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.
Pages photocopied from the ‘Scottish Baptist Magazine’, ca 1910-1930, with obituaries for two Baptist ministers who were born and raised on Tiree: Rev. Duncan MacFarlane (1822-1908), and Rev. Alexander MacArthur (1900-1930).
Click here to view 2021.33.1
Article ‘Inspired by Tiree’ by Mavis Gulliver revealing how her children’s novel ‘Cry at Midnight‘ evolved. Scottish Islands Explorer magazine, Sept/Oct, 2014.
Click here to view 2021.29.1
Newspaper cutting advertising the private sale of the whole of Tiree by the 10th Duke of Argyll in 1951, with images of Island House and Balephuil Bay. The island was not sold, and remained in the property of the Dukes of Argyll.
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)
