Booklet `The Care and Conservation of Graveyards`
Advice to those caring for or cleaning up graveyards.
2004.50.4
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Dates: 1990s
2000.113.3
Paperback book `In fair waether and in foul` by Colin J. Smith.
The history of 30 years of Scottish passenger ships and ferries.
1999.291.26
Hardback book `The Song of the Sandpiper` by J. Morton Boyd.
Autobiography of J. Morton Boyd.
1999.202.5
Paperback book `The birds of Eigg` by John Chester.
The status and distribution of the birds of Eigg.
1999.303.4
Paperback book `Outer Hebrides (Western Isles) Bird Report 1998` edited by Brian Rabbits.
Account of the resident, migrant and vagrant birds in the Outer Hebrides.
2000.240.1
Audio cassette recording of Margaret MacDonald of Cornaigmore talking to Maggie Campbell in 2000.
Margaret MacDonald talks to Maggie Campbell in 2000 about buying ‘An Airigh’ in Cornaigmore in 1962 and using it as a holiday house until they took up permanent residence in 1981, the changes she’s seen in the shops, self-sufficiency, and crofting practices; Margaret also talks about how children today have less love of nature, how Mrs Campbell of Garaphail kept the Sabbath, the neighbouring croft that once belonged to novelist Alistair Maclean’s family and how milk was retailed in lemonade bottles.
2001.168.8
Paperback book `Outer Hebrides (The Western Isles) Bird Report 2000` edited by Brian Rabbitts.
Account of the resident, migrant and vagrant birds of the Outer Hebrides.
2000.67.1
Audio cassette recording of Vivienne Johnston talking to Dr John Holliday in March 2000.
Vivienne Johnston of Heanish talks to Dr John Holliday in March 2000 about her relations in Balemartine, coming on holiday every year as a child then as an evacuee in 1939, her stay at Taylor’s Cottage, her experiences at Balemartine School where Gaelic was the language of the playground, the kindness of the MacDonalds at Catrim, going to the pictures, the wartime plane crashes, experiences of her later life and how living on Tiree has affected her.
2001.171.1
Audio cassette recording of Charlie MacLeish talking to Maggie Campbell on 19/9/2001 at his home in Sandaig .
Charlie MacLeish of Sandaig talks to Maggie Campbell in September 2001 about his childhood memories of Tiree in the 1940s, the people and the houses in Sandaig and how the place has changed since he was a boy; Charlie also talks the plane and ferries services and how they have changed.
2001.154.1
Audio cassette recording of Carol and Mrs Stoker of Scainish talking to Maggie Campbell in August 2001.
Carol and Mrs Stoker of Scarinish talk to Maggie Campbell in August 2001 about their holidays in Tiree and the changes they’ve seen since the 1960s in the shops, old people’s home, holiday houses, dances, the fencing of common grazing, ferries, the telephone exchange, golf course, farming and the increase in caravans on the island.