Digitised copy of State of expense of Tiree mills, 1806. Contains details of the expenses of erecting two mills (one for oat and barley and the other for lint), for erecting machinery for a hind mill, and other expenses relating to the building of these mills. There is no transcript for this item.
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From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
Black and white photograph of oat stooks at Maraekakho in New Zealand.
Stooking oats at the MacPhee`s at Maraekakho Station in New Zealand. L-R: Bill MacPhee (Annie MacKinnon`s husband); Annie`s brother Hugh with unknown child; Bill`s father John MacPhee; Hugh and Annie`s father Donald MacKinnon; Tony Player.
Colour photograph of Lachie MacLean, Druimfhraoich and Hector J C Campbell, Cornaigbeg in the 1980s.
Lachie Maclean of Druimfhraoich and Hector J. C. Campbell of Cornaigbeg binding oats at Dhruimfhraoich, Kenovay in the mid-1980s. The tractor is a Massey Ferguson.
Colour photograph of Hector J C Campbell and Susan Lamont in the 1980s.
Lachie MacLean and Susan Lamont cutting oats at Druimfhraoich, Kenovay in the late 1980s. Note the adagan in the foreground.
Photocopy of book extract `Parish of Tiry` by Rev. Archibald McColl.
Description of the geography of Tiree, its wildlife, minerals, antiquities, climate, diseases, population, fuel, manufactures and fishery, livestock, agriculture, the character and customs of the people, the poor, schools, emigration, ferries, churches.
Photocopy of book `Argyll Estates Instructions` edited by Eric Cregeen.
The instructions given by John, the 5th Duke of Argyll to his Chamberlain in Mull and Morvern and his Chamberlain in Tiree with an introduction by Eric Cregeen.
