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2025.15.1

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A collection of photos from Flora MacKinnon, Kilmoluaig, showing her family and friends.

 

The Maclean family on horse & cart. Front seat: Duncan and Flora “grannie”

 

Hay making. Mary MacLean; Jessie McRory; unknown boy; Peggy MacLean

 

Neil MacLean in his uncle John’s house on Paisley Road West

 

L-R: Archie and Hugh Mackinnon, Hough

 

Duncan MacLean (centre). Later to become the vet

 

Morag or Marion MacLean, Balevullin, graduating as nurse. Southern General Hospital, Glasgow. c. 1914. Back row, 5th from left.

 

Morag MacLean. Front row, 2nd from left.

 

Morag MacLean at TB Sanatorium. 2nd from left.

 

Margaret MacLean. Teacher, Ruaig School. c. 1950s. On right

 

Neil MacKinnon cutting thatch at Balevullin

 

Doneil Kenneth? and Neil MacKinnon with Smokey at Moss. 1950s

 

Mary Munn, Baugh, 1920s. Sister of Jake Munn

 

Nette (Jessie) and Neil MacLean (Flora’s mother and father), Balevullin. 1920s

 

Portrait of Flora MacLean

 

Flora MacLean. On the reverse: Flora MacLean, 4 Montague Terrace, Kelvinside

 

Flora MacLean, nurse to Baby “Dunn”. 1914. It is said she caught TB in this household.

 

John MacLean (back row, centre). Uncle to Morag, Flora, Maggie, Neil, Donald and Duncan

Portrait of John MacLean

 

2022.29.8

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Hardback book ‘Aids to Anatomy and Physiology – a complete textbook for the nurse’, 1948, belonging to Ishbel MacDonald of the MacDonald/MacCorquodale/MacLean family of Kenovay. Like many others from Tiree, Ishbel became a nurse at the Royal Infirmary in Glasgow.

2020.53.2

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60th anniversary souvenir edition of NHS Glasgow’s ‘Health News’ newspaper, July 2008, containing articles and photographs from the birth of the NHS in 1948 to 2008. Most folk on Tiree will have used Glasgow’s hospital facilities at some time over the decades, and many took up positions in nursing there. The paper provides an insight into health care at that time. From ‘Harbour’, Caoles.

2020.1.49

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Four photographs of Charles McLean (1894-1923), youngest son of Lachlan McLean and Mary McDonald, Kenovay, taken in around 1914-1920. Charles died at the age of 28 after being gassed on the Somme during WW1. Top left: Charles in the uniform of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, with his brothers Hector McLean (left) and Donald Archibald McLean (right). Top right: Charles (seated left) and two fellow patients in their ‘hospital blues’ uniforms. Lower left: Charles (standing 3rd from right, wearing Glengarry hat) and other patients and staff at the Army Hosptial. Lower right: Charles (seated left) in around 1914(?). Part of a large collection of items belonging to and about Donald Archibald McLean, Kenovay (1890-1981), and his family.

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2020.1.44

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Black & white photograph of Mary/Mashag MacLean (1888-1964), Kenovay, in nurses uniform in around 1924. On the reverse is written “Dear and kind Auntie Mashag”. Mary was the youngest sister of Donald Archibald McLean, Kenovay. She married Alfred McGill and had a son, Freddie. Part of a large collection of items belonging to and about Donald Archibald McLean, Kenovay (1890-1981), and his family.

 

2020.1.17

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Black & white photograph of two generations of MacLeans of Kenovay & Linlithgow, in 1941. (L-R) Mary, Charles, Effie, Donald Archibald (father), Euphemia (mother), with Alister in front. Taken just before Charles, an RAF airman, went missing in action over the English Channel in November 1941. Part of a large collection of items belonging to and about Donald Archibald McLean, Kenovay (1890-1981), and his family.

Click here for additional photos taken at that time, which include Isabella McLean.

Click here for postcards of Linlithgow High Street ca 1900 and Linlithgow Academy 1920s.

Euphemia in later years wearing a brooch given to her by her son Charles.

2018.54.26

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Colour photograph of the Tiree District Nursing team in the 1990s. L-R: Kate MacCallum, Jane Williams, Sylvia Pearson, Ann MacKinnon, Mairi MacLean. Seated: Flora MacKinnon, Storm Byfield.

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