Dates: 2000s

2000.217.1

Audio cassette recording of Jean MacCallum, Balevullin talking to Maggie Campbell in 2000.

Jean MacCallum of Balevullin talks to Maggie Campbell in 2000 about the people she knew as a child, including Nurse MacDonald, her friends and family and what she got up to, her schooling, her love of working outside with animals, meeting her mother and half-brothers and -sisters and of eventually meeting her sister, the people in Balevullin, the shops and the butcher’s, wartime rations and being sent back to Glasgow but returning to Tiree.

2000.217.2

Audio cassette recording of Jean MacCallum, Balevullin talking to Maggie Campbell in 2000.

(Continued from AC238) Jean MacCallum of Balevullin talks to Maggie Campbell in 2000 about pilgrims preaching in Balevullin School and about going to church, the names and location of various rocks and cliffs near Balevullin, carrageen and fishing, how crofting now is not as close to nature, Easter and the different moons, potatoes and crops that used to be grown, natural fertilisers, the faster pace of life now, Cattle Shows, Clydesdale horses and knitting.

2000.215.7

Black and white photograph of the bagpipe class at Tiree High School in 2000.

The bagpipe class at Tiree High School in 2000. L-R: David Hunter, Cornaigmore; John Campbell, Cornaigbeg; Robert Beck, Ruaig (tutor); Martin Gillespie, Balinoe; Kenneth MacKinnon, Balephetrish; Ben Williams, Balemartine; Daniel Gillespie, Balinoe.

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