Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 309, 20/12/2003
Local news and events including the Crossapol Environmental Improvement Scheme, District Councillor`s view, the Crofting Foundation, security at the airport, broadband and news from the WRI and the school.
2004 calendar illustrated with paintings by Scottish artists.
2004 calendar with August illustrated with a painting of Sandaig by Pam Carter.
Colour photograph of the Tiree football team in July 2000.
The Tiree football team who played against Iona in July 2000. L-R: (back) Stuart MacLennan, Scarinish; John Campbell, Cornaigbeg; James Christie, Cornaigmore; Lorne Kennedy, Balephuil; Gordon MacArthur, Crossapol; Edward Campbell, Cornaigbeg; Graeme Smith, Crossapol; Angus John MacKechnie, Crossapol; Adam Milne, Scarinish; Christopher Gillespie, Crossapol; Alan Leitch, RSPB; Danny Lapsley, Scarinish; (front) Michael Holliday, Baugh; Mark MacArthur, Caoles; Ross MacDonald, Hynish; Hugh Campbell, Balemartine; Archie MacArthur, Kilkenneth; Craig Lapsley, Scarinish.
Newspaper cutting about boarding at Tiree High School.
Article about a proposal to offer boarding places at Tiree High School for children of ex-patriots with a photograph of pupils exercising on Cornaig beach.
Lobster boat and dinghy at Scarinish pier
Photograph of a lobster boat and dinghy at Scarinish pier in July 2000.
Tiree may be known as Tìr an Eòrna, the land of barley, but the abundance of shellfish on its shores must have been one of the attractions that brought the first men to the island 7,000 years ago. In the 19th century, dried ling and cod were a major export from the island.
Today the lobster and crab fishery is Tiree’s second biggest earner with an estimated annual catch worth £750,000. By comparison, in 2004 crofting was estimated to be worth £730,000 to the island with a further £680,000 coming in subsidy.
Currently five boats fish out of Tiree for velvet crabs (deiseagan) and brown crabs (crùban or partan) which sell for 50-70 pence a kilo. ‘Deiseagan’ are particularly prized in Spain where they are cut in half and the body contents picked out whole with a spoon.
Colour photograph of Scarinish harbour in July 2000.
Lobster boat and dinghy at Scarinish pier in July 2000.
Colour photograph of the five-a-side football tournament in July 2000.
Five-a-side football tournament played on the Reef in July 2000.
Newspaper cutting about Girl Guides camping on Tiree.
Article about Girl Guides camping on Tiree with Jean Brown.
Colour photograph of Donald MacIntyre, Gott in July 2000.
Donald MacIntyre of Gott in a sailing dinghy at Scarinish pier during a regatta in July 2000.
Colour photograph of the five-a-side football tournament in July 2000.
Five-a-side football tournament played on the Reef in July 2000. (Archie MacArthur, Balinoe; Lyndsay Monoghan, Heanish; Mairi Ann Munn, Middleton; Mairi Lyndsay Campbell, Cornaigbeg; Jimmy Slowther Jnr, Scarinish)
Collection of 18 colour photographs of a 2000 Tiree regatta.
18 of a collection of 30 colour photographs of the July 2000 Tiree regatta. (The remaining 12 mounted and displayed as W44-W55 and catalogued as 2000.191.5 – 2000.191.16)
