Photograph of Hugh MacFadyen, Salum, at his thatched house ca 1900
Black & white photograph of Hugh MacFadyen of Salum standing at the doorway of his thatched `spotty` house around 1900. See 2011.78.2 for family history.
2013.148.13
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2013.127.32
Photograph of a white workhorse ca 1940
Sepia photograph of a white workhorse in front of a thatched house at Caoles (?) around 1940.
2013.110.7
Photograph of the ruined house at Craignis, Hough, in 1999
Colour photograph of Taigh na Camshronaich or Taigh Dhòmhnaill Chraignis, the ruined cottage at Craignis, Hough, taken in 1999.
2013.110.18
Photograph of runs of tangles at the MacKinnon croft at Balevullin in 2000.
Colour photograph of several lines of tangles drying on racks by a thatched house on Neil MacKinnon`s croft at Balevullin in 2000.
2013.105.2
Pot chain from a ruined house at The Land, Barrapol
Black-painted metal pot chain / slàbhraidh found in the chimney of a ruined thatched house (Tigh Thearlaich Bhruin) at The Land, Barrapol. Given to Ailean Boyd by William MacNeill (Uilleam an Tailleir). Includes a note handwritten by Ailean Boyd in 1972.
2013.80.1
Newspaper article about help for residents of thatched houses, 1981
Cutting from the Glasgow Herald about a task force set up by Argyll & Bute Council to help improve the living conditions in 14 houses on Tiree through restoration and modernisation. Features photographs of John MacKinnon, Kilmoluaig, and of Alastair MacDonald and his neice Rena. Includes photocopies of original.
2013.71.1
Collection of metal tools from a ruin in the 1970s
Assemblage of eight black-painted tools, length of straw rope and a pair of glasses, collected by Ailean Boyd from ruins in the 1970s: forge tongs, head of an open clay spade used for heavy soils of bottoms of ditches, pony shoe, turf edger head, hammer wrench, ash scraper, fork head, unknown head.
2013.65.1
Tiree Memories 2014 calendar by Alec Walker
Collection of colour and black & white photographs of old Tiree made into a calendar for 2014. Images include scything at Kilmoluaig, Balemartine PO in the early 1900s, Island House in 1924, drawing of Tug o` War in the late 1800s, Malcolm MacArthur at the reins of his grocers cart, Scarinish harbour 1900, Tiree Pipe Band 1977, Tug o` War 1979, milk delivered in old whisky bottles, coal puffer at Scarinish harbour, thatched house 1921, plane Britee-Norman Trislander 1979, ferry `Columba` in 1970s.
2013.33.6
Photograph of a line drawing of Scarinish Harbour ca. 1900
Black & white photograph of a postcard illustrated with a line drawing of a view of Scarinish Harbour from the machair. The Mary Stewart, freight store and a thatched cottage are included. (Original stored in filing cabinet 9 drawer 4)
2013.21.1
Booklet `Winds of Change` 2004
Booklet about the history of housing and house design on Tiree. Researched by Dr John Holliday for a summer exhibition at An Iodhlann.