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
Copied photograph of Catriona MacLean (Catriona Sheumais) of Vaul standing outside the original Scarinish lighthouse in the 1940s, before its renovation.
Audio cassette recording of Leo Crowther`s memories of wartime Tiree.
Leo Crowther, a former Warrant Officer in 281 Squadron, talks about his experiences on Tiree where he was posted during 1944-5. (Second master copy in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer 4)
Collection of papers relating to the Tiree Heavy Horse Breeding Society.
Three letters, four receipts and the minutes of one meeting relating to the Tiree Heavy Horse Breeding Society. John MacLean of the Brae, Cornaigbeg was the Secretary of the Society
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
Photograph of Squadron Leader Preston-Potts and his wife.
Courtesy of Ms Annabelle MacNeill
The Station Commander of the RAF base on Tiree between 1943 and 1945 was Squadron Leader Preston-Potts. A fighter pilot who had been injured in the Battle of Britain, he was left with a burned face and had to travel regularly to the mainland for treatment.
He was quite fearless and won a pilots’ bet as to who could fly lowest over the Officers’ Mess; he flew so low he cut the telegraph wires with the wheels of his plane. Once he swam out to defuse a mine bobbing offshore.
A great lover of speed, he would career along the narrow Tiree roads in an open-top jeep offering lifts to locals, who were left shaking in their shoes at the end of the journey.
Black and white photograph of Preston Potts and his wife, from Annabella MacNeill`s collection.
The Commanding Officer of RAF Tiree Preston Potts and his wife sitting on a jeep. (Original stored in filing cabinet 8 drawer 4)
Black and white photograph of Preston Potts, his wife and an unknown couple, from Annabella MacNeill`s collection.
The Commanding Officer of RAF Tiree Preston Potts (on the far right) and his wife (on the far left) with an unknown couple and a jeep. (Original stored in filing cabinet 8 drawer 4)
Black and white photograph of the mine-sweeper `Tiree` at sea in 1947.
The coal-fired anti-submarine trawler M.S. `Tiree` under tow from a destroyer following the fouling of her propeller during exercises, thought to be in 1947.
