Black and white photograph of Archie MacDonald, Melness.
Archie MacDonald of Melness, Cornaigbeg at the 1921 Horse Show.
1997.159.14
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1997.147.3
Newspaper article about Donald MacIntyre, Gott, and his Clydesdale horses, dated 1978.
A Clydesdale mare bred by Donald MacIntyre, Gott, won fourth prize at the Royal Highland Show. Also paragraphs about the school dux, new houses, crofting news, the banker, Tiree Cubs, the new GP and school attendance.
2002.136.9
Copied letter from Archibald MacArthur to Corsons, date unknown.
Letter from Archibald MacArthur, Balinoe requesting a bull or heifer from auctioneers Messrs Thomas Corson & Co, year unknown.
2002.136.10
Copied letter from Archibald MacArthur to Corsons, date unknown.
Letter from general merchant Archibald MacArthur, Balinoe requesting a bull or heifer from auctioneers Messrs Thomas Corson & Co, year unknown.
2002.136.6
Copied letter from Argyll Estates to Corsons dated 1940.
Letter from the Argyll Estates dated 28/6/1940 to auctioneers Messrs Thomas Corson & Co arranging for the collection of horses being transported to Tiree.
2002.136.8
Copied letter from Hugh Brown, Balephuill dated 1940.
Letter from Hugh Brown, Balephuill dated 11/3/1940 to an unknown person requesting a bull calf to be sent to Tiree.
1997.121.1
Photocopied extract from the Scottish Geographical Magazine `The Island of Tiree` by James R Coull.
Overview of Tiree covering the physical environment, the development of agriculture, kelp making and fishing, population, crofting as typified by the townships of Ruaig and Salum, communications and services.
1997.132.1
Photocopied extract from `The Drove Roads of Scotland` by A R B Haldane, pp 72-3, 84-9, 225-7, 236-41.
The drove roads of Argyll with appendices about salting beef, extracts from reports and etsimates by Thomas Telford relative to the Rannoch Road, General Roy`s survey, the bridge at Awe and the Falkirk tryst, plus two maps.
1997.138.1
Photocopied extract from `Outer Isles` by Ada Goodrich Freer, pp 1-61.
Account of a visit to Tiree in 1894.
1997.101.1
Cardboard egg box. Brown cardboard lidded eggbox, 242 x 190 x 73 mm, printed with `eggs with care` and lines for sender and addressee, containing corrugated cardboard insert for one dozen eggs.
Every Tiree croft had its chickens in the old days and eggs were a useful way to buy things from the shops if you had no money. In the Second World War, the airmen on Tiree were nicknamed the Royal Egg Force because of their fondness for them.
