Colour photograph of a visit by the Scottish School of Studies to An Iodhlann in early 2000.
Visit by the School of Scottish Studies to An Iodhlann in early 2000 to demonstrate the Tiree project, an interactive website of School of Scottish Studies and BBC recordings of oral histories and music from Tiree. L-R: Jo MacDonald of the BBC; Dr Margaret Mackay, Director of the School of Scottish Studies; the Tiree Project manager Dr Martin MacIntyre; John Smith of Edinburgh University Computing Services; Angus MacLean of Scarinish.
Black and white photograph of the first plane to land in Tiree in the late 1920s.
The first plane to land in Tiree on the Tiree Association Sports Day in 1927 or 1928, from a small album from Silversands, Vaul dating from the late 1920s.
Black and white photograph of the first plane to land in Tiree in the late 1920s.
Tiree Association Sports Day in 1927 or 1928. Captain A. N. Kingwill was hired to fly the first plane to the island, bringing with him the day’s newspapers. Short flights on the plane were on offer at 2/6d (12p) a time and Captain Kingwill gave a display of stunt-flying.
Plastic bottle with a message from a boy in Donegal, dropped in the sea off the NW of Ireland on 12/8/1999 and found on Crossapol beach on 20/8/1999. (Bottle contains a blank sheet of paper from the same invoice book as the message)
Mullard PM22A 5-pin master valve in its original box (130 x 50 x 50 mm) used to power a radio from a 120V battery, probably in use from the mid-1920s until the 1950s.
Black and white photograph of Scarinish harbour around 1940.
View of Scarinish harbour from the pier with the skiff `Passing Cloud in the foreground, the hotel and radio masts in the background, taken around 1940.
