Colour photograph of a group at Kilmoluaig in the late 1970s.
Sheep-shearing at Kilmoluaig in the late 1970s. L-R: Lachie MacLean, Kilmoluaig; Murdoch Cameron, Balevullin; Maggie Campbell, Kilmoluaig; Murdoch MacLean, Kilmoluaig; Alec MacKechnie, Black Croft, Kilmoluaig.
Poster `Obair a` Bhainne`.
Poster about dairying illustrated with black and white drawings of hand implements.
Black and white photograph of Hector MacNeill and Charles Brown.
L-R: Hector MacNeill and Charles Brown (Tearlaich Chaluim) from Balephuil.
Black and white photograph of Donald MacArthur, Middleton in Omagh, Northern Ireland in 1989.
Donald MacArthur of Middleton observing a Tyrone Black with the late Walter J Shortt at Mountjoy West, Omagh, Northern Ireland in May 1989.
Black and white photograph of Alasdair Brown, Kilkenneth.
Alasdair Brown of Kilkenneth.
Photocopied extract from `A Voyage round the Coasts of Scotland and the Isles` by James Wilson, Vol I pp 108-115.
Account of a voyage around Scotland sailing past Skerryvore in the process of construction and visiting the lighthouse workshops at Hynish; description of Tiree`s landscape, stock and cultivation.
Photocopied extract from `List of Sheep Marks for the County of Argyll’, 1894, compiled by James Fraser, pp 58-61.
List of sheep marks for Coll and Tiree.
Black and white photograph of Tiree Agricultural Show in July 1927.
Prize mare with foal at foot, owned by Donald MacDougall, Ruaig, at Tiree Agricultural Show in July 1927.
Black and white postcard of a crofter`s stable.
Postcard of a Tiree crofter with a Clydesdale mare and foal outside a stable, thought to be the old smiddy by Kirkapol church.
Gott Bay pier in the 1920s
Photograph of a pig being hoisted aboard a steamer at Gott Bay pier in the 1920s.
Courtesy of Mrs Grace Campbell
In this photograph taken in the 1920s, a pig is being hoisted by a rope sling aboard a small steamer at Gott Bay pier. Canvas slings were more commonly used, but even so the pigs used to scream most horribly while in the air.
The Statistical Account of 1845 records that ‘a great number of pigs have been reared in this parish… They are generally exported alive chiefly to Glasgow and Greenock… Last spring upwards of 500 were shipped off from this island.’
The Agricultural Statistics for Tiree show that in 1867 there were only 260 pigs on the island. In 1910, the numbers had increased to 360, half of which were breeding sows. However, after 1910 the numbers declined steadily and by the mid-1960s there were none on the island
Black and white photograph of a pig being hoisted off a boat.
A pig being hoisted on or off a boat, probably taken in the 1930s.
