CD “Home to Argyll with Ethel MacCallum”
CD of songs, music, singing and spoken words by Ethel MacCallum who was evacuated to Tiree as a child during the 2nd World War. Includes a song entitled “Goirtean Dòmhnaill (Barapol)”, and works by Niall Brownlie and Cathy Thomson amongst others.
Archive film from 1963 of (1) The Wheelhouse at Drimore, South Uist, (2) Dun Mor Vaul, Tiree
DVD film from the Scottish Screen Archive about the Wheelhouse at Drimore on South Uist and Dun Mor Vaul on Tiree. Filmed in 1963, colour, silent. Made by the Hunterian Museum, the films feature (1) two men (presumably archaeologists) displaying photographs, line drawings, text, and pottery and bone fragments from the wheelhouse excavation, along with a model of the excavated site (the film does not contain footage of the actual wheelhouse), (2) footage of the excavation of the broch at Vaul by a team from the University of Glasgow, plus diagrams and pottery fragments.
Archive film about Strathclyde c 1973
DVD film from the Scottish Screen Archive about `Strathclyde`. Filmed in 1973, colour, sound. About the forthcoming new Scottish region of Strathclyde using the views of school children from the region to describe their local areas. Senior pupil at Oban High School, Lachie MacFadyen, speaks about his home of Tiree. Footage includes the old mart at Crossapol farm, the Hebridean Knitwear Factory, Scarinish harbour and travelling between Tiree and Oban to school on the ferry “Claymore”. Other areas mentioned: Dalavich, Oban, Coatbridge, Oban hostel, bus to west Loch Tarbert ferry, Tayinloan ferry, Glasgow, housing projects, Hunterston nuclear power station and industrial estate.
This can also be viewed at the Scottish Screen Archive, Glasgow.
Archive film from the 1980s about `Two Men of Tiree`
DVD film from the Scottish Screen Archive about `Two Men of Tiree`. Filmed in the 1980s, colour, sound. The two men are Gavin Carter, who opened a bakery on the island, and Hector MacPhail, lobster fisherman. Both businesses were given start-up funding from the Highlands and Islands Development Board. Also featured in the film: Nester Carter (Gavin`s wife) and their four children, Donald John Kennedy (crewing for Hector), school children on the school bus and in the classroom, Milton Harbour, and “Harbour Maid” (Hector MacPhail`s fishing boat).
Archive film from 1972 about Round `The Mull`
DVD film from the Scottish Screen Archive about `Round `The Mull“. Filmed in 1972, colour, sound. A tour of the western isles on board the “Loch Carron” ferry in June 1972. Starting at Kingston Bridge, Glasgow then down the Clyde under the Erskine Bridge, Dumbarton Rock and Greenock. On to Arran, Fladda lighthouse and round the Mull of Kintyre. Then Tobermory, Coll and Tiree. A walk around Tiree includes footage of An Iodhlann when it was used as a dental surgery by dentist W.R.Weatherston. Then Barra, Lochboisdale and back to Oban.
Archive film from 1944 about `The Isles of Youth`
DVD film from the Scottish Screen Archive about `The Isles of Youth`. Filmed in 1944, colour, silent. David MacBrayne`s silent film of various island scenery in the western isles, interspersed with poetic texts. Subjects include ferries, buses, Oban, Stornoway, Harris and Harris tweed, Rodeland & St.Clements Church, Uist, Barra, Tiree including the ship “Mary Stewart” abandoned in Scarinish Harbour but still intact, Lunga, Iona, Staffa, Mull, Highland Games.
Archive film from 1966 about `A Dentist`s Road to the Isles`
DVD film from the Scottish Screen Archive about `A Dentist`s Road to the Isles`. Filmed in 1966, colour, sound. Film journal of dental surgeon John Cadden`s trip around the isles to treat patients. Starting at his home in Dumbarton, then to Oban via the Clyde and the Crinan Canal on his boat “Contance”. Then to Tobermory for the first of his treatments, followed by Rum and Eigg. Many close-up views of dental patients undergoing treatment. He also treated patients on Tiree, Islay, Jura, Colonsay and Soay, but not on this trip.
Documents, correspondence and photographs pertaining to the the sailing schooner “Oceana” that was stranded on Tiree in 1949
Information about the sailing schooner, or two-masted leisure yacht, “Oceana” that became stranded and broke up between Crossapol farm and Crossapol beach on 9th March 1949. Includes correspondence between Anthony Vaughan and (1) An Iodhlann, (2) the Receiver of Wrecks, and (3) Isle of Wight Local Studies Collection, about the location of the stranding on Tiree, records of its loss, its manufacture and changes of ownership 1879-1948, and historical photographs. Photographs include three of the Oceana under sail, one during refitting, two at anchor off Portsmouth and Isle of Wight, eight of Anthony Vaughan`s great uncle+wife on the deck of the schooner in the 1930s. How the yacht became grounded in reasonable weather is a mystery. Rumours were that they made for the airport control tower instead of the Scarinish lighthouse, and that they were smugglers or on their way to Russia to pick up a dissident.
Letter in The Scots Magazine, Dec. 2009, from “Barrow Boy” Peter MacLeod (b. 1933) about his childhood on Tiree ca 1936.
Photocopy of a page from The Scots Magazine, Dec. 2009, showing a black & white photograph of a very young Peter MacLeod with his wooden wheel-barrow in Ruaig School playground ca 1935/36, and his letter to the magazine in 2009. The letter tells of the coal puffers beached at Gott Bay and collecting cow-pats in summer for fuel. Peter was the son of the Head Teacher at Ruaig School and was born on Tiree – he classed himself as a Tiree man and spoke Gaelic. He became the Manager of the Royal Bank of Scotland in Argyll Square, Oban. Now retired.
Information about John Sands (1826-1900), journalist & artist, who lived on and wrote about several Scottish islands including Tiree and Iona
Printout from internet about John Sands of Ormiston (1826-1900) who was a Scottish freelance journalist and artist with an interest in archaeology and folk customs, especially the way of life on Scottish islands. He spent a year on Iona and several other remote islands including Tiree.
