Photocopied letter from Hugh MacDiarmid to the Duke`s chamberlain dated 7/12/1898.
Letter from the factor Hugh MacDiarmid dated 7/12/1898 to the Duke`s chamberlain about the deaths of two crofters, Archibald Brown of Mannal and Donald MacDonald of Ruaig, the state of the miller`s house at Cornaig (rotten flooring), and a request by Donald MacFadyen to build a store in Cornaigmore and a Coal-ree at Kenovay.
Photocopied letter from the factor Hugh MacDiarmid dated 23/11/1898.
Letter from the factor Hugh MacDiarmid dated 23/11/1898 to the Duke`s chamberlain about the repair of the bridges at Kirkapol and Cornaig.
Photocopied letter from the factor Hugh MacDiarmid dated 16/9/1898.
Letter from the factor Hugh MacDiarmid dated 16/9/1898 to the Duke`s chamberlain about the demolition of a deceased cottar`s cottage in Gott and the eviction of Donald MacNeill from Mary and Flora MacLean`s croft in Cornaigmore.
Letters regarding a disputed right of way through the commons of Kilmoluaig and Upper Cornaigmore, 1895
Copies of two letters: (1) from the factor Hugh MacDiarmid dated 24/7/1895 to the Duke`s chamberlain about a right of way through the commons of Kilmoluaig and Upper Carnaigmore claimed by a merchant Charles MacLean and a crofter John Cameron in Moss, and the breaking of the march dykes to effect the right of way, (2) to William Sproat dated 26/8/1895 from John Cameron of Moss about the disputed right of way through the march dykes of Kilmoluaig and Upper Cornaigmore farms.
Black and white photograph of the staff at Cornnaigmore Junior Secondary School in 1933-4.
The staff at Cornnaigmore Junior Secondary School in 1933-4. L-R: Miss Flora MacLachlan, Miss MacDiarmid, Mr A. C. MacDougall, headmaster Mr Morrison, Miss C. MacKinnon.
Black and white postcard of Cornaigmore machair.
Cornaigmore machair.
Black and white photograph of the laying of the corner brick for the new extension at Cornaigmore School.
Primary School teacher Miss MacDearmid laying the corner brick for the new extension at Cornaigmore Junior Secondary School in 1935. L-R: (adults) primary teacher Miss MacDearmid; headmaster Mr Morrison; Clerk of Works Mr MacBain; (children) Lachie Cameron, Balevullin; Effie MacInnes née MacDonald, Balevullin; Lottie MacLeod née MacDonald, Kilmoluaig; unknown; unknown; Morag Lamont, Balevullin; Mary MacPhail née MacKinnon, Cornaigmore; Anna Lyons née MacKinnon, Cornaigmore; Annie MacLean/Kennedy née MacCallum Cornaigmore; unknown; Katina Lamont, Balevullin; unknown; ? MacLean, Balephetrish; Mary MacIntyre née MacKinnon, Cornaigbeg; Effie Lamont née MacLeod, Kilmoluaig; Doris MacLean née MacKechnie, Kilmoluaig. (Original 2004.217.2 in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer3)
Black and white photograph of Calum Lamont, Cornaigmore.
Calum Lamont of Cornaigmore burning tangles in 1932.
Calum and Archibald Lamont
Photograph of Calum and Archibald Lamont burning tangles at Cornaigmore in the 1930s.
Courtesy of Mr Archie MacKinnon
Calum and Archibald Lamont are pictured here burning kelp, known as tangle, near Clachan at Cornaigmore in the 1930s. The cooled ash cakes were collected the next morning, bagged and stored in byres until collected by puffer.
There have been three phases in the island’s kelp industry: burning the seaweed for alkalis in the late 18th and early 19th centuries; for producing iodine in the second half of the 19th century; and for alginates in the 20th century.
In the 1980s and 1990s six part-time collectors worked the beaches of the island, lifting storm-cast kelp from the high tide mark. Around 10-25 tons of the dried seaweed was taken each year from Tiree to Girvan where it was processed into alginates used in the food, pharmaceutical, textile and cosmetic industries.
Black and white photograph of Calum and Archie Mor Lamont, Cornaigmore.
Calum and Archie Mor Lamont of Cornaigmore burning tangles in 1932.
Black and white photograph of Cornaigmore School in 1933/34. L-R: (back row)
Neil MacKechnie, Duncan MacLean, Hugh MacLean, Iain Lamont, Ronald MacDonald, Donald MacLean, Gilleasbuig MacLean, Lachie MacKinnon, L-R: (2nd back row) Lachie Cameron, Donald MacKinnon, Donald Campbell, Alasdair MacDonald, Neil MacDonald, Robert Wright, Alasdair MacLean, Donald Cameron, Alasdair Campbell, J. H. MacKinnon, John Hector MacKinnon, Allan Cameron, John Pollock, Donald MacDonald, Hugh MacDonald, Hector Campbell, L-R: (middle row) Allan MacDougall, teacher, Mary MacDiarmid, teacher, Ann Cameron, Ishbel MacKinnon, Flora A. MacNeill, Margaret MacCorqudale, Mary MacKinnon, Mr Morrison, teacher, Mary Munn, Flora MacKinnon, Katie MacKinnon, ?, ?, Flora MacLachlan, teacher, Chrissie MacKinnon, teacher, L-R: (2nd front row) Ian Campbell, Lachie MacLean, Elizabeth MacLean, ?, ?, Grace Campbell, Netta Brownlie, Annie MacCallum, May MacKinnon, Mary A. C. MacDonald, Annie MacLean, Charlotte MacDonald, Peggy MacKinnon, Allan MacCallum, Michael MacLean, Hector MacKinnon, L-R (front row) Duncan MacLean, Murdoch MacDonald, Colin Kennedy, Cathie MacMaster, Sine MacKinnon, Mary Kennedy, Katina Lamont, Anne MacKinnon, Mary MacLean, Duncanina MacMaster, Meg Gunn, Catriona MacCallum, Cathie MacKinnon, Marion MacDonald, Anne McLeod, Neil McLeod, Neil Lamont, (three in front) Archie MacKinnon, Doris MacKechnie, Hugh MacKinnon.
