Photocopied newspaper article about Captain Neil MacFadyen of Kenovay.
Article about Captain MacFadyen and others who brought the SS `Ocean Tide` safely into Murmansk after being hit by a torpedo in 1943.
1999.130.16
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1999.130.17
Photocopied newspaper article about the captain and crew of the SS `Ocean Tide`.
Article about Captain Neil MacFadyen and two engineers of the SS `Ocean Tide` who were awarded the Lloyd`s Medal for Bravery at Sea in 1944.
1999.88.2
Black and white photograph of Flora MacLean, Kenovay.
Flora MacLean, Kenovay.
2003.66.1
Black and white photograph John MacDonald, Kenovay, and Mairi Campbell.
John MacDonald of Kenovay and Mairi Campbell. (John MacDonald was an uncle of nurse Iseabal MacLean)
2003.66.2
Black and white photograph John MacDonald, Kenovay, and Mairi Campbell.
John MacDonald of Kenovay and Mairi Campbell. (John MacDonald was an uncle of nurse Iseabal MacLean)
2003.60.3
2004 Tiree calendar by Sue Anderson.
2004 Tiree calendar by Sue Anderson with recipes and postcards with views of Kenavara, Scarinish, Heanish, Caoles, Crossapol, Balevullin, Kenovay and Kilkenneth.
2003.60.4
Kenovay thatched house
Photograph of a thatched house in Kenovay in 1990.
The beautiful thatched houses of Tiree (known as ‘taighean-tugha’) are one of the island’s most distinctive features. They are simple buildings with no unnecessary, fussy details. Before 1900 almost all the buildings on the island, at least three to four hundred of them, were thatched.
After 1900, however, many traditional houses changed their roofing from thatch to tarred felt and larger, two-storey stone built or poured concrete houses funded by the Board of Agriculture became popular after the World War I.
Numbers of the traditional thatched houses have steadily declined over the last hundred years. An Argyll and Bute Council survey in 1985 found twenty-three thatched buildings on the island and today there are only ten.
Colour photograph of the thatched house in Kenovay in 1990.
Thatched house in Kenovay in 1990. (Original in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer 2)
1998.170.10
Photocopied petition dated 1893 to Argyll County Council from a group of Tiree cottars.
Petition dated 1893 to Argyll County Council from a group of cottars from Kilmoluaig, Balevullin, Sandaig, Kilkenneth, Moss, Cornaigmore, Cornaigbeg, Kenovay and Barrapol, all wanting to rent land under the Small Holdings Scotland Act of 1892.
1999.111.6
Black and white photograph of Druimfraoich, Kenovay.
Druimfraoich, Kenovay.
1998.140.1
Photocopied journal extract `The Island of Tiree` by Rev. William Reeves.
Early history of Tiree and ecclesiastic remains.