Letter from Argyll & Bute Council to the Scottish Office regarding lack of pedestrian walkway at Tiree pier, 1996
Copy of a letter from Ken MacDonald, Area Corporate Services Manager, Argyll & Bute Council, Oban, to Michael Lowndes, Head of Shipping Services, The Scottish Office, Edinburgh, 14 Aug 1996, regarding the lack of pedestrian walkway at Tiree pier and requesting grant aid to provide one.
Colour photograph of Scarinish harbour in 2004.
The railway at Scarinish harbour used to beach the `Spindrift` in a cradle, photographed by Dr John Holliday in 2004.
Colour photograph of Traigh nam Muirsgian at Gott Bay in 2004.
Tràigh nam Muir-sgian at Gott Bay where razor fish are found, photographed by Dr John Holliday in 2004.
Colour photograph of Port a` Mhuilinn at Baugh in 2004.
Port a` Mhuilinn at Baugh photographed by Dr John Holliday in 2004.
Port an Tobair at Balemartine
Photograph of Port an Tobair at Balemartine in 2004.
Envious of the success of the Dutch fishing fleet in the North Sea, the British Government established the Fishery Board in 1809 to promote fishing around Britain. In 1824, the Board commenced a programme of pier building funded with contributions from landlords.
In 1847 at the height of the potato famine, the 8th Duke of Argyll paid £690 as his share of the cost to build four piers in Tiree at the Green, West Hynish, Balemartine and Milton. The Balemartine pier was built at Port an Tobair (harbour of the well) and at its busiest twelve boats used it.
Exposed to winter storms, the pier was repeatedly damaged. In 1902 thirty fishermen wrote to the County Clerk asking for it to be repaired. In 1912 the 9th Duke of Argyll and Lord Archibald Campbell contributed to its repair but it was finally destroyed by a storm in 1936.
Colour photograph of Port an Tobair at Balemartine in 2004.
Port an Tobair at Balemartine photographed by Dr John Holliday in 2004.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 340, 2/4/2005.
Local news and events including the new visitor information centre, the refurbishment of Taigh a` Rudha, Argyll & Bute Design Guide, a broadband update, Scarinish harbour and Gott pier improvements project, the flower book and Coll magazine project and news from the youth club, RSPB, the regatta club and the school.
Colour aerial photograph of Gott Bay pier taken in the summer of 2004 by Jane Phillis.
Gott Bay pier in the summer of 2004. © Jane Phillis (HD 146 16).
Colour aerial photograph of Scarinish harbour taken in the summer of 2004 by Jane Phillis.
Scarinish harbour in the summer of 2004. © Jane Phillis (HD 145 32).
Copied extract from `Account of Skerryvore Lighthouse` by Alan Stevenson.
Plan of Skerryvore rocks at high and low tides, chart of the position of Skerryvore rocks in relation to Tiree surveyed in 1846 (2 pages) and plan of the Hynish complex showing the pier, dock, reservoir, lightkeepers` and seamen`s houses, etc. (2 pages).
Colour photograph of pupils from P6/7 on Gott Bay pier in 1994-5.
Pupils from P6/7 on Gott Bay pier in 1994-5. L-R: Iain Brown, Cornaigbeg; Hannah Williams, Balemartine; Lyndsay Monaghan, Heanish; Angus John MacKechnie, Crossapol; David Hunter, Cornaigmore.
