Tag Archives: smiddies and blacksmiths

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Black and white photograph of Hugh Campbell and his daughter Flora.

Hugh Campbell with his daughter Flora outside the smiddie at Creag Mhor, Cornaigbeg in the 1920s or 1930s. Hugh worked as a chemist in Port Glasgow and was the son of John Campbell from Garaphail and his wife Flora MacEachern, the blacksmith`s sister.

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John and Flora Campbell

Photograph of John and Flora Campbell with a hay rake and pitchfork in the 1930s.

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Courtesy of Mrs Mairi Brady

In this photograph taken in the 1930s, John Campbell from Garaphail in Cornaigmore and his wife Flora MacEachern from Creag Mhòr in Cornaigbeg are helping out with hay-making.

The pitchfork and wooden hay rake would have been made locally, the pitchfork head in one of the island’s smiddies, possibly in Cornaigbeg. Flora was the aunt of Hugh MacEachern, the last blacksmith there.

John and Flora had two sons: Hugh who was a chemist in Port Glasgow and Archie who played with Norwich City Football Club. In their retirement the couple returned to Tiree and lived near the school at Cornaigmore.

Black and white photograph of John and Flora Campbell.

John Campbell from Garaphail and his wife Flora MacEachern from Cornaigbeg with pitchfork and wooden hay rake, probably taken in the 1930s. They had two sons: Hugh who was a chemist in Port Glasgow and Archie who played football with Norwich City F.C.

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Black and white photograph of Peggy MacEachern, Sadie Campbell and Bella MacLean around 1920.

Cornaigbeg around 1920. L-R: Peggy MacEachern, sister of Archie the blacksmith at Cornaigbeg; Sadie Campbell who was married to Archie Campbell, the nephew of Peggy and Bella; Bella MacLean, sister of Peggy and grandmother of Alec Mor.

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