Book `Popski`s Private Army` by Vladimir Peniakoff
Softback book about the wartime adventures of Vladimir Peniakoff (nickname `Popski`), who formed his own elite fighting force in the North African Desert during WWII. The foreword is by John Campbell who owned the yacht `Oceana` when it grounded and broke up on Crossapol Beach at Baugh in 1949.
Aerial photo of Baugh House and the Surgery in 2013
Colour aerial photograph of Baugh House and the Surgery taken by Stuart Smith, Crossapol, from the Glasgow plane in 2013.
Photograph of Jean and Helen Oldfield at Tyrii Pottery in 2000
Colour photograph of L-R: Jean Oldfield and her daughter Helen Oldfield in their workshop at Tyrii Pottery, Baugh, in 2000.
Photograph of a tide clock from Tyrii Pottery in 2000
Colour photograph of a pottery tide clock made at Tyrii Pottery, Baugh, in 2000.
Notice from the Edinburgh Gazette 1916 regarding the cancellation of the Heanish Cooperative Society
Printed transcription of a notice from the Edinburgh Gazette 1916 regarding the cancellation of the Heanish Cooperative Society Ltd at Baugh, on the grounds that it has ceased to exist.
Long metal rod used for drilling rock / `jumper`
Long metal (iron?) rod with star-shaped end used for drilling rock in combination with a compressor. From Baugh quarry during WWII. Given to Dr Holliday by Donald MacKinnon, Hough, in response to article in An Tirisdeach.
Old glass `Schweppe` bottle
Tall, round-bottomed glass bottle found in the dump behind Baugh Surgey in 2012. Pale clear glass with large raised lettering all around bottle reading “J.Schweppe & Co., 51 Berners Street, Oxford Street, genuine superior, aerated waters”. Probably used for administering medicines.
Tiree Memories 2012 calendar
Display copy of Alec Walker`s `Tiree Memories 2012` calendar with old images of Skerryvore Lighthouse, the ferry and pier in the 1950s, airport control tower in mid 1950s, view from Balephetrish Hill over Balephetrish to Kenovay and Crossapol in the 1960s, a crofters house Balephuil, Balemartine around the 1960s, Baugh Bay, ferry at pier in mid 1930s, Gott Bay, Kirkapol church, view from Ben Hough of Loch Bhasapol, Scarinish from the air in the 1960s, coal boat unloading at Ruaig during the 1930s,
Cover of an Annual Report from the Tiree Medical Practice, ca. 2008
Front cover of an Annual Report of the Tiree [Medical] Practice, `Iomraidh na Bliadhna, Bho`n Dotair a` Tiriodh`, from around 2008, with a colour photograph of rowing boat on Traigh Gott with the pier in the distance.
Photograph of the memorial to Dr Buchanan at Baugh in the 1930s
Black & white photograph of the memorial to Dr Buchanan at Baugh in the 1930s
