Article in Oban Times 1911 about the annual business meeting of the Scarinish Library Committee
Copy of an article published in the Oban Times on 5th Aug 1911 about the annual business meeting of the Scarinish Library Committee held within the Reading Room of the library. Chaired by Mr Hugh MacDonald, postmaster, secretary and librarian. Also present: Mr MacDiarmid, factor, Rev. D. MacPherson and Mr Kenneth MacKenzie, Scarinish. Mentions death of Dr. Buchanan.
Going to salute the flag at Island House
Photograph of Hugh MacDiarmid leading a group of people to salute the flag at Island House in 1920.
Courtesy of Mr John Watson
In this photograph taken in 1920, Hugh MacDiarmid is leading a large group of over a hundred men, women and children to salute the flag at Island House.
What the event was is uncertain but judging from other photographs in An Iodhlann’s collections, it was a day of celebration with a piper in attendance and a picnic for the children. Everyone is dressed in their best clothes, although some of the children have bare feet.
Originally from Perthshire, Hugh MacDiarmid was appointed sub-factor for Argyll Estates in Tiree after the retiral of John Campbell in 1876. He died in May 1928 at Island House aged eighty-two.
Black and white photograph of Hugh MacDiarmid at Island House in 1920.
Hugh MacDiarmid leads a large group of over a hundred men, women and children to salute the flag at Island House in 1920. What the event was is uncertain but judging from photograph C33, it was a day of celebration with a piper in attendance and a picnic for the children. Everyone is dressed in their best clothes, although some of the children have bare feet.
Originally from Perthshire, Hugh MacDiarmid was appointed sub-factor for Argyll Estates in Tiree after the retiral of John Campbell in 1876. He died in May 1928 at Island House aged eighty-two.
Photocopied copy of a letter dated 15/10/1912 from Tom Barr to the factor Hugh MacDiarmid.
Letter dated 15/10/1912 from Tom Barr of Balephetrish to the factor Hugh MacDiarmid complaining that the tenants of Gott are not fulfilling the terms of their agreement.
Photocopied letter to Lord Archibald Campbell dated 22/9/1899 from Hugh MacDiarmid (Bundle 924).
Letter to Lord Archibald Campbell dated 22/9/1899 from Hugh MacDiarmid about a sword found by drainers several feet under the surface of a drained loch, Loch an Duin, in Moss, with attached photograph (poor).
Photocopied newspaper article about Tiree.
Local news about the good weather, visitors enjoying Vaul links, the chairman of the new school board: Hugh MacDiarmid, lambs, the pier works, acting mate J MacKinnon of Vaul who is to sail for Ontario and visits to boarded-out children by Mr MacInnes of the Glasgow Parish Council.
Photocopied newspaper article about Tiree.
Local news about the dinner for the pier contractors employees at Scarinish Hotel provided by Lord Archibald Campbell and the speech given Lady Frances Balfour.
Photocopied letter dated 26/2/1909 from Donald MacFadyen to Hugh MacDiarmid.
Letter dated 26/2/1909 from Donald MacFadyen on behalf of the Free Church Congregation on Tiree to factor Hugh MacDiarmid asking for a church site at the sea shore on Gott Bay. (bundle 2522)
Black and white photograph of Meta Dunford Wood nee MacDiarmid.
Meta Dunford Wood nee MacDiarmid, daughter of estate factor Hugh MacDiarmid, photographed by Scarinish harbour in the mid-20th century.
Photocopied journal of Lord Lorne dated 23-28/4/1884.
The journal of Lord Lorne written during a visit to Tiree 23-28/4/1884 and in the form of a letter to the 8th Duke of Argyll.
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Photocopied newspaper cutting about local news on Tiree in 1912.
Local news about harvesting, teachers` examinations, the Rev. D. MacPherson, the death by drowning of Archibald MacDonald aged 25 of Balemartine and Tiree School Board.
