Founder of the Scottish Mountain Heritage Collection, Mick Tighe, ran a mountain guiding company called Nevis Guides in the 1980’s/90’s and early 2000’s. He was an ex-Royal Marine and for many years another ex-marine, Bill Newton, worked with Mick as a fellow Mountain Guide. Mick and Bill borrowed a few things from the Marines when they left and there’s an excellent example here in the collection – a tin for storing grenade fuses. The marines had worked out early on that these fuse tins made excellent cooking pots, and Nevis Guides had several of them – this one survived. Mick remembers two young female, peace campaigners attending one of his courses back in the 1980’s – they were horrified to learn that they’d cooked their dinner in a grenade tin! The pot handle was pillaged elsewhere.