Colour photograph of the skiff `Passing Cloud` in Scarinish harbour in 1999.
View of the brass name plate inside the stern of the skiff `Passing Cloud` built by Malcolm MacLean at Eite in Heanish in 1944, photographed in Scarinish harbour by Mary Norton in 1999.
Colour photograph of Dr Holliday`s skiff `Ros` in Scarinish harbour in 1999.
Dr John Holliday`s skiff `Ros`, photographed in Scarinish harbour by Mary Norton in 1999.
Colour photograph of the skiffs `Ros` and `Joanne` in Scarinish harbour in 1999.
L-R: Dr John Holliday`s skiff `Ros` (green) and Lachie MacArthur`s `Joanne`, photographed in Scarinish harbour by Mary Norton in 1999.
Colour photograph of Lachie MacArthur`s skiff `Joanne` in Scarinish harbour in 1999.
Lachie MacArthur`s skiff `Joanne`, photographed in Scarinish harbour by Mary Norton in 1999.
Colour photograph of Donald Iain Kennedy`s skiff in Scarinish harbour in 1999.
Donald Iain Kennedy`s skiff, photographed in Scarinish harbour by Mary Norton in 1999.
Colour photograph of Donald Iain Kennedy`s skiff in Scarinish harbour in 1999.
View of the interior of Donald Iain Kennedy`s skiff, photographed in Scarinish harbour by Mary Norton in 1999.
Colour photograph of the remains of the `Mary Stewart` in 1999.
The remains of the schooner `Mary Stewart`, photographed in Scarinish harbour by Mary Norton in 1999.
‘Worth looking into’
Photograph taken at the old petrol pump at Scarinish in 1947.
Courtesy of Mrs Dolina MacDonald
The first petrol pump on the island was installed at the top of the pier by piermaster Kenneth MacKenzie in the late 1920s. This was removed either in the late 1930s or early 1940s. Around this time, the owner of the Scarinish Hotel, Johnny Brown, installed pumps in Scarinish village, as did the former post-mistress Maggie Robertson.
Johnny Brown sold petrol in two-gallon tins with a brass cap at a cost of 3/10½d (17p) for the petrol and tin. The pump was operated by turning a handle. The hotel was sold in 1950 to Donald Archie Cameron who installed new pumps which lasted until the late 1970s.
At first, petrol came in drums shaped like wooden barrels, as shown in this photograph. To remove dents in empty metal barrels, show-offs would ignite the petrol vapour inside by passing burning material at the end of a long stick over the bung-hole.
Black and white photograph of a man and a boy at the old petrol pump in Scarinish in 1947.
An unknown man and boy at the old petrol pump in Scarinish in 1947, titled `Worth looking into`. (Original in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer3)
Sepia photograph of Scarinish School pupils in 1936.
Scarinish School pupils in 1936. L-R: (back row) Jeanne MacFarlane; Dixon Bennett, student teacher; Angus Munn; Donald MacDonald, Heanish; Lachie MacFadyen; Donald MacLean, Scarinish; Lachie MacKinnon; John MacDonald, Scarinish; Katie Muir (Nisbet); (middle row, including two boys on left) Iseabal Campbell, Diobedal; Neil MacKinnon, Baugh; Mimi Miller; John Peter MacDonald; Annie MacFarlane, Manse; Cathie MacDonald; Mona MacDonald; Hettie MacDonald; Flora MacFarlane, Manse; Cathie Munn; Archie MacDonald (Morag Slowther’s brother; (front row) Willie MacPhee; Netta MacLean (Martin); Katie MacLean; John MacDonald; Catriona MacKinnon; Iain MacDonald (A’ Chidsin Dubh); Mary MacArthur, Balephetrish; Mary MacKinnon, Parkhouse; Donald MacDonald; Anne MacArthur; John George MacLean. (Original in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer 3)
Black and white photograph of a mare and foal outside Lighthouse View (MacFadyen`s), Scarinish.
Unknown woman with a mare and foal outside Lighthouse View in Scarinish.
