Detailed and accurate scale model of `Cnoc` house at Ruaig, hand-made around the 1980s by Tiree vet and piping tutor Robert Beck who lived there until 2014.
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Dates: 1990s
2014.120.8
Photograph of “Mary Stoker, Ma” (Meena Knapman), Isabel Weatherspoon & Ethel Gibson (in car) around 1980
Colour photograph of Mary Stoker, Meena Knapman, Isabel Weatherspoon and Ethel Gibson (in car) around 1980. Rona Campbells house in background on Pier Road.
2014.116.1
Photograph of a Remembrance Day wreath “On behalf of Tiree”, 2014
Colour photograph of a wreath of poppies with a ribbon stating “On behalf of Tiree”, placed on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, Canada, on Remembrance Day, 11 November 2014. It is unknown who placed the wreath.
2014.109.1
Brochure for Tigh a` Rudha Eventide Home, ca 2000
Photocopy of black & white brochure describing the old people`s home in Scarinish around 2000. Includes information on numbers of bedrooms, facilities and activities.
2014.104.2
Autobiography by Ethel McCallum, 2006
Unbound photocopy of autobiography `Who Knows?` by Ethel MacCallum (nee Woods; b. 1937). Ethel was born in Glasgow. Her unmarried mother left her in a children`s home in Glasgow, from where she was boarded out to a family in Aberdeenshire at the age of 9 months. At 5 years old, she was returned to the home in Glasgow. When the bombs started falling during WWII, she and other children were boarded out to Tiree families in 1943. She was given a safe and loving home by `Aunt` Kate and `Uncle` Hugh Lamont who ran a post office, and went to school at Ruaig. Moved to the mainland after she married Archie McCallum. Her son Duncan has a house on Tiree.
2014.104.3
Paper and balance sheet for the Tiree Community Council, 1990s
One sheet of headed A4 notepaper of Comhairle Thiriodh / Tiree Community Council from the 1990s, and a balance sheet for the account year ending March 2001.
2014.104.4
Photograph of Tiree Medical Practice staff, ca 1995
Colour photograph of staff of the Tiree Medical Practice at a dinner at the Lodge Hotel around 1995. Clockwise from left: Clare Jones, Jane MacDonald, Cairin MacLeod, Dr John Holliday, Mary MacKinnon, Rena MacKinnon, Ina MacArthur, Dr Bob le Masurier. (original stored in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1)
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Photograph of Tiree Medical Practice staff ca 1995
Colour photograph of staff of the Tiree Medical Practice at a dinner at the Lodge Hotel around 1995. Clockwise from left: Clare Jones, Jane MacDonald, Cairin MacLeod, Dr John Holliday, Mary MacKinnon, Rena MacKinnon, Ina MacArthur, Dr Bob le Masurier, Margie Brown. (original stored in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1)
2014.101.2
Book `The Lord of the Isles Voyage`, 1993
Softback book about the building of a 16th century sailing galley made by the MacDonald`s of Skye and author Wallace Clark, and its voyage through the sea kingdom in 1991 and 1992. Given to Dr John Holliday by Carol Kirkpatrick.
2014.99.1
Audio recording of talks at the Halifax memorial event, 2014
Talks by various participants, including Mike Hughes and Ken Organ, of the commemoration event at An Talla on 16th August 2014 on the 70th anniversary of the fatal collision of two RAF Halifax aircraft over Tiree.