Black and white postcard portrait photograph of a family outside their thatched house in Mannal in the early 1900s. From a collection of photographs from Mannal House.
2015.40.18
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2015.40.10
Black and white postcard photograph of uniformed naval officers seated around a table, presumably in the officers’ mess of a ship, around the 1930s. From a collection of photographs from Mannal House.
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).
2015.23.1
Hardback book ‘Manual of Seamanship, Vol. II’, 1909, found during a barn clear-out in Caoles in 2015. Manual covering aspects of seamanship. (see 1997.223.1 for Vol. I)
2015.11.6
Colour photograph of John Allen Cameron, skipper of the Coll ferry boat, taking passengers between the ferry and the pier in the 1970s. (original stored in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1)
2014.107.14
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 429, 08/11/08
Local news: retirement of PC Danny Lapsley; interview with George Campbell; HMS Sturdy memorial; Farmhouse Café opens in Balemartine; Labour spin-doctor Alastair Campbell; cattle sale results; `Danny`s Song`.
2014.84.1
Certificate of Competency – Master (steamship), 1928
Black and gold bound wallet containing the Certificate of Competency as Master of a Foreign-going steamship awarded to Neil MacKinnon (b. Glasgow, October 1903) on 10th December 1928. Neil had Vaul connections.
2014.84.2
Certificate of Discharge from the Ministry of Transport (seamen), 1971
Original paper Certificate of Discharge for Staff Captain Neil MacKinnon (b. Glasgow, October 1903) at Rotterdam on 3 June 1971. Neil had Vaul connections.
2014.84.3
Crewman`s Landing Permit for USA, 1971
Original paper Landing Permit for Neil MacKinnon (b. Glasgow, October 1903) allowing him shore leave from the `M.V. Foreland` to Norfolk, Virginia, USA, on 17 May 1971. His next of kin is given as wife Katherine, Kirkintillock. Neil had Vaul connections.
2014.84.4
Handwritten information regarding the heredity of Neil MacKinnon (b. Glasgow, 1903)
Handwritten information about the family of Neil MacKinnon, captain in the Merchant Navy, his possible link to Tiree, and documents and photograph 2014.84.1 to 5. Neil had Vaul connections and could have been the illegitimate son of Mhairi`s grandmother Sarah MacDonald (nee MacKinnon; b. 1867), who, after his birth, married Robert MacDonald of Wick (and Tiree and Patagonia?) in December 1903.