Invitation to the private viewing of Tiree Art Enterprises 11th Annual Exhibition.
Invitation to the private viewing of Tiree Art Enterprises 11th Annual Exhibition held at the Morton Boyd Hall, Hynish on 11/7/2003.
2003.142.1
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Township: hynish
1997.162.1
Mr R. M. Percy at the Hynish bulb farm in the 1950s
Postcard of the Hynish bulb farm in the 1950s.
Courtesy of Mrs Mary MacKinnon
In the early 1950s the West of Scotland Agricultural College’s horticultural adviser R. M. Percy suggested an experiment in bulb-growing to Walter Hume of Hynish. The experiment showed that the light sandy soils of Tiree were well suited to growing daffodil, tulip, narcissus and hyacinth bulbs.
Encouraged by this success, a number of crofters formed a Hebridean bulb-growers association and launched into bulb-growing as a commercial enterprise, supplying mainland hot-house growers with bulbs for forcing. Initially the economic prospects looked good as the yield per acre was high.
However, the bulbs were decimated by diseases and ravaged by pheasants, mice and slugs. Reinvigorating spent bulbs took longer than expected and markets became more difficult to find. Nowadays the only reminders of the bulb experiment are patches of daffodils growing wild in the fields.
Black and white postcard of the bulb fields at Hynish.
Postcard of the bulb fields at Hynish.
1997.243.2
Audio cassette recording of Hector MacPhail talking at Vaul Golf Club on 31/1/1997
Hector MacPhail talking at Vaul Golf Club on 31st January 1997 about Clydesdale horses on Tiree, Tom Barr, the Scottish Horse Regiment, his great-uncle Archie MacDougall, Tiree blacksmiths, shoes and clothes made on Tiree, weaving and carpentry, graveyards and tacksmen, Sir Donald MacLean, Tiree place-names, UK boxing championship Donald Lamont, shebeens and whisky distilling, peat and seaweed, emigration, fishing and Hynish pier, local boat-building.
2000.131.1
Three floppy disks with Gaelic place-names in Tiree townships.
Gaelic place-names in the Tiree townships.
2003.127.7
Postcard by Sue Anderson with a view of Traigh Bhi.
Postcard by Sue Anderson with a view of Traigh Bhi and Ben Hynish.
2003.130.3
Brochure produced by the Hebridean Trust.
Brochure produced by the Hebridean Trust with photographs of a dipping lugsail steered by Duncan MacLean, Hector and Alasdair Brown haymaking in Balephuil and a view of Hynish harbour..
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.
1999.253.3
Photocopied newspaper article about a visit to Tiree by George E. Meston in 1935.
Article about Tiree with paragraphs about the ferry and freight services, golf, the beaches, snipe shooting and bird watching, the lochs, air ambulance, the coal boats, wireless sets in Balemartine, Soroby graveyard and the Skerryvore workshops at Hynish.
1999.244.7
Photocopied notice to contractors requesting tender for road construction at East Hynish and Greenhill.
Notice to contractors requesting tender for road construction at East Hynish and Greenhill issued by the Board of Agriculture for Scotland on 14/10/1914..
2003.105.20
Colour photograph of Tiree women with samples of their baking taken in 1993.
Show of Tiree baking for TV programme `Good Morning with Ann and Nick` broadcast in 1993. L-R: Mary Davies, Crossapol; Monica Smith (behind Mary), Hynish; Flora MacDonald, Kilkenneth; Peggy Cameron, Crossapol; Elspeth Gillies, Scarinish; Bella MacKinnon, Hough; Nonaidh MacFadyen, Crossapol; unknown BBC presenter.
