Colour photograph of drying tangles on shingles in April 1999.
Drying tangles on shingles in April 1999.
1999.126.7
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1999.126.8
Colour photograph of drying tangles on rocks in April 1999.
Dying tangles on rocks in April 1999.
1999.126.9
Colour photograph of the 1800 tangle store at Port Hanais.
The ruins of the 1800 tangle store at Port Hanais behind Ben Hough in 1999.
1999.126.10
Colour photograph of re-opened kelp pit in 1999.
Re-opened kelp pit for burning tangles in the spring of 1999.
1999.126.1
Jar of tangle ash produced on Tiree in June 1999.
2003.163.4
Colour photograph of Duncan and Neil MacKinnon and David MacClounnan in 1991.
Twins Duncan and Neil MacKinnon and David MacClounnan, all from Balephuil, collecting tangles in West Hynish in February 1991.
1997.246.1
Binder `The Island of Tiree 1941 – 1943` containing an account of George Holleyman’s time on Tiree, plus 123 related photographs.
Account by RAF policeman and amateur archaeologist George Holleyman FSA of his time on Tiree between September 1941 and June 1943. Includes seventy-five photographs taken on Tiree by George Holleyman between September 1941 and June 1943, and forty-eight black and white photographs/postcards taken by unknown photographer(s). George Holleyman carried out significant amounts of pioneering archaeological work in Sussex during the first half of the 20th century along with Drs. Eliot and Cecil Curwen. He was made a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1949.
1997.243.2
Audio cassette recording of Hector MacPhail talking at Vaul Golf Club on 31/1/1997
Hector MacPhail talking at Vaul Golf Club on 31st January 1997 about Clydesdale horses on Tiree, Tom Barr, the Scottish Horse Regiment, his great-uncle Archie MacDougall, Tiree blacksmiths, shoes and clothes made on Tiree, weaving and carpentry, graveyards and tacksmen, Sir Donald MacLean, Tiree place-names, UK boxing championship Donald Lamont, shebeens and whisky distilling, peat and seaweed, emigration, fishing and Hynish pier, local boat-building.
1999.191.29
Scottish Natural Heritage report No. 34: `Information review on the impact of kelp harvesting` by Dr Martin Wilkinson.
Report detailing the kelp resources around Scotland, the effect of their removal on the ecosystem and the advisability of instituting a management system.
1999.171.1
Condensed report titled `Littoral Seaweed Resource Assessement & Management in the Western Isles`.
Report containing results of a seashore survey to assess the existing seaweed resource, a study of the principles on which to base future exploitation and an economic appraisal of the viability of seaweed harvesting.