Black and white photograph of Baca Mhic Illeathain in Scarinish.
The inlet known as Baca Mhic Illeathain in Scarinish with the MacCallum`s old thatched house in the background.
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Black and white photograph of the old harbour and lighthouse, Scarinish.
The old harbour and lighthouse in Scarinish.
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Shooting party at the Scarinish Hotel around 1912
Photograph of a shooting party at the Scarinish Hotel around 1912.
Courtesy of Mr Angus MacLean
During the Victorian era and up to World War I, game shooting was a popular field sport. This photograph taken outside the Scarinish Hotel around 1912 shows a shooting party, probably attracted to Tiree by the huge numbers of common snipe.
Sir Hugh Gladstone wrote in his ‘Record Bags & Shooting Records’ of 1922 that Lord Elphinstone and a Mr J. Cobbold, who visited Tiree in the autumn of 1908 and 1909, on both occasions bagged over 1,000 snipe in ten days’ shooting.
Although shooting parties still come to Tiree in October through to January to shoot mainly geese and some snipe, their numbers are exceeded by bird-watchers keen to sight corncrakes, of which one third of the UK population can be found on the island.
Black and white photograph of a shooting party at the Scarinish Hotel.
Shooting party at the Scarinish Hotel around 1912. (Original in Filing Cabinet 2 drawer 1: 1997.178)
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Black and white photograph of Scarinish taken in 1946.
View of Scarinish in 1946 from the air looking south with the lighthouse on the extreme left.
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Black and white photograph of J. Brown with the dinghy `Spindrift` at Scarinish harbour.
J. Brown with the dinghy `Spindrift` at Scarinish harbour.
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Black and white photograph of Scarinish School in 1936.
Scarinish School in 1936. L-R: (back row) Miss Jean MacFarlane, teacher; Mr Dixon Bennett, trainee teacher; Angus Munn, Heanish; Donald MacDonald; Lachlan MacFadyen; Donald MacLean; Lachlan MacKinnon; John MacDonald; Katherine C. Nisbet, headmistress; (2nd back row) Neil MacKinnon; John Peter MacDonald; Annie MacFarlane; Cathie MacDonald; Mona MacDonald; Hetty MacDonald; Flora MacFarlane; Cathie Munn; Archibald MacDonald; (middle row, left) Isobel Campbell; Mamie Miller; (2nd front row) Netta MacLean; Katie MacLean; Catriona MacKinnon; May MacArthur; Mary MacKinnon; Anne MacArthur; (front row) Willie MacPhee; unknown; John MacDonald; Donald MacDonald; John George MacLean.
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Postcard of MacDonald`s stores at Pier Road, Scarinish.
MacDonald`s Stores at Pier Road, Scarinish.
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Balck and white photograph of the postmistress and postmen at Scarinish Post Office in 1919.
The postmistress and postmen at Scarinish Post Office in 1919. L-R: (back) Margaret Robertson, Scarinish (postmistress); Lachland MacNeill; Donald MacKechnay; Hugh Lamont, Ruaig; (front) Archie MacLean, Scarinish; Donald MacDougall, Kilmoluaig; John Munn, Baugh.
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Scarinish Post Office in 1919
Photograph of the postmistress and postmen at Scarinish Post Office in 1919.
Courtesy of Mr Angus MacLean
The postmistress, Margaret Robertson (centre right), is pictured seated beside veterinary surgeon, John MacDougall, outside the old Post Office in Scarinish which was originally established in 1802
The postal service was extremely irregular and uncertain until 1863 when mail packets were conveyed to and from Tiree at public expense. Telegraphy arrived in Tiree two years too late for reporters covering the Crofters’ War in 1886. They had to resort to carrier pigeon to send urgent despatches.
The first telephones were installed in Tiree in the mid-1920s but were restricted to official use for the transmission of telegrams. In 1941 the first public call box was installed at Crossapol for the benefit of the airfield construction workers.
Black and white photograph of the postmistress and postmen at Scarinish Post Office in 1919.
The postmistress and postmen at Scarinish Post Office in 1919. L-R: (standing) Archibald MacLean, `Bayview`, Scarinish; Donald MacDougall, Kilmoluaig; (in carriages) Hugh Lamont, Ruaig; Mary MacNeill; Jack Munn, Heanish; John MacDougall, vet; Margaret Robertson, Scarinish (postmistres); unknown; unknown. (Original photograph – 1997.178.1)
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Black and white photograph of the `Mary Stewart` beached in Scarinish harbour in 1938.
The `Mary Stewart` beached in Scarinsh harbour with lobster pots in the foreground, the Scarinish Hotel at the extreme left and communication masts in the background to the right.
