Tag Archives: smiddies and blacksmiths

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2001.155.1

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Audio cassette recording of Professor Donald Meek talking to Maggie Campbell in Caoles in August 2001.

Professor Donald Meek talks to Maggie Campbell in Caoles in August 2001 about his schooldays at Ruaig, Cornaig and later in Oban, his language studies at Glasgow and Cambridge Universities, learning other Celtic languages, his concerns for the future of Gaelic, his 30 years teaching Gaelic, his hopes for the future, the changes in Caoles, the old occupations and the scarcity of spoken Gaelic, songs and poetry now.

2000.189.1

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Audio cassette recording of John MacKinnon of Kilmoluaig talking to Maggie Campbell in 2000.

John MacKinnon (Iain Aonghais) of Kilmoluaig talks to Maggie Campbell in 2000 about his father Johnnie and his smiddy in Kilmoluaig, his uncle learning the trade in Cornaigbeg, Mull and Glasgow, himself working the bellows, the work of the blacksmith shoeing horses, the people of the area and their horses, the versatility of blacksmiths, the changes in the methods of crofting and the machinery used.

1999.258.1

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Audio cassette recording of Hugh Macleod of Cornaigbeg talking to Maggie Campbell in November 1999.

Hugh MacLeod (Eòghann Charrachan) of Cornaigbeg talks to Maggie Campbell in November 1999 about the smiddy in Cornaig and the blacksmith Seumas MacCallum who worked there in the 1930s and 1940s shoeing horses, the two churches in Cornaig and the preacher, Hector Meek of Caoles, church attendance, the Cornaig mill, the livestock at Whitehouse which was once a school, the weather station, the old ferries, good singers from Cornaig including Mod medallists.

1998.281.1

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Audio cassette recording of Alex MacLean of Cornaigbeg interviewed by John Donald MacLean in 1998.

Alex MacLean (Ailig Iain Alasdair) of Cornaigbeg talks to John Donald MacLean in 1998 about his ancestors, some of whom emigrated to New Zealand, a MacLean gathering there of 80 of his relatives, bulb growing on Tiree which was set up in 1958 by the Agricultural College, the MacEachern blacksmiths, one of whom was a lay preacher, the making of a harpoon for catching whales, the coal puffers which unloaded their cargo on different beaches and crofting in general. Tha Ailig MhicIllEathain (Ailig Iain Alasdair) a Còrnaig Bheag a’ bruidhinn ri Teòn Dòmhnall MhicIllEathain ann an 1998 mu a shloinntearachd, cuid dhuibh a chaidh don Seallainn Nuadh, cruinneachadh MhicIllEathain far an robh ceithir fichead da fhear-cinnidh, obair na meacain fluir a chaidh a chur air bonn ann an 1958 le Colaisde an Tuathanachais, na goibhnean Mhic Eacharna, aon dhuibh na shearmonaiche nach buin don chlèir, an dòigh air murghadh a’ dhèanamh airson glacadh na mucan mara, na bàtaichean guail a’ cur a mach an luchd air diofar thràighean agus croitearachd mar as cumanta.

2003.185.3

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Black and white photograph of Clydesdale horse dressed for showing in the 1950s.

Clydesdale horse belonging to Alec MacNeill of Main Road Farm, Balephuil, dressed for a Tiree Show at Crossapol in the 1950s. L-R: John MacLean of Balevullin, blacksmith Hugh MacEachern of Cornaigbeg, Hector J. C. Campbell of Cornaigbeg.

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1998.176.11

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Archie MacEachern and his sister Fileag in Harris

Photograph of blacksmith Archie MacEachern and his sister Fileag at Leverburgh Sunday School in Harris in the 1920s.

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Courtesy of Mrs Mairi Brady

In this photograph taken at Leverburgh Sunday School in Harris in the 1920s, Archie MacEachern is in the centre and his sister Fileag is second on the left. Their father was Archibald MacEachern, the blacksmith at Creag Mhòr in Cornaigbeg.

Archie worked for around eleven years on Harris as a blacksmith and missionary. Part of his work involved making spearheads for the harpoons used in the whaling industry. He returned to Tiree in the 1930s to work in the smiddy at Creag Mhòr.

He married Catherine MacLean from The Brae, Cornaigbeg and the couple had three children, Archibald, Hugh and Mary. Archie continued his missionary work, preaching in the United Free Church in Kirkapol in the 1930s.

Black and white photograph of Archie and Fileag MacEachern in Harris in the 1920s.

Leverburgh Sunday School, Harris, in the 1920s. Archie MacEachern is in the centre and his sister Fileag is second left. Archie was the blacksmith at Creag Mhor in Cornaigbeg and also a lay preacher and missionary. He preached in the United Free Church in Kirkapol in the 1930s.

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