sepia photograph of Willie MacLean, Balevullin in the 1950s.
Willie MacLean of Burnside, Balevullin with Blackieina `prangas` in the 1950s. (Original in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer 2)
2003.105.8
Black and white photograph of sheep-dipping at Hough in the mid-1930s.
Sheep-dipping at `bocsa diopaidh`, Hough in the mid-1930s with Donald MacKinnon, Hough, at the front.
