Photocopied newspaper article `The doctor whose name lives on in Argyll school annals`.
Obituary for Dr Catherine Brown, daughter of Baptist minister Alexander Brown from Tiree.
1997.64.1
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1997.65.1
Photocopied newspaper article `As a legend of the sea slips o`er the horizon` by Don Whyte.
Memories of the ferry `Lochearn` about to leave Caledonian MacBrayne for the Mediterranean.
1997.39.3
Magazine cutting `The Isles of Sunshine` by Mary Paulin.
Descriptions of Coll and Tiree mentioning the changing popoulation of Tiree, the crofting community, bulb growing, birds, Dun Mor Vaul and the weather. Black and white photographs of the Tiree Pipe Band at Coll Agricultural Show and Scarinish, Tiree.
1997.39.4
Magazine `Piping Times`, Vol. 6, No. 3, December 1953, with photocopy.
Articles on pipers, pipe bands and competitions.
1997.39.7
Newspaper cutting of photograph of Mairi Lyndsay Campbell and the Princess Royal, with photocopy.
Mairi Lyndsay Campbell of Cornaigbeg presenting a bouquet to the Princess Royal outside the Alan Stevenson Centre, Hynish in June 1991 (see photo E116).
1997.37.4
Newspaper cutting about the organisation Scotland Against Nuclear Dumping, 1988
Photocopy of newspaper cutting from Oban Times, 14/4/1988, re the SAND organisation (Scotland Against Nuclear Dumping).
1997.39.8
Newspaper cutting `Last call for the corncrake?` by Robin Page, with photocopies.
Article about the falling numbers of corncrakes in Britain, the author`s visit to Tiree in 1989, and the recommendation that Tiree is declared an Environmentally Sensitive Area to protect the corncrakes` habitat.
1997.34.1
Newspaper cutting titled `Windy Island` about the yacht `Oceana`, with photocopy
Short article about the yacht `Oceana` said to be aground in Hynish Bay on the foreshore of Crossapol and mentioning that a gust of 108 miles per hour had beeen recorded on Tiree.
1997.34.2
Newspaper cutting `TheBest Holiday – On Lone Tiree` dated 16/5/1928, with photocopy.
Description of the best holiday of the author (G. R.) – a fortnight staying with an unnamed fisherman and his wife in Ruaig – mentioning the cost of the holiday, the train journey to Oban, the sail to Scarinish, the good weather in Tiree, home cooking, fishing and golfing at Vaul,
2002.8.1
Photocopy of article `Tope on a Tightline` by Rob Wainwright with two colour scans of photographs.
Tope fishing with Mark Beese.