Photograph of Chrissie Murray 1924-2023, from Point, Lewis who came to work at Tiree NAAFI
2024.6.2
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Dates: 1990s
2023.12.5
Typewritten and bound structural report by Montgomery-Smith & Partners produced for Co Chommann Dualchas Thiroidh/Tiree Heritage Society in July 1999 and concerning the Chapel and the Old Parish Church at Kirkapol. Contains repair recommendations. 6pp plus cover. Black and white with no illustrations.
2023.12.4
Bound booklet about the restoration of the Kirkapol Chapels. 14pp. Includes colour photographs, an article entitled St Columba and Tiree by Rev R Higham, grant award notices and a black and white map. Can be dated to c1999 from copy of funding notice.
2023.12.3
Nadair (Nature and Sustainable Development in the Argyll Islands) funding application form, 1999.
2023.12.2
Minutes of meetings of the Disability Forum held at various locations in Crossapol in 1999 and 2000, chaired by Fiona MacKinnon, Kirkapol.
2023.9.1
Audio cassette recording of Hector Campbell, from Barrapol (Anne Brown’s brother), reciting poetry in around 1980. Inside the cassette case is a type-written copy of Walter de la Mare’s ‘Autumn‘.
2022.29.7
Book ‘The Hebrides at War’ by Mike Hughes, 1998. An illustrated account of the men and women who served and lived in Oban and the Hebrides during World War II. From the belongings of the MacDonald/MacCorquodale/MacLean family of Kenovay.
2022.27.1
Collection of articles, poems, photographs and illustrations by Alistair MacNeill of Hynish (b. 1940). Alistair recollects his experiences competing in the County Sports, Skerryvore Lighthouse, the Great China Tea Race of 1866, rock fishing with a bamboo rod, ‘The Wembly Wizards’ Scottish football team of 1928, gathering tangles (seaweed) for the kelp industry, Ben Nevis, a puffer coal boat at Hynish pier. Includes two covering letters with further information.
2022.19.1
Two colour photographs of the front and back of a crude wooden cross, hand-carved from a driftwood branch, probably pine. The back has been fashioned to hang flat on a wall. Found in the dunes at Salum Bay in 1998, it hung in ‘The Wee Church’ at Ruaig.
As there are no pine trees on Tiree, it is likely to have drifted there from Coll or Mull.
2022.16.8
Colour photograph of a traditional boat ‘Isabella’ on Gott Bay in around 1990.
