Photograph of men loading tangle onto a lorry at Scarinish pier ca 1960
Black & white photograph of men loading tangle (kelp stalks) onto a lorry at Scarinish pier ca 1960. L-R: Hector Brown, Balevullin, Hugh MacDonald, Mannal House, John Neil MacPhail, piermaster standing on the lorry.
Photograph of pipers at Scarinish pier ca 1960
Black and white photograph of three pipers at Scarinish pier around 1960. L-R: Hugh MacLean, Sallum, Hector J Campell, Cornaigbeg, Robert Beck, Ruaig. (original photo in filing cabinet 9 drawer 3)
Typed document: The Gott Bay Pier Order, 1959
Crown Estate Order for the Council of the County of Argyll to undertake works to demolish the existing pierhead at Scarinish and erect a new t-shaped pierhead.
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Letters concerning a dispute over use of land for the new Gott Bay pier, 1909-1910
Original hand-written letters concerning a dispute over use of land for the new Gott Bay pier in 1909-10. 17 are written by Nonnie C. MacLean, Scarinish on behalf of her mother, and 5 by J. MacLean, Scarinish, all to the lawyer F.J. Martin. One letter is from J. MacLean of Scarinish Park to the Gott Bay Pier Trustees. One letter is from John Brown, Trustee of the new pier.
Letters concerning a dispute over the use of land for the new Gott Bay pier, 1909-1910
Photocopies of hand-written letters concerning a dispute over use of land for the new Gott Bay pier in 1909-10. 17 are written by Nonnie C. MacLean, Scarinish on behalf of her mother, and 5 by J. MacLean, Scarinish, all to the lawyer F.J. Martin. One letter is from J. MacLean of Scarinish Park to the Gott Bay Pier Trustees. One letter is from John Brown, Trustee of the new pier.
Letter from Argyll & Bute Council to the Scottish Office regarding lack of pedestrian walkway at Tiree pier, 1996
Copy of a letter from Ken MacDonald, Area Corporate Services Manager, Argyll & Bute Council, Oban, to Michael Lowndes, Head of Shipping Services, The Scottish Office, Edinburgh, 14 Aug 1996, regarding the lack of pedestrian walkway at Tiree pier and requesting grant aid to provide one.
Colour photograph of main wharf at Pictou Island, Nova Scotia.
The main wharf at Pictou Island, Nova Scotia. This photograph and the following two were taken by Ken MacCallum in August 2005 from a Cessna 172 seaplane using a Canon 20D digital camera with an image stabilised lens. Ken MacCallum is a descendant of John MacCallum, the first miller at Cornaig.
Black and white photograph of the rescued aircrew of Halifax LL510 at Tiree pier.
The rescued aircrew of Halifax from RAF Squadron 518 arriving at Tiree pier in November 1944.
Rescued airmen at Tiree pier in 1944
Photograph of rescued airmen at Tiree pier in 1944.
Courtesy of Mr Geoff Pringle
On 21 November 1944, one of starboard engines of Halifax LL510 from RAF Squadron 518 caught fire shortly after takeoff from Tiree airfield on weather reconnaissance duties. The flames were so intense the skipper decided to ditch in the Atlantic rather than risk returning to base.
Despite a thirty foot swell, the aircraft was safely ditched and the nine crewmen clambered aboard the inflatable dinghy with only minor scratches. To add to their danger, the water surrounding the Halifax was a sea of petrol, in the middle of which a fuel tank was bobbing about with flames issuing from a hole.
An Air-sea Rescue aircraft from Tiree dropped a second dinghy, then HMS ‘Flanders’ arrived to pick up the very much relieved airmen. They were given hot food, dry clothes and liberal amounts of Navy rum. The photograph pictures the crew safely back on Gott Bay pier.
Black and white photograph of the rescued aircrew of Halifax at Tiree pier.
The rescued aircrew of Halifax from RAF Squadron 518 standing at Tiree pier in November 1944. Far left: F/Sgt Ozzie Ozaist (Met Air Obs, Polish); forth from left: Flt Lt Freddy Green.
Black and white photograph of Gott Bay pier under construction.
Gott Bay pier under construction in the 1910s, from the Sturgeon collection, Coll.
