Letter dated 10/5/1942 from Sergeant Bill Martin of 224 Squadron to his brother Jimmy, describing his pastimes on Tiree and the unsuitability of the island as a holiday destination.
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2007.75.5
Page of information about the letters and photographs regarding Bill Martin, RAF 224 Squadron, Tiree 1942.
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2007.75.1
Biographical information about Bill Martin (1916-1942), a wireless operator/gunner in RAF 224 Squadron who was briefly posted to Tiree in 1942. Bill and all but one of his fellow crew members lost their lives when their plane collided with a barrage balloon in fog on the edge of Dartmoor in October 1942. A memorial was unveiled there by Bill’s widow in 2018.
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2007.75.3
Letter from Sergeant Bill Martin of RAF 224 Squadron to his brother Jimmy on being posted to Tiree in 1942.
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2007.27.3
Photocopy of `Tales from Tiree` by Niall Brownlie published in The Scots Magazine, January 1984. Some Tiree tales retold by Niall Brownlie, Barrapol (1925-2015).
2006.107.1
Transcription of an extract from ‘A Winter on Tiree’ by Isobel Wylie Hutchison. Originally published in Blackie’s Girls’ Annual, 1924
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Born in 1889 in Kirkliston near Edinburgh, Isobel Wylie Hutchison became a respected film-maker, author and poet. While travelling in the Hebrides in 1920, she decided to spend a winter on Tiree. However, due to the vagaries of the weather and the mail-boat, it was a month before she reached the island.
She found lodgings in Ruaig and became involved in the life of the local Primary School. Her love of plants prompted an experiment in bulb-growing which presaged the Hebridean Bulb-growers Association by thirty years. Her subsequent travels took her to Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Alaska and the Aleutian islands.
A fellow of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, she was awarded the Mungo Park Medal in 1934 ‘in recognition of outstanding contributions to geographical knowledge through exploration.’ She wrote several travel books including ‘North to the Rime-Ringed Sun’ and ‘Stepping Stones from Alaska to Asia’, and four volumes of poetry.
2006.72.1
Handwritten copy of a diary kept by an unknown young woman aboard the emigrant ship `Jessie Munn`, en route to Australia in 1861-2.
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2006.29.1
Four sheets of photocopied music for bagpipes relating to Tiree.
Four sheets of photocopied music for bagpipes relating to Tiree: `Hugh Alexander Low of Tiree`, `Scarinish Bay`, `Captain Lachlan MacPhail of Tiree`, `Rhu Vaternish` and `The Tiree Bridal Song`.
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2001.147.1
Typewritten account about RAF Detachment Tiree.
Account of the small RAF unit stationed on Tiree in the 1960s onwards to maintain one of the remote equipment ends of the Auto Triangulation System operated from Prestwick which provided accurate fixes for aircraft in distress.
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2001.74.17
Photocopied handwritten paper by Professor Donald Meek about Rev John Gregorson Campbell.
Handwritten paper by Prof. Donald Meek about Rev John Gregorson Campbell and 19th century Gaelic folklore.