Booklet `The Changing Role of the House of Argyll in the Scottsih Highlands` by Eric Cregeen.
Assessment of the role of the house of Argyll in the Highlands between 1680 and 1806. Front cover inscribed `With best wishes, Eric Cregeen`.
Newspaper article `Tiree – United Auctions` with photocopy.
List of cattle sale prices with sellers` names and townships.
Bound extract of `Parish of Tiree and Coll` by Rev. N Maclean from `The Second Statistical Account of Scotland Vol VII`.
An account of the topography of Tiree and Coll, their natural and civil history, population, industries and parochial economies.
Photocopied article about Rev. William John MacLeod
Minister with two flocks – his congregation and his sheep.
Interior decoration in the 1920s
Sound clip in English of Mabel Kennedy talking about interior decoration in the 1920s.
Courtesy of Mrs Mabel MacArthur
Mabel Kennedy talks to Dr John Holliday in October 1998 about the interior decoration of the house at Main Road Farm in Balephuil where she lived until she went to work in service in Glasgow in 1926.
The floors of the house were made of concrete although, at that time, some must still have been beaten earth and clay. Earthen floors were considered warmer for children’s feet than concrete or flagstones and were kept clean by a sprinkling of shell sand every day except Sunday.
The walls inside were painted twice a year with whitewash made from seashells. The difficulty and expense of obtaining household goods on a remote Hebridean island encouraged the resourcefulness of the local people who would make do with the materials to hand.
