Tag Archives: individual contests

2003.184.30

The long jump

Photograph of the long jump at the Agricultural Show sports in 1927.

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Courtesy of Mr Ronnie MacLean

The long jump at the Agricultural Show sports day in Scarinish. This picture is from a small photograph album from Silversands in Vaul titled ‘1927’.

Black and white photograph of the long jump at the 1927 agricultural show.

The long jump at the 1927 Tiree Show sports in Scarinish, from a small photograph album from Silversands in Vaul titled 1927.

2003.161.10

Playing golf at Vaul

Photograph of unknown couple playing golf at Vaul in the 1920s or early 1930s.

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Courtesy of Mr Ronnie MacLean

This photograph of an unknown couple playing golf was found in a small hand-made album titled ‘Idle Days’ from Silversands in Vaul. It probably dates from the 1920s or early 1930s.

A golf course existed in Vaul as long ago as the 1890s. In 1911 an eighteen-hole course, 6,306 yards long, was laid out with the help of a professional golfer, James Hobbins, who married a Tiree woman. In September a club house was gifted by Mr Charles MacNeil of the Colonial Iron Works in Govan.

Before World War II, Tiree was a very popular golfing resort. There were eighteen-hole courses at Vaul, Scarinish and Heanish and a nine-hole course at Cornaig. All were closed during the war and only the Vaul course was brought back into use in 1962 with nine holes.

Black and white photograph of an unknown couple playing golf from a small album from Silversands.

Hugh MacIntyre, Vaul (d. 1932) and possibly his wife Mary of Balinoe (d.1928) playing golf in the 1920s. The photo was titled `Aig iomain` (playing) in a small album from Silversands, Vaul, titled `Idle Days` probably dating from the 1920s to early 1930s.

1997.265.104

Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 67, 22/9/1993.

Local news including the decision of the hall committee to keep under-14s out of licenced dances, the new CalMac summer timetable, AIE`s investment of £193,000 in Tiree, lamb and cattle sales, book fair, Kilkenneth 5 by Sandy MacKinnon, article about baker Gavin Carter, the weather and news from the school`s chess club.

1997.265.106

Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 69, 3/11/1993.

Local news including a reply from the hall committee to Sandy MacKinnon`s letter, the accident black spot at Baugh, an extra air ambulance stationed at Glasgow, this year`s Wave Classic, the botanical survey of Tiree, the Duke of Edinburgh`s Award Scheme, the weather and news from the golf club, the Gaelic Partnership, Tiree Association, the gardening and youth clubs.

1999.74.2

Cutting the ham

Photograph of a Regatta Sports Day in the 1930s.

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Courtesy of Mr Duncan MacInnes

The aim of the sport was that the participant would be blindfolded and given a knife, the ham would be swung around on a rope above them, and they would have to try to cut the rope so that the ham would fall.

Black and white photograph of Tiree regatta sports.

Cutting the ham at a Regatta Sports Day in the 1930s.