Recollections of shopping on Tiree in the 1940s and 1950s.
Recollections of Alistair MacNeill of Hynish and North Berwick of shops, shop owners and shopping on Tiree during the 1940s and 1950s.
Click here to view 2013.100.1
2013.100.1
Leave a Reply
Tag Archives: salum
2011.105.1
Collection of pottery fragments found at Salum in 2011
Collection of 15 fragments of pottery found at Salum beach by Charles MacDonell in 2011, including part of the base of a pot and a fragment with hatch markings. Stored in box with 2010.35.1.
2011.62.1
Suggested identification for pottery `Mystery Object`
Handwritten suggestion for the identification of a large piece of pre-historic pottery drilled with holes. Possibly used as a bee hive, the holes being made for ventilation. Includes drawing and typed transcription. Relates to pottery fragment found by C MacDonell at Salum in 2009 (see 2010.35.1).
2011.22.1
OS 1:10,000 map of Vaul and Caoles 1976/7
Folded and damaged copy of 1976/7 1:10,000 Ordnance Survey map of Vaul, Salum, Caoles, Milton, Brock, Ruaig and Kirkapol showing contour lines, roads and paths, boundaries, townships and buildings, bridges and cattle grids, rivers and drains, sites of antiquities, vegetation and rock features. Duplicate archive item.
2010.53.2
Ordnance Survey map sheet LXV
Map of the eastern areas of Tiree from Baugh in the south to the Ringing Stone in the north, at a scale of 6 inches to the mile (1:10,560).
2010.53.3
Ordnance Survey map sheet LXV.2
Map of the Salum and Vaul area at a scale of 25 inches to the mile (1:2,500).
2010.35.2
Email about pottery fragments found at Salum in 2009
Printout of an email from archaelogist Tom Dawson, University of St. Andrews, to Charles MacDonell regarding the likely history and points of interest of a large collection of prehistoric pottery fragments (2010.35.1) found at Salum beach in 2009.
2010.35.1
Fragment of pottery with a hole drilled through
Large fragment of pottery with a hole drilled through collected by Charles MacDonnell from Salum beach in 2009, and possible explanation of its purpose by Ian Hewitt of Bournemouth University: may have been used as a beehive, the holes being for ventilation. It may also have been a ceramic milk strainer used in cattle husbandry (see page 17 of GW Davis 2011).
2010.29.5
Photograph of Calum `Salum` MacLean outside his shop in Salum ca 1960
Black and white photograph of Calum `Salum` MacLean outside his shop in Salum around 1960.
2009.121.1
Email about Tiree MacFadyens and MacLeans that settled in Regina, Canada in 1885
Email from Barry Beesley to An Iodhlann dated 14/10/2004, about his grandmother Christina MacFadyen, Salum, who emmigrated to Regina, Canada with her parents Donald MacFadyen and Mary MacLean, her uncle Neil MacFadyen and his wife Effie MacLean, and her father`s cousin Donald MacFadyen and wife Flora MacLean. Mary, Flora and Effie were sisters from Cornaigbeg. Includes their genealogies and an account of their lives in Canada.
Click here to view 2009.121.1