Folder titled `Argyll County Council` containing correspondence with Tiree and Coll District Council 1928 – 1969.
Folder titled `Argyll County Council` containing correspondence with Tiree and Coll District Council 1928 – 1969 about piers, graveyards, schools, housing water supply and sewerage, war memorials, the airstrip on Coll, roads, ferry and air services.
Folder titled `Tiree Ward Minutes` containing District Council papers dated from 1952 to 1964.
Folder titled `Tiree Ward Minutes` containing minutes of Tiree Ward meetings and Coll Ward meetings from 1952 to 1964 and some correspondence with Argyll County Council.
Black and white photograph of Gott Bay pier.
Gott Bay pier in the early 20th century.
Audio cassette recording of a ceilidh with Angus and Nella Munn, Neil and Vivienne Johnston and Dr John Holliday in 2000.
Angus Munn and Neil Johnston talk about electrician and builder Angus MacRae who was the first man to install TVs in Tiree and had a shop in Baugh, the inebriate MacEwan who was a professional golfer, the 18-hole golf course in Scarinish, the crofts in Heanish, Angus’s relations in Heanish, Captain MacKinnon’s relationship to the Nisbets, John Munn and his shop and horse-drawn van, the puffer Mary & Effie unloading at Port a’ Mhuilinn and the fishing boats that used to sail from this harbour.
Photocopied book `Account of the Skerryvore Lighthouse` by Alan Stevenson.
Photocopied account of the building of Skerryvore lighthouse with notes on the illumination of lighthouses by Alan Stevenson, plus a chart of the position of the Skerryvore rocks and plans of the rocks themselves at high and low water and the complex at Hynish (in two folders).
Paperback book `Rock Lighthouses of Britain` by Christopher Nicholson.
The construction and history of some of the world`s most famous lighthouses in Britain.
Draft version of discussion document `The Short Sea Crossing` produced by the Tobermory Harbour Association.
Discussion document produced in April 2001 about the advantages of the short sea crossing. i.e. services terminating in Tobermory with passengers driving to Craigenure to catch the ferry to Oban.
Unloading petrol drums off the M.V. ‘Loch Carron’ at Gott Bay pier
Photograph of petrol drums being unloaded from the M.V. ‘Loch Carron’ at Gott Bay pier.
Courtesy of Mrs Maggie Campbell
This photographs shows 44-gallon drums of petrol and diesel being unloaded from the M.V. ‘Loch Carron’ at Gott Bay pier. There were two petrol outlets on the island in the late 1970s: one at the pier-head owned by the West Highland Crofters & Farmers and the other at Browns’ shop in Balemartine.
Petrol was sold in Scarinish at a number of sites from the late 1920s onwards. The first pumps in the west end were installed in 1947 by Chrissie MacArthur who then owned the shop in Balemartine. There were also pumps in Balephuil between 1960 and 1972.
In 1991 the island faced a fuel crisis when the shop in Balemartine was sold to the Baptist Church and the ‘Crofters’ went into liquidation. In spring 1992 pumps were installed at the pier-head garage and the following year at the garage in Crossapol. Fuel is now delivered by bowser.
Colour photograph of the MV Loch Carron.
Loading petrol drums on the MV Loch Carron at Gott Bay pier.
Colour photograph of sheep on Gott Bay pier.
Loading sheep on the ferry MV Columba at Gott Bay pier.
Postcard with photograph of Kenneth MacKenzie, piermaster.
Kenneth MacKenzie of Scarinish, Gott Pier`s first piermaster. His house is now the Royal Bank of Scotland. (Original in Filing Cabinet 5 drawer 2)
