Dates: 1930s

2002.160.1

Audio cassette recording of Hugh Archie MacCallum interviewed by Maggie Campbell on 28/9/2002.

Hugh Archie MacCallum talks to Maggie Campbell in September 2002 about the Cornaigbeg crofts, the crofters’ names and patronymics; old and new methods of farming, seaweed and its uses, cattle shows; shebeens, shops, cobblers, the grocer’s horse-drawn van; the old schoolhouse at Cornaig and the United Free Church at Whitehouse; the evil eye; the shipwreck of the Malve during World War I. Eòghann Èairdsidh ’Ic Chaluim a’ bruidhinn ri Magaidh Chaimbeul anns an t-Sultain 2002 mu croitean Chòrnaig Bhige, ainmean agus sloinneadhan nan croitearan, dòighean sean agus ùr air croitearachd, feamainn, fèill cruidh, shebeens, bùthan, greasaichean, carbad bùtha air a tharraing le each, an t-seann sgoil Chòrnaig agus an Eaglais Shaor aig an Taigh Gheal, an droch shùil, am Malve a chaidh air na sgeirean aig àm a’ Cheud Chogadh.

1997.207.1

Medical equipment from Tiree Airport.

Medical equipment found at Tiree Airport, consisting 4 tourniquets, 1 corkscrew (1960), 1 urinometer, 2 x 4oz cotton wool (1952), 2 magnifying glasses, ether masks, airways, needle holder (1959), assorted catgut ampoules size 0.1, aromatic ammonia capsules, standard dressing no. 9, 2 standard dressings no. 12 (1945), Enflavine dressing no. 12, 3 shell dresssings (1944), dibromopropamidine cream, eye solution no. 1, finger dressing, sterliser with burner, 2 blood administration sets, 6 chloroform ampoules (1939; empty), 2 silkworm gut.