Black and white postcard of a painting of Vaul.
Postcard painting of a view of Vaul.
1998.130.13
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2003.152.3
Black and white postcard of `Hunister` in Vaul.
`Hunister` in Vaul. (Original postcard in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer 2)
2000.131.1
Three floppy disks with Gaelic place-names in Tiree townships.
Gaelic place-names in the Tiree townships.
2000.150.10
Copied newspaper cutting about Captain J. C. MacKinnon.
Obituary for Captain J. C. MacKinnon from Vaul.
2000.53.1
Photocopied extract `The Buildings of Scotland – Argyll and Bute` by Frank Arneil Walker, pp 594-600.
Descriptions of townships and buildings, churches and chapels, burial grounds and cemeteries, monuments and memorials, duns, forts and broch, standing stones, airport and piers, Sandaig museum, Skerryvore and the Hynish complex.
2000.59.14
Family tree for Coll MacDougall of Vaul and his wife Ann Clark of Ruaig and a photograph of their gravestone in Tiverton cemetery, Ontario.
Family tree for Coll MacDougall (1802-1889) of Vaul and his wife Ann Clark (1814-1906) of Ruaig and a photograph of their gravestone in Tiverton cemetery, Ontario.
2000.59.15
Family tree for Alexander MacFadyen and his wife Mary MacLean and two photographs of their grandson`s gravestone in Tiverton cemetery, Ontario.
Family tree for Alexander MacFadyen and his wife Mary MacLean and two photographs of the gravestone of their grandson Rev Alexander MacFadyen and his wife Mary in Tiverton cemetery, Ontario.
1999.100.3
Black and white photograph taken outside Haven, Vaul.
Outside Haven, Vaul. L-R: John MacInness (Teonaidh an Loidse); Christina MacPhail; Neil MacLean; Christina Brown known as Kate who lived at Haven.
2003.111.2
The Co-op van at Vaul in the 1940s
Photograph of the Co-op van at Vaul in the 1940s.
Courtesy of Mrs Nan MacClounnan
This photograph, taken at Vaul in the mid-1940s, shows Catriona MacKinnon of Vaul with Margaret Doig, deputy Co-op manager Archie Robertson from Tobermory, a visitor, and van driver Neil MacNeill of Scarinish standing in front of one of the Co-op vans. A second van driven by Rob MacMaster served the west end of the island.
The vans carried a selection of basic groceries which at Christmastime included extras such as cakes and shortbread and small presents like socks and handkerchiefs. They made their rounds of the island every day of the week except Sunday and Monday.
Sometime in the 1960s the Co-op reduced their service to a single van driven by Rob MacMaster who would call at each township once a week. This ceased altogether in the early 1970s.
Black and white photograph of the Co-op van at Vaul in the 1940s.
The co-op van at Vaul in the 1940s. L-R: Catriona MacKinnon; Margaret Doig; Lorna and Morag Lee; Neil MacNeill (Cathy MacNeill`s husband).
2003.111.3
Feeding hens at Vaul in the 1930s
Photograph of Catriona MacKinnon and Margaret Doig feeding hens at Vaul in the 1930s.
Courtesy of Mrs Nan MacClounnan
Catriona MacKinnon of Rhum View and her niece Margaret Doig are pictured feeding hens in Vaul in the 1930s. Most crofters on Tiree kept poultry, mainly hens but also some ducks. Between the wars, these numbered in total over eight thousand birds.
Up to the 1950s Tiree exported large numbers of eggs to the mainland. Eggs were bought by the local shopkeepers from their customers at a rate of 6d a dozen in payment for groceries and shipped by cargo steamer in wooden boxes of thirty dozen direct to Glasgow.
Eggs were also sent privately by post in boxes of two dozen. The eggs were protected by inserts of corrugated cardboard but even so the corner eggs often arrived broken.
Black and white photograph of Margaret Doig and her Aunt Neen in the 1930s.
Margaret Doig and her Aunt Neen (Catriona MacKinnon, Rhum View) feeding hens in Vaul the 1930s.