MangleUllapol Museum The mangle was a tool designed for removing water from laundry by squeezing the fabrics. Later designs also pressed and smoothed. The first known instance of using a mangle was in the mid-1400s but they were still widely used up into the twentieth...
Model of a ‘Zulu’ Fishing BoatUllapol Museum In the late 1800s Scotland experienced a herring fishing boom. Herring was considered a delicacy in Europe and Russia and in great demand. Ullapool was one of many Scottish coastal ports and villages that became a hive of...
Perkins Brailler MachineUllapool Museum In 1951, David Abraham worked as a woodworking teacher at the Perkins school for the blind and wanted the students to have better equipment to write braille with. His solution was the Perkins Brailler. The device allows users...
Vitrified Rock from Dun LagaidhUllapool Museum This small piece of rock may not look very special, but it is actually from the fort of Dun Lagaidh. Around the twelfth century, Dun Lagaidh was refortified from a simple wooden fort to a stone Dun. Dun Lagaidh appears...
Anaesthetic MaskUllapool Museum Before anaesthetics were routinely used to sedate patients for operations, surgery was an even more traumatic affair than it can be today. Historically, patients may have been given alcohol to soothe them or may even have attempted...
