DVD film of the interior of Iain MacKinnon’s (Iain Chaluim) thatched house at Kilmoluaig in 1997. Iain Chaluim is seated by his hearth speaking with Iain Patterson, East Linton, while the camera pans the inside of the house, focusing on a variety of objects: medicines, tea caddies, photo of a baby, the range, glassware, wall clock, crockery, the interior of the porch. Furniture and a gas cooker, radio and kerosene lamp are also visible. The sound is muffled although Iain Chaluim can be heard to say “I don’t think Dr Holliday approves…very nice man”, then both Iain’s prepare roll-up cigarettes. Another unidentified crofter is present briefly at the start of the film. (5 minutes).
Colour postcard photograph of Drover’s Cottage, Barrapol, shortly after renovation by the Atkins around 2000. On the reverse are the contact details of the owners and its ‘three-crowns’ and ‘commended’ ratings as a holiday let.
Copy of colour transparency of Billy and Jean Taylor (Meena Knapman’s parents) walking by a black-roofed house by the old road in Lower Vaul around 1939
The location is outside Lazy Charlie’s House just beyond Seaside in Lower Vaul – it is now a ruin as it was in 1960 but not in the 1930s. Meena Knapman remembered Lazy Charlie when she first came to Tiree as a child in the 1920s & 1930s
Collection of 18 postcards of photographs of Tiree, 1920-1960
Collection of 18 original postcards showing photographed scenes from Tiree, some of which are used and stamped. Most are duplicates of existing archive items. Six scanned and accessioned separately (V121-V126).
Copy of `Cuairt Litir` – newsletter of the Friends of Thatched Houses, 1987
Copy of the first edition of the newsletter of the `Friends of Thatched Houses`, edited by Alec MacArthur, Heylipol. One article is of a series of photographs of `Roofing a New Barn in Tiree (July 1985)` (probably Scarinish), including Hector Brown and Murdoch MacLean, while another article is in Gaelic about the old houses of Tiree by Alan Boyd. The group was set up to aid perservation and restoration of traditional thatched houses in the Hebrides. Most members were from Tiree.
Photograph of `Tigh Ramsey` in Scarinish during renovation in 1988.
Colour photograph of thatched house `Tigh Ramsey` in Scarinish during renovation in 1988. The house on the right is actually an extension of the original thatched house. “Ramsey” and was the nickname of John George`s father.
Photograph of two men re-thatching a house in Kenovay ca 1980
Colour photograph of Neil MacDonald (Niall Dubh) and Hector Brown, Balevullin, thatching a house in Kenovay around 1980. (original stored in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1)
Black & white photograph of Johnny MacPhee and Morag MacPhee (Duncan MacPhee’s wife) outside their thatched house in Scarinish in 1947. Johhny MacPhee was Duncan MacPhee’s Uncle. Morag died in 1978. Johnny died in 1963 and Duncan died in 1997.
