Photocopied extract from `The Scottish Islands` by George Scott-Moncrieff, pp 58-63.
Description of Tiree with two illustrations of Tiree houses with felt roofs.
2000.52.1
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2000.53.1
Photocopied extract `The Buildings of Scotland – Argyll and Bute` by Frank Arneil Walker, pp 594-600.
Descriptions of townships and buildings, churches and chapels, burial grounds and cemeteries, monuments and memorials, duns, forts and broch, standing stones, airport and piers, Sandaig museum, Skerryvore and the Hynish complex.
1999.65.1
Photocopied extract from `A Star for Seamen` by Craig Mair, pp 147-161.
Account of the building of Skerryvore by Alan Stevenson.
2003.79.1
Copied extract from `History of the Baptists in Scotland` edited by Rev. George Yule, pp118-9.
Short history of the Baptists in Tiree from around 1820 to 1930, with a photograph of the church on Tiree..
1998.189.1
Book extract `The Flora of the Isle of Coll, Tiree and Gunna` by J. W. Heslop Harrison, Helena Heslop Harrison, W. A. Clark and R. B. Cooke.
List of the flora of Tiree, Coll and Gunna found during field trips by botanists from the University of Durham during 1937-1940.
1998.173.1
Photocopied extract from book `Annals of the Free Church of Scotland 1842-1900` edited by Rev William Ewing, D.D., Vol I: pp 160, 234, 248, Vol II: pp 121-123.
Biographical information about Free Church ministers who served Tiree.
1998.173.2
Photocopied extracts from `The Monthly Record of the Free Church of Scotland`.
Contributions received fromTiree in 1907 and 1908; article about communion and other services held in Tiree during 1908, some of which were held in the Baptist churches and in the Reading Room; obituary for elder Donald MacFadyen, Scarinish merchant, who died in 1912.
1998.173.3
Photocopied extract from `Scottish Population Statistics` edited by J. G. Kyd, pp 32-35.
Extract from Alexander Webster`s census of 1755 which describes Tiree as 8 miles long and 1.25 miles broad with 1 minister, 3 Papists, 1506 Protestants and 301.75 fighting men.
1998.173.4
Photocopied extract from `A Voyage round the Coasts of Scotland and the Isles` by James Wilson, Vol I pp 108-115.
Account of a voyage around Scotland sailing past Skerryvore in the process of construction and visiting the lighthouse workshops at Hynish; description of Tiree`s landscape, stock and cultivation.
1998.173.5
Photocopied extract from `The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland` by John MacCulloch, Vol IV pp 88-109.
Description of a visit to Tiree in the early 1820s. (Only pp 97-101 about Tiree)