Object Type: newsprint

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2023.13.1

Scanned copy of a newspaper cutting lent by Captain George Campbell of Kenovay. It shows members and friends at the Tiree Pipe Band dinner and dance held in Scarinish Hotel.  A post-it note on the back reads ‘As promised, Archie’ and is dated ‘Apr 4/70’ on the front in ink.

2022.26.1

Photocopy of an article titled ‘The crofters and the kelp’ by Roger Butler and published in Scottish Island Explorer magazine, Feb-Mar 2022. It gives an account of the kelp industry in the  western islands of Scotland, including Tiree, in the early 19th century, and of the people who worked at it.

2022.24.1

Copy of the Scottish Islands Explorer magazine, Mar-Apr 2019, , with an article on pages 28-31 about Skerryvore Lighthouse by James Petre who outlines its construction and commends viewing it, even visiting it. Three colour photos.

2021.9.1

Copy of the Swiss magazine Passé Simple containing an article (in French) about RAF airman Léonard Revilliod, one of the 16 flight crew who lost their lives in a mid-air collision over Island House in 1944. Léonard was the grandson of the first President of Czechoslovakia, and served with 518 Squadron based on Tiree. Written by Denis Dumoulin in 2020.

Click here to view extract (copyright Magazine Passé simple Sàrl, Switzerland)

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