A collection of papers from the Campbell family of Kenovay / Cornaigbeg
8. Newspaper cutting about the Tiree Pipe Band dinner dance 1970, mentioning new member Lorelei MacLennan and music by Murray Omand, Stewart Langley and Gordon Connell
A collection of papers from the Campbell family of Kenovay / Cornaigbeg
3. A cutting from the Daily Record, Wed, October 27, 1976, p 7.
“Outward bound… for the last time!” featuring the final Clyde / Coll, Tiree, Barra, North Uist and Harris run of the Caledonian MacBrayne coaster, Loch Carron after 15 years, before the cargo service was replaced by road haulage via Oban and Mallaig.
A collection of papers from the Campbell family of Kenovay / Cornaigbeg
2. Farming News, May 1, 1970, p 20. Pace-Makers
A feature on crofting modernisation in Tiree, including Donald MacLean, Hector Campbell, Cornaigbeg, Lauchlan MacKinnon, John MacKinnon, Farmview.
The Scots Magazine. September 2005
Includes the article, Wings Over Tiree. Peter Myers shares his memories of the island airport in the 1960s, when his father was air traffic controller from 1959
pp 306 – 309
A copy of Autocar Magazine. Christmas Special, December 2024.
Contains a feature by writer Richard Webber who retraces the steps of Scottish explorer, Isobel Wylie Hutchison, who had brought probably the first Christmas tree to Tiree in 1924, to the chapel in Ruaig, now a family home known as “the Wee Church”.
Richard drove from Carlowrie Castle to Tiree in an Ariel Nomad 2, collecting a Christmas tree from Mull en route.
A condensed version of the feature is online, here
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.
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.
Copy of the Scottish Islands Explorer magazine Aug-Sep 2022, with articles about ‘An Iodhlann: Tiree’s special heritage centre’ by Roger Butler (pp 17-20; 8 photos), and ‘Longships on the sand’ by John Randall (pp 42-43; 5 photos) about the 2nd edition of John Holliday’s book by the same title.
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.
Copy of a page from The Times newspaper, 11 Aug 2018, with an obituary for Archie Montgomerie, Earl of Eglington (1939-2018), who bought a house in Caoles in the late 1970s. Known locally as ‘Lord Egg’, he enjoyed participating in Tiree fishing competitions.
