Booklet “Old Scatness – Broch and Iron Age Village, Shetland”
Guide book to the history, excavation and preservation of Old Scatness in Shetland, “perhaps the best preserved, excavated, Iron Age site in Britain – or indeed, the world.”
Email message about HMS Sturdy and photographs
Email message from Derek Fox to John Holliday about photographs of the wrecked HMS Sturdy at Sandaig in 1940. Black and white photo of wrecked whaler (life boat) attached.
Tiree High School Handbook 1997
Handbook providing details of the organisation and opportunities within Tiree High School for everyone with an interest in the school.
Handwritten pipe tune `Sandaig Bay` by Willie MacLean, Balinoe, 1996
Sheet of hand-written pipe music `Sandaig Bay` by Willie MacLean of Balinoe in 1996
Collection of documents about HMS Sturdy donated by Lt. Cmdr. Mike Gibson in 2008
Collection of texts and photographs about the HMS Sturdy that ran aground off Sandaig in 1940. Includes text of personal reminiscences by Harry Springett, letter to Mr Springett from Donald MacLean (Tiree), letter from Dawn Springett (Harry`s daughter, Australia) 2007 regarding his memoirs. Photographs of HMS Sturdy, seamen, graves at Soroby Cemetry of those that perished, the shore where the wreck occurred, letter from Mike Gibson to C. MacKinnon (clerk of Sandaig Common Grazing) re erection of memorial, Navy News web page (2005) about HMS Sturdy by Mike Gibson, extract from “The Hebrides at War” by Mike Hughes, emails between Mike Gibson, John Holliday and Ian Gillies (2008) re erection of memorial. Earlier version of Harry Springett`s recollections added in 2011 (E01206).
Audio cassette recording of Radio Gaelic programme about Lady Victoria and the Land Leagues, 1993
Audio cassette recording of Radio Gaelic programme in Gaelic about Lady Victoria and the Land Leagues featuring the voices of A. MacArthur and D. Meek. Recorded on 12 August 1993.
Click here for 2009.34.1 Gaelic transcription and 2009.34.1 English translation by Anna MacDonald, Ruaig.
Booklet – Guide to Highlands and Islands Patients` Travel Scheme
Booklet with instructions on how to use the Highlands and Islands Travel Scheme for patients travelling to/from hospital from remote mainland and island communities in the 1980s.
Letter to Sarah MacLean, Barrapol from Donald MacLeod, Aberdeeen, 2008, re Tiree captains who died during WWII
Letter to Sarah MacLean Barrapol from Donald MacLeod, Aberdeen, 10 Sept 2008, re Tiree captains who died during WWII. Includes summaries of seamen from Tiree and other Hebridean islands who died in service.
Letter to Sarah MacLean, Barrapol from Donald MacLeod, Aberdeen, 2009, re Tiree seamen present at German attack on convoy of ships bound for Russia in 1942.
Letter to Sarah MacLean, Barrapol from Donald MacLeod, Aberdeen, 14 Jan 2009, re Tiree seamen who were present at German attack on convoy PQ18 bound for Russia during 12-16 Sept 1942. Includes Captain Hugh MacLean of Tiree, who was awarded the DSC for bravery during the attack whilst serving on the SS Dan-y-Bryn. Also includes details of decorated seamen from other Hebridean islands and a photocopied page from “The War in Pictures, Fourth Year” (Oldham Press, London) describing the battle.
Master copy of “A Guide to RAF Tiree” in loose A4 format (see 2009.5.1)
