Colour photograph of Hector Kennedy, Flora Campbell and Eric Cregeen.
Hector Kennedy, Flora Campbell and Eric Cregeen in the 1960s or 1970s. (Place unknown)
2005.105.1
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Dates: 1960s
2005.105.2
Colour photograph of Flora Campbell and Eric Cregeen.
Flora Campbell and Eric Cregeen in the 1960s or 1970s. (Place unknown)
2005.98.3
Black and white photograph of Andrew MacLeod at the Hough radio station.
Andrew MacLeod at the Hough radio station around 1960. Andrew was the son of John MacLeod, a Communication Officer with Ministry of Civil Aviation, who came to Tiree in 1947 or 1948.
2005.98.5
Black and white photograph of Captain John MacKinnon on board the Claymore at Tobermory.
Captain John MacKinnon (Teònaidh Dhòmhnaill bhig) of Vaul on board the Claymore at Tobermory in the late 1960s.
2005.93.1
Packed lunches and school dinners in the 1940s
Sound clip in English of Janet MacIntosh talking about packed lunches and school dinners in the 1940s.
Courtesy of Mrs Janet MacIntosh
Janet MacIntosh was recorded in August 2005 talking to Maggie Campbell of Kilmoluaig about her schooldays in Balemartine in the 1940s. She remembers how ‘wonderful’ hot school dinners were compared to packed lunches.
When she was a child, the diet on Tiree was plain and simple. White and brown flour and oatmeal came in hundredweight bags and were stored in the ‘girnel’, a wooden chest with a lid and internal partitions, that kept the mice out. Housewives baked every day.
More fish was eaten than meat; there were few vegetables other than potatoes and no fruit. Food from the shore was also eaten: soup made with whelks (winkles) and oatmeal, or with dulse, and milk puddings made with carrageen.
2005.77.2
Newspaper obituary for Alasdair Kennedy (1929-2004).
Obituary for Alasdair Kennedy (1929-2004) who wrote the Glasgow Letter for the Oban Times
2005.77.4
Newspaper cutting of Hugh MacLean of Salum and his family in 1965.
Hugh MacLean of Salum and his family at Oban Station on their way to emigrate to Australia in 1965.
2005.70.1
Ethel MacCallum talking about moving to a Gaelic-speaking community
Sound clip in English of Ethel MacCallum talking about moving to a Gaelic-speaking community in the 1940s.
Courtesy of Mrs Ethel MacCallum
In this recording made in June 2005, Mrs Ethel MacCallum talks to Maggie Campbell about what it was like to move as a child to a Gaelic-speaking community. During World War II, Ethel was evacuated to Tiree where she was fostered by Hugh and Kate Lamont of Ruaig Post Office.
After leaving school at fifteen, Ethel helped her foster-parents in the Post Office and on the family’s croft. A couple of years later she moved to Inverary Castle where she worked as a housemaid for the Duke and Duchess of Argyll.
By the end of her schooling Ethel had ‘nothing in her head but music’. She competed many times in national and provincial Mods, winning cups for her Gaelic singing. She was also a gold medallist in the provincial Mod at Lochgilphead in 1967.
2005.62.1
Poem in English written by donor`s father, John MacKinnon from Rhum View.
Poem in English written by John MacKinnon from Rhum View, Vaul, in the late 1960s or early 1970s about Tiree.
2005.57.4
Colour photograph of the skiff `Passing Cloud` in Scarinish harbour in 1999.
The skiff `Passing Cloud` built by Malcolm MacLean at Eite in Heanish in 1944, photographed in Scarinish harbour by Mary Norton in 1999.
