Audio cassette recording of John Fletcher of Balemartine talking to Maggie Campbell in January 2001.
John Fletcher of Balemartine talks to Maggie Campbell in January 2001 about growing up in Balemartine, the people of Balemartine, Mannal and Hynish, the teachers at Balemartine School, the weather over the years, fishing when he was a boy, how fish was dried and the work involved in milking cows; John also tells a few stories about people he knew as a boy and one story about a dog fish remedy.
Video recording BB2 programme about Tiree houses broadcast in November 2003.
BBC2 programme in Gaelic with English subtitles about buildings in Tiree – An Turas, thatched and felt roofed houses, the old steading at the Glebe, nissen huts and the Scarinish lighthouse – featuring Mabel MacArthur of Sandaig, Flora MacPhail in Balevullin, Wilie MacLean of Balinoe, Cathy MacNeill and John George Maclean of Scarinish and John Fletcher of Balemartine.
Audio cassette recording of John Fletcher, Balemartine, interviewed by Maggie Campbell on 8/2/2003.
John Fletcher of Balemartine talks to Maggie Campbell in March 2003 about different methods of domestic lighting, such as oil lamps, Chinese lanterns and Tilley lamps, their use and maintenance, before electricity came to Tiree in the mid-1950s; also the use of dog-fish liver oil in the cure of ringworm and scurvy. Tha Iain Fletcher a Baile Mhartainn a’ bruidhinn ri Magaidh Chaimbeul ann am Mart 2003 mu dòighean soillse de gach seòrsa ann an dachaigh mar làmpa ola, làmpa Shìna agus làmpa Tilley, am feum agus an dòigh air an cumail an òrdugh mun dh’ thàinig an dealan do Thiriodh anns na leth-ceudan, cuideachd feum ola grùthan a’ bhearaich airson leighis buaileag-thimchill agus an t-achas tioram.
Audio cassette recording of John Fletcher, Balemartine, interviewed by Maggie Campbell on 8/2/2003.
John Fletcher of Balemartine talks to Maggie Campbell in February 2003 about coffin-making on Tiree, people who made them – Calum Iain Chaluim of Balemartine and Sandaidh Chailean Bhàn of Hynish – and the nameplates, the wood and other materials used, caithris na h-oidhche to guard against body-snatching, grave-digging, burials, closing and dressing the grave and tending the graveyard. Iain Mac an Fhleisdeir a’ bruidhinn ri Mairead Caimbeul anns An Gearran 2003 mu dheidhinn cùisean co-cheangailte ri bàs – na daoine a bhitheadh a’ dèanamh na cisteachan-laighe (Calum Iain Chaluim o Baile Mhartainn agus Sandy Chalein Bhàn o Haoidhnis), am fiodh agus an stuth eile a bhitheadh iad a cleachdadh, caithris na h-oidhche, cladhach na liochd, dòighean tòrradh agus tiodhlacadh, dùineadh agus càradh na liochd agus na daoine a bhitheadh a’ coimhead as dèidh an cladh.
Audio cassette recording of John MacKinnon, Kilmoluaig, and John Fletcher, Balemartine, interviewed by Maggie Campbell on 2/112002.
John MacKinnon (Iain Aonghais) of Kilmoluaig and John Fletcher (Iain Chaluim) of Balemartine talk to Maggie Campbell in November 2002 about the Hynish complex built by the Lighthouse Commission, the names and genealogy of the people who lived there, the work involved in its renovation, the earlier water sources, the scales and weighing of stone blocks taken by boat to Skerryvore during its construction and the skill of Alan Stevenson. Tha Iain Aonghais a Cillmoluaig agus Iain an Fhleisteir a Baile Mhàrtainn a’ bruidhinn ri Magaidh Chaimbeul anns an t-Samhain 2002 mu obair na togalaichean ann an Haoidhnis a bha air an togail aig Ùghdarras nan Taighean Solus, ainmean agus an sloinntearachd aig na daoine a bha fuireach an sin, an obair a bha co-cheangailte ris an nuadhachadh, màthair-uisge roimhe seo, tomhas agus cudthrom nan clachan a bha air an toir a mach gun Sgeir Mhòr ann am bata aig an àm a’ togail agus sgil Alain Steapanach.
