CD `Western Ocean` by Skipinnish, 2014
Music CD by local band, Skipinnish, founded by Angus MacPhail, Ruaig. The cover is signed by members of the band.
2014.98.2
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Dates: 2010s
2014.82.1
Book `Cry at Midnight` by Mavis Gulliver, 2014
Fictional story for children that takes place on Tiree. Featuring magic and mythical creatures, and sea beans. Signed by the author.
2014.83.1
Names of men who died in the Great War (WWI)
List of names of 13 soldiers and sailors of Heylipol Parish who fell in the Great War 1914-1919, transcribed from a brass plaque above the altar in Heylipol Church in 2014. Names include Lamont, MacDonald, MacFadyen, MacFarlane, MacLaren, MacKinnon, MacPhail, Sinclair and MacArthur.
2014.81.1
Mantle-piece clock belonging to Edith Reid
Mechanical mantle-piece clock in a wood and brass casing, with key. It belonged to Tiree`s first District Nurse, Edith Reid, who lived in Heylipol in the 1960s. She returned to Tiree when she retired and died in September in Tigh a` Rudha in 1981. The clock may have been a retirement present. It was fixed more recently by Donald MacLean.
2014.68.1
Newspaper article about ceremony at the Coastal Command Memorial in North Berwick, 2014
Photocopy of a newspaper article from the East Lothian Courier about the annual ceremony at the Coastal Command Memorial in North Berwick in May 2014. The memorial map includes Tiree (see 2013.100.2). Accession includes a printed email about the memorial.
2014.36.1
Book `Images of Tiree` 2013
Softback book of artisitc colour and black & white photographic images of Tiree taken by Michael Woodhead (father of Francis Woodhead/Kemp, Balinoe) during 2013.
2014.36.4
Front cover of a Bernard D Smith & Son calendar
Cardboard front cover of a calendar(? 2013?) made by and advertising Bernard D Smith & Son builders, West Hynish, showing a black & white photograph of the coal puffer `Anzac` unloading coal on Caoles beach in 1952. Photograph accessioned separately as U152.
2014.21.1
The circumstances of the grounding of the Oceana at Baugh in 1949, by owner John Campbell
Transcript of a telephone conversation between John Campbell and Dr John Holliday in October 2013, regarding John Campbell`s life and ownership of the schooner `Oceana` and the circumstances leading up to its grounding and eventual break up on the beach at Baugh / Crossapol in 1949.
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2014.21.2
Extracts from the autobiography of John Campbell – owner of the Oceana
Printed extracts from the autobiography of John Campbell, owner of the schooner `Oceana` that grounded on Crossapol beach in 1949, including a photograph of the yacht in full sail.
2014.18.4
RBS contract of employment for Rosemary Omand, 1970
Photocopy of Rosemary Omand`s employment contract from when she first started working for the Royal Bank of Scotland on Tiree on 22 June 1970.