Photograph Album No 188: Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Argyllshire Mackenzie of Colonsay Albums 1870 - vol.3 (cf PAs 186 and 187).
PA 188
Description Photograph Album No 188: Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Argyllshire Mackenzie of Colonsay Albums 1870 - vol.3 (cf PAs 186 and 187).
Collection General Collection. Photograph Albums.
Catalogue Number PA 188
Category All Other
Scope and Content These albums were owned by Revd. JB Mackenzie, minister of Colonsay 1861-72 and of Kenmore 1872-1911. They contain large, high quality photographs taken in the late 1860s and early 1870s and were at one time in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries. Many of them show rock formations on Colonsay and carved stones there and at Oronsay, Keills, Loch Swyn and other locations in Knapdale. At one cross at Keills a man with a gun is posed beside a lady with a small coggie and four sheep. There is a view of the village and ruins of Kilmory, Point of Knap with a man sitting on an upturned basket with a rather blurred horse. Other ruins at Ealan Naomh include “an oven-shaped building locally regarded as the tomb of St. Columba’s mother.” Other views include Caol Isla distillery with sailing boats and a steamer; Port Askaig with a paddle steamer; a farmhouse near Castle Swyn; the manse and church at North Knapdale; Carnassary and Kilmartin Castles; Kilmartin Inn; Colonsay church and manse and the schoolhouse; Kilchrenan manse, 1871, the church and the village and Cruachan, and cattle and prize-winning bulls at Kiloran in 1869. Several photographs are of family graves at Kilchrenan as follows:- • One of these was erected by John Williams, Merchant in Campsie, in affectionate remembrance of Margaret Crawford Mackenzie his wife, who died at Kilchrenan manse on 10th August 1861 aged 22. • Beside it is the grave of Elizabeth Mackenzie who died at Kilchrenan on 17th December 1864 aged 61. • There is also the small grave of Edward Bethell Codrington, only son of Colonel Codrington, Coldstream Guards and Mary his wife, born 29th September 1845, accidently drowned in Loch Awe at Sonachan House on 15th August 1853. At Kenmore there are pictures of the village, some showing a large tent in the main street, the porch of a Mr. Dunn’s house and a celtic bell at Fortingall manse. There are also many standing portraits of family and friends and groups of children – Oban Sunday School teachers and pupils at Crinan; Kenmore Sunday School, and boys’ bugle bands. Two of the most striking pictures are of a diver at Dalerb slip at Kenmore, one wearing his helmet and another without it. He is accompanied by four men bearing tools and hose-pipes and is obviously preparing to dive in Loch Tay. Tucked into one of the albums is an advertisement for a new method of photo-mechanical printing, the Albertype, invented by Joseph Albert of Munich, which was presented to subscribers to “Photographic News” on 24th September 1869.
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