Printout of webpage about emergency wireless telegraphy services to the Hebrides in the 1920s.
Account by David D Murdoch of working in Tiree with the Wireless Telegraphy Section of the British Post Office in the 1920s.
1998.258.1
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Dates: 1920s
1999.88.4
Black and white photograph of the MacEachern family of Cornaigbeg.
MacEachern family of Cornaigbeg in 1924. L-R: (back) Peggy MacEachern; Flora Campbell, wife of Hugh; Mary MacEachern, mother of Hugh, Archie, Janet and Mary Margaret; (middle) Hugh MacEachern; Hugh Campbell, chemist; Granny (bean a` ghobhainn); Mary`s husband John MacEachern; Archie MacEachern; (front) Janet MacEachern (m.s. Wilson) and Mary Margaret MacEachern.
1998.209.2
1998.209.3
1998.243.1
Photocopied front page of publication `Autumn Leaves, Vol 38, No. 1, January 1925.
First page of a story `Footprints of One Bonnie Scotch Lassie` with an introduction by Sister M Walker, based on the recollections of Flora MacDougall of Balemartine.
1998.208.3
Photocopied newspaper obituary for Gordon Donald.
Obituary for Gordon Donald of Vaul, 1929-1988.
1998.199.1
Photocopied newspaper article about Lord Bannerman of Kildonan.
Extract from `The Memoirs of Lord Bannerman of Kildonan` who spent his school holidays in Tiree with his grandparents.
1998.203.1
Paperback book `From Tiree to New Zealand
The memoirs of Dugald Lamont from Balemartine
1999.174.8
Black and white photograph of the Barr family.
The Barr family at Auchneel in 1920. L-R: (back) Netta, Jessie, Rob, Jeanie, John, (front) Alex and Tom.
1999.114.6
Black and white photograph of the gravestone of Hector Lamont, 1891-1939.
Gravestone of Shipmaster Hector Lamont,1891-1939, who died on board the SS `Ormer` at Suez in 1939.
