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)
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.
Black and white photograph of J. Brown with the dinghy `Spindrift` at Scarinish harbour.
J. Brown with the dinghy `Spindrift` at Scarinish harbour.
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.
Postcard of MacDonald`s stores at Pier Road, Scarinish.
MacDonald`s Stores at Pier Road, Scarinish.
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.
John MacFadyen of Scarinish
Photograph of John MacFadyen of Scarinish in the 1950s.
Courtesy of Dr Hugh Kennedy
John MacFadyen (Iain Sheumais) of Scarinish went round the island with his pony and trap in the 1950s selling fish. He was also the piermaster at Gott Bay pier for many years.
Black and white photograph of John MacFadyen, Scarinish.
John MacFadyen (Iain Sheumais) of Scarinish who went round selling fish in the 1950s. (Original in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer1)
Black and white photograph of Scarinish harbour.
Scarinish harbour.
Black and white photograph of Scarinish.
Aerial view of Scarinish harbour and lighthouse, with the `Mary Stewart` at the extreme left. (Original in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer 1)
Newspaper article about Eilidh Kennedy`s 100th birthday.
Eilidh Kennedy`s 100th birthday with photograph of her and some of the care staff at Taigh a` Rudha.
