The Lismore Agricultural show has a long very impressive history. John David MacColl, the last secretary of the Lismore Agricultural Society, carefully preserved its archive in a tin box after the Society’s activities stopped around the time of WW2. In due...
The following is an excerpt from the most recent newsletter of the Scottish Records Association. written by Lismore Archivist Dr Robert Hay. The Isle of Lismore Historical Society was founded in the 1990s by a group of residents who were concerned that so much of the...
Lismore was late in getting a 6 day postal service and sometimes had to fight to keep it. Now that drones are flying about and relief local posties are no more, knowing the past may help if/when we have to fight again . Four families have featured in our early postal...
We have received several interesting newspaper cuttings from John Tozeland in Lismore NSW Australia. He has also published articles about Lismore in his Lismore CBD Magazine. The interacting between the island and Lismore NSW has been ongoing for several decades. Many...
At any time, most of the collections are in storage, with a minority on display. However, the curators are very keen to give access to the collections by the public and, given 48 hours notice, they can deliver most of the items for study by amateur and professional....
Even at the best of times, most of the Lismore objects and documents that CELM has collected are in store. We can display only a few items each year but the CELM directors are committed to increase access, especially in these months of Covid lockdown. We are doing...
Report on the Completion of the Project “funded by grants from Museums Galleries Scotland and the Association of Independent Museums (Pilgrim Trust) The museum in Lismore Heritage Centre risked losing its Accredited Status because of its cramped and inadequate...
Fishing Net Buoy (LISDD:2017. 236). Radius of leather buoy (distorted) around 15cm. Wooden disc radius 9cm, thickness 3.6cm. This object is one of many from Lismore, looked after by the Balnagown/ Balimakillichan MacColls, and generously given by the family to...
John David MacColl, the last secretary of the Lismore Agricultural Society, carefully preserved its archive in a tin box after the Society's activities stopped around the time of WW2. In due course, his son, Archie, kindly presented the box to Comann Eachdraidh Mor...
The Lighthouse Telescope (LISDD:2018.238) Alexander Adie (1775-1859) was a leading instrument maker, supplying high-quality lenses from his Princes Street shop to famous scientists, including Joseph Hooker, Charles Darwin and David Brewster. He was also optician to...
Achinduin Castle in the south west of Lismore was built around 1300 by the MacDougalls, who were the dominant family in the West at that time. It is one of a chain of stone castles by which they controlled the coastline of Argyll, from Dunstaffnage to Lismore and the...
The object collection includes two gramophones/record players, which played an important part in the social life of the island. Wind-up Grafonolas, designed to play 78rpm disc records (mostly shellac), were made in England by the Columbia Graphophone Company from the...