(Above) Local information card produced by Duncan Macpherson Chemist Duncan Macpherson established a pharmacy close to the ferry slipway at Kyle in 1911. As well as supplying medicines, toiletries, and photographic materials, the shop also became an unofficial tourist office. Macpherson began producing folded information cards detailing train and steamer times, events, excursions and postal… Read more »Read more

This early photograph of Sligachan was taken by Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney (1843-1920).  Abney was an inspector of science schools at the Department of Science and Art in South Kensington and carried out his own photographic research.  He was a keen traveller and often visited the Swiss and Italian Alps.  This photograph has been… Read more »Read more

This print from the Illustrated London News depicts John Macpherson (c.1835-1922) from Milovaig, Glendale, addressing a crofters’ meeting in 1884.  Skye crofters hit the news during the 1880s via a series of rent strikes and land raids organised as part of the fight for fairer land laws.  This led them into sometimes violent conflict with the… Read more »Read more

This formula book comes from the Kyle Pharmacy collection and was compiled by Duncan Macpherson (1882-1966), who came to Kyle to set up a chemist’s shop in 1911.  The railway extension from Strome Ferry was then only just over a decade old.  The formula book contains recipes for pharmacy products prepared in the shop, ranging from indigestion mixture… Read more »Read more

This notebook belonged to John Angus MacKinnon from Stenscholl in Skye and dates from 1916, when he was training as an officer during the First World War.  John Angus MacKinnon enlisted with his local territorial regiment, the 4th Cameron Highlanders, and went to France in February 1915.  He was wounded at the Battle of Festubert… Read more »Read more