Black and white photograph of a coal puffer either at Gott Bay or Soroby around the 1910s. From a collection of photographs from Mannal House.
2015.40.13
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2015.40.4
Collection of 29 black & white photographs and postcards retrieved from Mannal House featuring members of the MacDonald family, Catherine Campbell, Annie Campbell, Private H MacDonald, and their relations, around 1900-1930s. Some of these photos are catalogued individually (2015.40.6 – 2015.40.23).
2014.43.10
Photograph of a coal puffer on Soroby beach around 1950
Black & white photograph of a coal puffer beached “north of Balemartine (Soroby?)” around 1950, with horse-drawn carts transporting coal away across the machair. (original stored on CD in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1)
2014.36.4
Front cover of a Bernard D Smith & Son calendar
Cardboard front cover of a calendar(? 2013?) made by and advertising Bernard D Smith & Son builders, West Hynish, showing a black & white photograph of the coal puffer `Anzac` unloading coal on Caoles beach in 1952. Photograph accessioned separately as U152.
2014.36.5
Photograph of a coal puffer unloading coal at Coales in 1952
Black & white photograph of the coal puffer `Anzac` beached at Caoles in 1952 while horse- and tractor-drawn carts wait for coal to be unloaded on to them. (original stored in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1; 2014.36.4)
2013.127.33
Photograph of boats tied up at Scarinish Harbour around 1950.
Black & white photograph of three coal puffers (?) tied up at Scarinish Harbour around 1950.
2012.125.8
Photograph of the puffer `Glenshira` in Scarinish Harbour in 1966
Black & white photograph of the coal puffer `Glenshira` alongside the pier in Scarinish Harbour in August 1966. The store shed, and ferry `Claymore` are visible in the background with two small wooden boats in the foreground.
2010.9.1
Letter in The Scots Magazine, Dec. 2009, from “Barrow Boy” Peter MacLeod (b. 1933) about his childhood on Tiree ca 1936.
Photocopy of a page from The Scots Magazine, Dec. 2009, showing a black & white photograph of a very young Peter MacLeod with his wooden wheel-barrow in Ruaig School playground ca 1935/36, and his letter to the magazine in 2009. The letter tells of the coal puffers beached at Gott Bay and collecting cow-pats in summer for fuel. Peter was the son of the Head Teacher at Ruaig School and was born on Tiree – he classed himself as a Tiree man and spoke Gaelic. He became the Manager of the Royal Bank of Scotland in Argyll Square, Oban. Now retired.
2010.3.3
Wall calendar 2009 by Bernard D. Smith & Son – general builders and contractors
Card wall calendar (2009) by Bernard D. Smith & Son – general builders and contractors, showing a colour photograph of the coal puffer boat “Cle?shira” in Scarinish Harbour ca 1960.
2005.30.1
Copied black and white postcard of a coal puffer at Ruaig.
Postcard of a coal puffer unloading at Ruaig.