Hardback book `County of Argyll Sheep Marks` compiled by Major W. D. Allan, 1926.
Description of the horn brands, ear and keel marks used throughout Argyll to identify sheep, compiled by the Chief Constable of Argyll; attached letter dated 1952 giving the identification marks for Ulva.
Paperback book `Na Nuadh Bhatichean` by Ailean Boyd.
Illustrated history of the MacBrayne fleet from 1928-1964 in Gaelic and English
Day School Certificate for Higher Education.
Day School Certificate for Higher Education awarded to Mary MacEachern (Mairi Brady) of Cornaigbeg in 1929.
Daily Record Diploma of Merit.
Daily Record Diploma of Merit awarded to Hugh MacEachern of Cornaigbeg for proficiency in the Scottish National Scholarship Competition in 1926.
Admissions Register for Ruaig School 1919-1969, giving date of admission, pupils’ full name and date of birth, name of parent or guardian, relationship, address, name of last school, date of leaving, and cause of leaving or where gone. Birth dates range from 1911 to 1963. Lists the previous schools of 76 boarded-out children. Includes four separate daily registers for years ending July 1967, 68, 69 and 70, recorded by teacher J M McFarlane, and miscellaneous other papers.
This, and all other school admission registers that we held, has now been returned to Argyll & Bute Council archives
Transcription of an extract from ‘A Winter on Tiree’ by Isobel Wylie Hutchison. Originally published in Blackie’s Girls’ Annual, c.1920-1921
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Born in 1889 in Kirkliston near Edinburgh, Isobel Wylie Hutchison became a respected film-maker, author and poet. While travelling in the Hebrides in 1920, she decided to spend a winter on Tiree. However, due to the vagaries of the weather and the mail-boat, it was a month before she reached the island.
She found lodgings in Ruaig and became involved in the life of the local Primary School. Her love of plants prompted an experiment in bulb-growing which presaged the Hebridean Bulb-growers Association by thirty years. Her subsequent travels took her to Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Alaska and the Aleutian islands.
A fellow of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, she was awarded the Mungo Park Medal in 1934 ‘in recognition of outstanding contributions to geographical knowledge through exploration.’ She wrote several travel books including ‘North to the Rime-Ringed Sun’ and ‘Stepping Stones from Alaska to Asia’, and four volumes of poetry.
Copied Register of Admissions for Ruaig School, 1919-1969.
Register of Admissions for Ruaig School, 1919-1969, giving pupils date of birth, name of parent or guardian, address, name of last school, date of leaving, and cause of leaving or where gone.
This, and all other school admission registers that we held, has now been returned to Argyll & Bute Council archives
Framed black and white photograph of Mod silver medallist Peggy Campbell in 1923.
Framed photograph of silver medallist Peggy Campbell at the Inverness Mod in 1923. Peggy was born on 28th September 1907, the daughter of Niall Sinclair Campbell, one of the founder members of the Tiree Association. (Copy photo in binder Photographs J100-199)
Framed 1923 Mod certifcate.
Framed certifcate for 1st prize for `Priomh sheinn orain` by Peggy S. Campbell at the 1923 Mod in Inverness.
