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Get the Hynish Experience at TMF!
Friday 11 – Sunday 13 July Jump aboard the TMF Shuttle Bus and enjoy a free guided tour of Hynish, including the historic Signal Tower, at 11:00am on Friday, Saturday or Sunday during TMF weekend. Shuttle Bus Timetable Depart TMF → Arrive Hynish Depart Hynish → Arrive TMF Tickets Make a Day of It We…
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Funding Success! Rural Tourism Infrastructure Fund
The Hynish Trust is delighted to announce that it has received funding through the Rural Tourism Infrastructure Fund (RTIF) to upgrade and make safe the historic Skerryvore Lighthouse Shore Station at Hynish. The planned upgrades will help preserve this unique piece of maritime history and, with the guidance of local landscaping consultant Cameron Smith, redefine…
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Skerryvore Lighthouse Studio!
Would you like to see the studio space created by the relocation of the Skerryvore Lighthouse Exhibition? In a pilot project, the Hynish Trust are inviting local artists or art organisations to hire this lovely space for a period over the summer. Please come along and have a look at 11am on Saturday the 28th…
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Calling all local artists!
The Hynish Trust is offering all local artists the opportunity to practice their craft in Morton Boyd Hall – the lovely space created by the recent relocation of the Skerryvore Exhibition. This will be a pilot project for summer 2025 – July through to mid-September. Local artists are invited to take up a designated space…
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Guided Tours
Tours run on Weds nights throught the spring and summer. Join our enthusiastic volunteers for a guided tour around the Shore Station including a visit to the Signal Tower. Meet at 6pm at Big Sky Books – which will be open from 5.30pm to 7pm! It will take approximately one hour and there is no…
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Tying the knot at Hynish!
It was wonderful to see the weather kindly supporting such an important day as Louise and Richard Cooke tied the knot on the pier last week! They moved to live in one of the Lighthouse Cottages at Hynish in December 24 and chose to have their very special wedding ceremony on the Harbour at Hynish…
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The Story Of Skerryvore Exhibition is OPEN
The Exhibition has a new home “up the road” from Morton Boyd Hall. It is in the building that Screen Argyll used for their cinema and workshops last year. There are new signs to help people find their way around. The toilet facilities are also open at Morton Boyd Hall. There is no charge for…
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Last of the Exhibition Move!
Our thanks to Graeme McColl and his family team for bringing their heavy lifting equipment to Hynish last Sunday. They moved the bell into its new position and transported the Fog Signal from Morton Boyd Hall to the new Exhibition area. No mean feat in the rain!!!!! CKR Island Construction did this work as part of their…
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Morton Boyd Hall: A Multipurpose Space Again
With the help of a wonderful team of volunteers, the Skerryvore Lighthouse Exhibition has been moved to the former site of the Treshnish Isles Exhibition, up in the Old Storehouse (which also hosted Screen Argyll in 2023). On Sunday 13th April, our team of volunteers reconstructed the exhibition, and it will be open for visitors…
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The Skerryvore Exhibition is moving!
Last Sunday (6th of April) saw a team of volunteers at Hynish dismantling the Skerryvore Exhibition and carrying it up to its new home in the Old Storehouse (previously The Treshnish Exhibition and Screen Argyll). They ensured we got the main exhibition boards moved up and the contents of the display cabinets all packed up. …