Object Type: newsprint

2007.55.2

Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 387,17/3/2007.

Local news and events including the new interactive touch screens, article by local councillor Ian Gillies, a new campsite at Balinoe, the results of the United Auction cattle sale in February, and updates from the WRI and RSPB.

2007.52.1

Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 390, 28/4/2007.

Local news and events including the final results of the health programmes, article by local councillor Ian Gillies, new campsite at Balinoe, SNH otter survey, and news from the RSPB.

2007.53.1

Copied newspaper clipping about Hugh MacFadyen.

Newspaper clipping about the death of Hugh MacFadyen of Kirkapol (Cathy MacNeill`s maternal uncle). He was the Chief Officer of the Canadian National Steamships and died unexpectedly aged forty-three. The four sisters in Scotland mentioned in the article were Kate (Cathy`s mother), Janet, Effy and Hughina (who married a Carmichael); the two brothers were Lachie and John. Cathy`s grandmother Isabel MacFadyen came from Kirkapol and moved to Baile Mhic Eoghainn when she married joiner Lachie MacFadyen. Effy Low, a cousin of Cathy`s mother, married Peter Anderson, the gamekeeper. Effy was a sister of Hugh Alexander Low.

2007.48.1

Photocopied photograph from the `Bulletin` of wreck of the `Tapti`, with printout of webpage from Mallaig Heritage Centre.

Photograph of the wreck of MV `Tapti` at Gunna in January 1951 publiched in the `Bulletin`; printout of webpage from Mallaig Heritage Centre about the `Tapti`.

2007.41.1

Periodical `West Highland Notes & Queries`, Series 3, No. 8, December 2006.

Notes about West Highland and Island historical research.

2007.41.6

Photocopied page about coconuts as flotsam.

Page from the New Scientist about how long it would a coconut to drift from the Caribbean to the west coast of Scotland.