Newspaper article about tulip and daffodil growing on Tiree and Coll, 1958
Original and photocopy of an article titled “Look out for tulips from the Hebrides”, about the new tulip and daffodil growing industry on Tiree and Coll, in The People`s Journal newspaper, 1958.
Newspaper article about the sinking of a boat carrying 26 people from Tiree in 1828.
Extract from a letter from a man on Coll to a man in Glasgow dated 31st May 1828, published in the Glasgow Herald and extracted by The Times. On the 29th of May 1828 a boat carrying 26 people from Tiree struck rocks near the Treshnish Isles after a peat-cutting expedition to Mull. Twenty-one died. They were Hector John Cameron and his sister Mary Cameron, Charles MacLean, Mary MacDonald, Jean Campbell, Mary Carlisle, William MacLean and his wife, Donald MacLean and his sister Mary MacLean, Catherine Galbraith and her brother Malcolm MacInnes, Alexander Rainey, Alexander Cameron, Neil MacDonald and his daughter.
Newspaper article about drowning of John Neil McLean in Australia, 1911
Photocopy of a newspaper article about the death of John Neil McLean, brother of Charles McLean, Kenovay, who drowned on 10th October 1911, when the ship on which he was second mate, the SS MacLeay, struck rocks of North Head, New South Wales, Australia.
Newspaper article, 1986, “Of seers, witches and ghosts” about 19th century seer John MacLean
Original and photocopy of a newspaper article by Niall M. Brownlie, Barrapol, about John MacLean, Ruaig & Hough, a well known 19th century `seer` of the future who foresaw the first and second world wars, the arrival of the RAF on Tiree, the division of farms into crofts and the disappearance of townships behind Ben Hough (which were buried by wind-blown sand?).
Newspaper obituary from 1909 for Ann MacKinnon, Canada, formerly Tiree
Photocopy of an obituary from a Canadian newspaper dated June 1909, for Mrs Ann MacKinnon (formerly Clark, nee MacDonald) who was born on Tiree in about 1836. Ann emmigrated to Brock township, Ontario, with her father Donald MacDonald and seven siblings shortly after her mother Eliza Lamont died. Ann moved to Bruce County with her first husband, Malcolm Clark, with whom she had two children, then to Brandon Hills with her second husband Hugh MacKinnon (also originally from Tiree), with whom she had eight children.
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Magazine article “The current of history” about travels through the Highlands and islands in the 1950s and 1960s.
Magazine article about the author`s memories of travelling by train and steam ship from St Andrews to Glasgow and Oban, and then the isles and Fort William in the 1950s and 1960s, including reference to Gaelic fables. With map and colour photos.
Tiree High School Newsletter, 25 September 2009
Newsletter of Ard-sgoil Thiriodh, Cornaig, Sept 2009. Contents: notice about a concert by prospective Mòd contestants to raise funds to send the contestants to the Mòd, maths challenge, head lice, dental health, harvest hampers, lunch menu, yearbooks and calendars, jewellery recycling, rugby club, forthcoming events.
Newspaper article about Roderick Nicolson, Headteacher at a Tiree school in 1913.
Photocopied newspaper article from 1986, and accompanying letter to Archie MacKinnon, Cornaigmore, from his cousin in Australia, Sept 2009. A friend of Archie`s cousin had given his cousin the newspaper article and letter. The article reports Roderick Nicolson`s 95th birthday celebrations at the Cabarfeidh Hotel, Balallan and of his teaching career, including his first teaching position as Headmaster of a primary school on Tiree in 1913. The accompanying letter gives details of his family on Lewis.
Digital scanned copy of newspaper cutting “A` Maistreadh” in Gaelic
Digital scanned copy of newspaper cutting in Gaelic entitled “A`Maistreadh” (At the churning) showing a photograph of a women hand-churning butter on Tiree. Photographed by George Holleyman during 1941-43.
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Photocopy of newspaper article in Gaelic entitled “A` Maistreadh”
Photocopy of newspaper article in Gaelic entitled “A` Maistreadh” (at the churning), showing a photograph of a women hand-churning butter on Tiree. Photographed by George Holleyman in 1941-43.
