Black and white photograph of the Reading Room taken in 1940-1.
The Reading Room at Scarinish in 1940 or 1941.
2007.18.1
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2007.18.2
Black and white photograph of the rear of Reading Room taken in 1941.
The Temporary Repeater Station and Radio Hut on the left and the rear of the Reading Room on the right in 1941.
2006.166.1
Copied photograph of Catriona MacLean (Catriona Sheumais) of Vaul standing outside the original Scarinish lighthouse in the 1940s, before its renovation.
2006.164.4
Black & white photograph of the ferryboat approaching the steamer off Scarinish in the late 19th or early 20th centuries.
Courtesy of Mrs Mary Cameron
Before Gott Bay pier was completed in 1913, passengers, livestock and cargo had to be ferried by rowboat between Scarinish harbour and the steamer anchored offshore in deeper water, a somewhat hazardous journey in bad weather.
This photograph of the tender approaching the steamer was taken on a calm day in the late 19th or early 20th centuries. The service was operated for many years by Archibald MacKinnon (Èardsaidh ’ic Eòghainn) without serious accident.
The substantial building in the centre background is the store at Scarinish; the one on the left is the school. Between the two lay the Reading Room, now An Iodhlann, where passengers awaited the arrival of the steamer.
2006.139.2
Copied postcard of Scarinish.
Postcard with a view of Scarinish from the south.
2006.139.4
Copied postcard of Scarinish harbour.
Postcard of Scarinish harbour.
2006.116.1
Photocopied article `Scarinish & Upper Balinoe` by Derek Clarke.
Article published in the Journal of the N Gauge Society, no. 6, 2005, about a model railway built by Derek Clarke in Scarinish, for which he was awarded the PECO CUP in 2006.
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2006.110.1
The curragh ‘Brendan’ at Gott Bay pier in 1976
Photograph of the curragh ‘Brendan’ at Gott Bay pier in 1976.
Courtesy of Mr Simon Latham
In 1976 Tim Severin and four companions set sail in a wood and leather curragh from the west coast of Ireland in a re-creation of the 6th century voyage of St Brendan the Navigator across the Atlantic via the Hebrides, Faroes and Iceland.
St Brendan is credited as the builder of a church and village ‘in the region of Heth’. ‘Heth regio’ and ‘terra Ethica’ are Latin translations of the Old Irish ‘tir Iath’ from which the modern name of Tiree is most probably derived.
In ‘Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae’ it is recorded that ‘in the sixth century St Breandan [sic] built a church at Kirkapol…’ The saint may have preached from a rock at Vaul named ‘Creag O Briundainn’, which overlooks a small natural amphitheatre called ‘Glac nan Salm’ (Hollow of the Psalms).
Colour photograph of the currach `Brendan` at Tiree pier in 1976.
The currach `Brendan` at Tiree pier photographed by Simon Latham in 1976. (For more information see `The Brendan Voyage`, 2000.185.3)
2006.105.1
Box containing 110 photographic slides taken by Alex MacLeod of Hough in the 1970s. Includes people of Hough, Scarinish Harbour, archaeological sites, houses in Hough, Coop van and GPO van, plane, agriculture, Cattle Show and landscapes. Also one of the Coll boat that met the steamer. Some printed and accessioned separately.
2006.96.2
Six postcards of Tiree by Sue Anderson.
Six postcards of Tiree by Sue Anderson: felt-roof house; windsurfing; four views including the broch and ringing stone; Scarinish harbour; the Clansman at the pier; sunrise over Scarinish harbour.