Colour photograph of Iain MacDonald of Skipinnish Tours in July 2004.
Iain MacDonald of Skipinnish Tours on board the Scimitar on route for Skerryvore in July 2004.
2004.118.7
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2004.118.8
Colour photograph of Angus MacPhail in July 2004.
Angus MacPhail playing the pipes on board the Scimitar of Skipinnish Tours on route to Skerryvore lighthouse in July 2004.
2004.118.9
Colour photograph of the view of Tiree from Skerryvore.
The view of Tiree from Skerryvore photographed while aboard the Scimitar of Skipinnish Tours in July 2004.
2004.96.1
Bill Innes talking about Captain David Barclay
Sound clip in English of former airline pilot Bill Innes talking about Captain David Barclay.
Courtesy of Mr Bill Innes
Former airline pilot Bill Innes tells a humorous anecdote about Captain David Barclay, MBE, during an illustrated talk about the pioneers of Scottish aviation held in An Talla, Tiree on 5th July 2004.
The name David Barclay is synonymous with the development of aviation in the Western Isles and with the Scottish Air Ambulance Service. He flew his first ambulance flight with Northern & Scottish Airways in 1935 and at the end of his career had flown more than two thousand ambulance missions.
He was awarded the MBE in 1942 and invested with the order of St John of Jerusalem in 1950. Much loved and well respected by those who knew him, Captain Barclay retired in April 1965 with an overwhelming send-off from islanders in Barra and Tiree.
2004.91.1
Two old men over a hundred
Sound clip in English of Angus MacLean telling a humorous anecdote about two old men over a hundred.
Courtesy of Mr Angus MacLean
In a discussion about families living in Caoles in 1881 recorded by Dr John Holliday in June 2004, Angus MacLean of Scarinish tells a humorous anecdote about two old men in Caoles to Alasdair Sinclair and Duncan Grant.
At the time of the story, the two men – Iain MacLean and Ruaraidh MacDonald – were both over a hundred years old. Caoles was mainly unfenced and, despite his age, Iain’s job was to keep the animals within the township boundaries and out of the crops. This was not without precedent.
The Statistical Account of the 1790s recorded ten islanders over ninety and one over a hundred. ‘The Tiry-man above 100, was allowed to be 106, at his death, in spring last. Except for the last 7 years he supported himself and wife by herding. His liveliness appeared to the last, not only by walking but dancing.’
2004.91.2
Mini-disk recording of Angus MacLean, Scarinish talking to Dr John Holliday in June 2004.
Angus MacLean of Scarinish talking to Dr John Holliday in June 2004 about Caoles families in the 1881 census, with Duncan Grant and Alasdair Sinclair.
2001.79.2
Dr John Holliday
Photograph of Dr John Holliday outside the surgery at Baugh in 1988.
Courtesy of D.C. Thomson & Co Ltd, © 1988
This photograph of Dr John Holliday, used with kind permission of D.C. Thomson & Co Ltd, was taken outside the surgery at Baugh in 1988 for an article in the ‘Sunday Post’ about Tiree’s GP. The island is just over eleven miles long and he very rarely used his bicycle to visit patients!
Dr. Holliday came to Tiree in 1986 from Kintore, a remote Aboriginal community in the Western Desert of Australia where he was the only doctor in an area the size of Germany. The Pintupi Homeland Health Service was controlled by the local people, and the doctor and local healer, or ngangkari, worked closely together.
As in other remote areas in Scotland, Tiree’s GPs have also worked single-handedly. A new surgery was built at Baugh in 2000 and a second half-time doctor was appointed in 2004 to help care for the island’s seven hundred and twenty patients.
Black and white photograph of Dr John Holliday in 1988 by the Sunday Post.
Dr John Holliday with his bicycle photographed outside the surgery at Baugh in 1988 by the Sunday Post.
2004.70.7
Colour photograph of Charlie Self`s thatched house in Kilmoluaig taken in April 2004.
The doorway of Charlie Self`s thatched house in Kilmoluaig photographed by Dr John Holliday in April 2004. The house was renovated by Charlie himself.
2004.70.8
Colour photograph of a burnt fishing boat at Milton taken in April 2004.
The burnt remains of one of the six fishing boats destroyed by fire at Milton harbour on 20/3/2004 photographed by Dr John Holliday in April 2004.
2004.70.9
Colour photograph of burnt fishing boats at Milton taken in April 2004.
The remains of two fishing boats destroyed by a fire at Milton harbour on 20/3/2004 photographed by Dr John Holliday in April 2004.
