Photocopied list of plants growing on Tiree in the 20th century.
List of plants growing on Tiree in the 20th century, giving their location.
1998.192.5
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Dates: 1940s
1998.203.1
Paperback book `From Tiree to New Zealand
The memoirs of Dugald Lamont from Balemartine
2003.62.1
Audio cassette recording of Angus MacLean of Scarinish interviewed by Maggie Campbell on 3/4/2003.
Angus MacLean (Aonghas Dhòmhnuill Eòghainn Mhòr) of Scarinish talks to Maggie Campbell about Tiree’s plane service from 1934 to the present day, about the various companies that flew to the island, the routes and aircraft used, his work and colleagues at the airport fire service, the fuel supply and runways, the Met Office and Captain David Barclay.
1998.186.2
Photocopied journal extract `Report on the Distribution and Status of the Corncrake` by C. A Norris.
Second part of a report on corncrakes focusing on its declining numbers and with notes on its habitat.
1998.179.1
Photocopied article from Tocher about Donald Sinclair of Balephuil.
Article about Donald Sinclair of Balephuil, 1885-1975 with transcripts of recordings made by Eric Cregeen.
1999.111.3
Black and white photograph of Tiree Home Guard.
Tiree Home Guard around 1944.
1999.111.7
Cornaig Post Office
Photograph of the post office at Cornaigmore.
Courtesy of Mr Hector MacPhail
The sub-post office at Cornaigmore was opened in 1896. The GPO brought in a telegraph line in the 1920s and installed a telephone in the nearby school when the Met Office opened a weather station there.
After the death of the postmaster in the mid-1950s, the office moved to Balevullin for some twenty-five years. It was re-opened on the original site in Cornaig in 1972 along with a general store and a popular restaurant called the Cèilidh Café. Two years later, they were all destroyed by fire.
In 1979 the post office was re-opened in Kilmoluaig. The Cornaig buildings were renovated in the 1980s as a single dwelling which for a few years also housed the Gaelic Playgroup. It was bought by the local council in the 1990s and converted into two council houses.
Black and white postcard of Cornaigmore Post Office.
Cornaigmore Post Office, probably between the World Wars.
2003.46.1
Booklet `1935-1945 The War Dead of the British Commonwealth and Empire`.
Register of the names of those who fell in the 1939-1945 war and are buried in cemeteries in Argyll, Bute and Inverness.
2003.48.6
Piece of crockery from RAF NAAFI on Tiree.
Piece of NAAFI crockery stamped G.R. VI 1943.
1998.148.1
Photocopied information about the building and staffing of the RAF station on Tiree.
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