Photograph of Calum MacKinnon, Kilmoluaig and Cathie Gunn, ca 1980s
Colour photograph of Calum (Iain Bhan) MacKinnon, Kilmoluaig and Cathie Gunn sitting in front of the fire in Calum`s house during the 1980s. Calum`s house was the last without electricity on the island – he never wanted it.
Photograph of Calum MacKinnon, in his house in Kilmoluaig, ca 1980
Colour photograph of Calum (Iain Bhan) MacKinnon in his house in Kilmoluaig beside his chiming clock, ca 1980. His house was the last without electricity on the island – he never wanted it.
Photograph of the view of Loch Bhasapol from Calum MacKinnon`s house in Kilmoluaig, ca 1970
Black and white photograph of the view of Loch Bhasapol from the door of Calum (Iain Bhan) MacKinnon`s house at Kilmoluaig during the 1970s. Note the size of the stones acting as gate posts and bolt for locking. His house was the last without electricity on the island – he never wanted it.
Book “The Second Torpedo” about the torpedoing of the SS Volendam, by Ilene Birkwood
Softback book “The Second Torpedo” about the torpedoing of the SS Volendam, which was evacuating 300 school children from England to Canada in 1940. The author, Ilene Birkwood, was one of the surviving children. The ship`s purser`s body washed up on Tiree and was buried in Kirkapol cemetery – see pages 89-90.
Articles and phototcopied photographs relating to RAF Tiree during WWII
11 newspaper articles, 2 letters and 4 annotated photocopies of photographs pertaining to RAF Tiree during WWII, 518 Squadron, RAF metereological observations, VE Day met. observations over the Atlantic, life in the RAF on Tiree, Tiree`s role during WWII, 518 Squadron crew list (after the Commonwealth airmen had left), the effect the RAF`s presence on the local population, the 518 Squadron reunion of 1985, letter from Dermot Boyle (Marshal of the RAF) to Wing Commander Angell wishing the reunion well, letter from Mary MacKinnon, Crossapol, to Neville Beale, a typed tribute to Metereological Reconnaissance in WWII by Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Harding and Sir John Houghton, short ornate description of 518 Squadron showing crest. Letters between Neville Beale and An Iodhlann regarding his donation of the material.
Book “The Voyages of the Discovery”
Softback book about the history of Scott of the Antartic`s ship the “Discovery”. Tiree man Kenneth MacKenzie was appointed Chief Officer/First Mate of the Discovery for the first British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) in 1929. In 1930, he was promoted to Captain for the second BANZARE expedition. Text and photographs of Captain MacKenzie on pages 130, 134, 142.
Archive film about Strathclyde c 1973
DVD film from the Scottish Screen Archive about `Strathclyde`. Filmed in 1973, colour, sound. About the forthcoming new Scottish region of Strathclyde using the views of school children from the region to describe their local areas. Senior pupil at Oban High School, Lachie MacFadyen, speaks about his home of Tiree. Footage includes the old mart at Crossapol farm, the Hebridean Knitwear Factory, Scarinish harbour and travelling between Tiree and Oban to school on the ferry “Claymore”. Other areas mentioned: Dalavich, Oban, Coatbridge, Oban hostel, bus to west Loch Tarbert ferry, Tayinloan ferry, Glasgow, housing projects, Hunterston nuclear power station and industrial estate.
This can also be viewed at the Scottish Screen Archive, Glasgow.
Archive film from the 1980s about `Two Men of Tiree`
DVD film from the Scottish Screen Archive about `Two Men of Tiree`. Filmed in the 1980s, colour, sound. The two men are Gavin Carter, who opened a bakery on the island, and Hector MacPhail, lobster fisherman. Both businesses were given start-up funding from the Highlands and Islands Development Board. Also featured in the film: Nester Carter (Gavin`s wife) and their four children, Donald John Kennedy (crewing for Hector), school children on the school bus and in the classroom, Milton Harbour, and “Harbour Maid” (Hector MacPhail`s fishing boat).
Archive film from 1972 about Round `The Mull`
DVD film from the Scottish Screen Archive about `Round `The Mull“. Filmed in 1972, colour, sound. A tour of the western isles on board the “Loch Carron” ferry in June 1972. Starting at Kingston Bridge, Glasgow then down the Clyde under the Erskine Bridge, Dumbarton Rock and Greenock. On to Arran, Fladda lighthouse and round the Mull of Kintyre. Then Tobermory, Coll and Tiree. A walk around Tiree includes footage of An Iodhlann when it was used as a dental surgery by dentist W.R.Weatherston. Then Barra, Lochboisdale and back to Oban.
Archive film from 1944 about `The Isles of Youth`
DVD film from the Scottish Screen Archive about `The Isles of Youth`. Filmed in 1944, colour, silent. David MacBrayne`s silent film of various island scenery in the western isles, interspersed with poetic texts. Subjects include ferries, buses, Oban, Stornoway, Harris and Harris tweed, Rodeland & St.Clements Church, Uist, Barra, Tiree including the ship “Mary Stewart” abandoned in Scarinish Harbour but still intact, Lunga, Iona, Staffa, Mull, Highland Games.
