Lump of ‘sea coal’ found at Port a’ Mhuilinn, Hynish (grid ref. NL 97995 38780), from one of two shipwrecks, either the coal puffer ‘Regina’ 1872 (Canmore ID# 256038), or the cargo steam ship ‘Marchioness of Lorne’ 1875.
2018.54.1
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Township: hynish
2018.47.1
2018.8.1
List of many of the workers employed during construction of the Skerryvore Lighthouse and onshore base at Hynish in 1841. Compiled by a descendant of one of the workers. Incomplete.
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2017.8.6
Round grey basalt cobble from Happy Valley, Hynish.
2017.70.4
Memoirs of Alistair MacNeill, Hynish, ‘They were our Vital Sparks’ which recall his fascination with the coal puffers that visited Hynish to off-load coal and other goods during the 1950s. The puffers also took away bundles of kelp for processing on the mainland.
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2017.70.3
Memoirs of Alistair MacNeill, Hynish, ‘Wireless in my Life’ which recall his enjoyment of, and involvement in, wireless radio from his childhood in Hynish in 1941 to presenting a live broadcast from the Emirates Arena Glasgow during the run-up to the Commonwealth Games in 2014.
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2017.70.2
Memoirs of Alistair MacNeill, Hynish, ‘Those were the Games’ which recall his years on the Scottish Highland Games circuit, 1954-1972, when he was the only Gaelic speaker competing throughout Scotland.
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2017.39.11
Black & white photograph of grave markers in the old graveyard at Soroby in the 1950s. The graves are of servicemen buried after WWII but before gravestones were erected. The three gracves to the right and just beyond the service graves belong to the Campbell family of Millport House, Hynsih.
2017.39.10
Black & white photograph of Sandy Campbell, Hynish, sitting on a rock in the 1950s.
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Black & white photograph of (L-R) Sandy Campbell and Tommy Thomson at Millport House, Hynish, in the 1950s.
