Intricately hand-carved, ornate, wooden picture frame from Lodge Farm, Kirkapol. Probably made by a local during one of Lady Victoria Campbell’s woodworking classes in around 1900.
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2022.1.4
Typed letter to Miss Elsie MacKinnon, Lodge Farm, Kirkapol, inviting her to a Social Evening and Dance in April 1945, to be organised by RAF Tiree’s 31 Embarkation Unit.
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Letter from the Ministry of Labour and National Service to Elsie MacKinnon, Lodge Farm, Kirkapol, dated 8 Sep 1941, exempting her from being transferred to work elsewhere (to support the war effort;) due to her “work on the farm”.
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2022.1.1
Handwritten letter from the Rev James Taylor, Baptist minister, dated 20 Sep 1947, and addressed to “Dear Brother in the Lord”. He begins by discussing the weather and its affect on grass growth, followed by reflecting on lessons of the Bible. From Lodge Farm, Kirkapol.
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Black and white portrait photograph of Rev James Taylor, Baptist minister.
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Information about Tiree’s ancient and forgotten golf courses at Kirkapol, Vaul, Scarinish, Cornaigmore and Barrapol. Donated by Harry Ward, author of Forgotten Greens, 2019.
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A transcript of a report made to the Tobermory Procurator Fiscal by Lachlan Lamont (Kirkapol) in which he complains of the theft of a sum of money from his waistcoat.
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From the liveArgyll Archives in Lochgilphead, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
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Softback book ‘Forgotten Greens’ by Harry Ward, 2019, about the abandoned golf courses of Scotland. Tiree’s golf courses at Balinoe, Cornaigmore, Heylipol, Kirkapol, Scarinish and Vaul are included on pages 111-112. Signed for An Iodhlann by the author.
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Colour photograph of Mairi MacKinnon, Parkhouse, Balephetrish having dinner at the Lodge Hotel in around 2000, with Dr John Holliday on the left.
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Black & white photograph of Medieval skeletons in two burial pits discovered during excavation work at Kirkapol Parish Church.
