Colour photograph of the 1997 Tiree regatta.
1997 Tiree regatta with Lorna MacDonald nee Munroe in the white-sailed Laser dinghy.
1998.25.3
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1998.25.4
Colour photograph of the 1997 Tiree regatta.
1997 Tiree regatta with a dipping lug second from the right.
1999.111.22
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.
1998.70.11
Five horse rosettes and ribbons.
Three tartan (one with white bead work) and two red and blue horse rosettes and extra ribbons used for decorating horses shown at Agricultural Shows (see photo D3 – 1997.159.14)
2003.22.1
Alick MacNeill’s turn-out at a 1950s Agricultural Show
Photograph of Alick MacNeill, Donald MacLean and Donald MacIntyre at an Agricultural Show at Crossapol in the early 1950s.
Courtesy of Mr Donald MacIntyre
The Tiree Agricultural Show was started in the 1880s by Tom Barr, the tenant of Balephetrish farm, to encourage local crofters to improve their stock of breeding horses and their income. Around 1900, a stirk (one-year-old calf) would fetch £4 to £5 whereas a good year-old filly foal would fetch £25 to £30.
At the Shows in the 1950s prizes were given for the best horse in a number of classes: Clydesdale geldings and mares, Highland ponies, cross geldings, mares, fillies or colts and any breed of foal. There was also a special prize for the best horse, cart and harness.
Alick MacNeill of Main Road Farm in Balephuil, Donald MacLean of Vaul and Donald MacIntyre of Gott are pictured at a Show at Crossapol in the early 1950s. By this time tractors had replaced the horse and Alick’s turn-out was the only entrant in its class.
Black and white photograph of Alick MacNeill, Donald MacLean and Donald MacIntyre.
Agricultural show at Crossapol in 1951 or 52. L-R: Alick MacNeill, Main Road Farm, Balephuill; Donald MacLean, Vaul; Donald MacIntyre, Gott.
1998.27.4
Photocopied newspaper cutting about the 1949 Tiree Argricultural Show.
Revival of the Agricultural and Home Industries Show after a lapse of ten years with prize list (incomplete).
2000.26.20
Black and white photograph of Alasdair Brown, Balephuil, at a Tiree Agricultural Show in the 1950s.
Alasdair Brown, Balephuil, with a prize Clydesdale at an Agricultural Show held at Crossapol in the 1950s.
2000.26.25
Black and white photograph of Alex MacNeill, Balephuil, at an Agricultural Show in the 1950s.
Alex MacNeill of Main Road Farm, Balephuil at an Agricultural Show in Crossapol in the 1950s. Note the elaborate show harness and the tractor wheels on the cart. In comparison with the old iron wheels, the rubber tyres made travelling quieter and more comfortable and made pulling the cart considerably easier for the horses.
2003.16.4
Newspaper cutting about plans for this year`s Agricultural Show.
The hopes and plans for the Argricultural Show to be held at Whitehouse in july 2003.
2000.22.3
Black and white postcard of a cattle show at Crossapol
Postcard of a cattle show at Crossapol.
