Yesterday’s News No. 6 – Roads (part 1)
From a collection of historical accounts by Dr John Holliday
For continued article on Roads see 2024.9.7
2024.9.6
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2024.9.5
Yesterday’s News No. 5 – WW1 Recruitment
From a collection of historical accounts by Dr John Holliday
2024.9.4
Yesterday’s News No. 4 – Comforts for WW1 Soldiers
From a collection of historical accounts by Dr John Holliday
2024.9.3
Yesterday’s News No. 3 – Egg Production in Tiree
From a collection of historical accounts by Dr John Holliday
2024.9.2
Yesterday’s News No. 2 – Cornaig Church
From a collection of historical accounts by Dr John Holliday
2024.9.1
Yesterday’s News No. 1 – Spies
From a collection of historical accounts by Dr John Holliday
2022.25.1
Copy of the Scottish Islands Explorer magazine Aug-Sep 2022, with articles about ‘An Iodhlann: Tiree’s special heritage centre’ by Roger Butler (pp 17-20; 8 photos), and ‘Longships on the sand’ by John Randall (pp 42-43; 5 photos) about the 2nd edition of John Holliday’s book by the same title.
2021.42.1
Softback book ‘Virtue Mine Honour – Charles McLean’s War’, by John Holliday and Fiona Wilson, 2021. An account of a young RAF Pilot Officer’s life and death during WWII, based on letters home to family and friends. Charles McLean was the son of Donald Archibald McLean of Kenovay and Linlithgow.
2021.22.1
Colour photograph of Mairi MacKinnon, Parkhouse, Balephetrish having dinner at the Lodge Hotel in around 2000, with Dr John Holliday on the left.
2021.21.1
21 small pieces of bog iron iron found by Dr John Holliday at Pàirc na Coille, Balephuil, in 2021. Bog iron ore occurs naturally in wet ground associated with sand. It was refined and used by Iron Age settlers to make tools etc.
