Object Type: newsprint

1998.182.37

Photocopied page of newspaper cuttings about the shortage of girls on Tiree.

Oban Times article of 7/3/1968 about the declining juvenile population of Tiree, particularly among girls, expressed at a meeting of the Cornaigmore branch of An Comunn Gaidhealach, chaired by Calum MacLean of Salum..

1998.182.7

Photocopied page of newspaper cuttings about the clippers `Taeping`, `Ariel` and `Serica`, and the China Tea Race of 1866.

(1) Letter to the editor of the Glasgow Herald, 1963, by Donald B MacCulloch of Glasgow, about the cause of death of the Taeping`s captain, Donald MacKinnon, and other information about his family. Letter to the editor of the Glasgow Herald by John Graham of Troon with extracts from the logs of the `Taeping`, `Ariel` and `Serica`, and other information about the tea clippers. (2) Article in the Glasgow Herald, 1963, about about The Great China Tea Clipper Race of 1866 won by Captain Donald MacKinnon of Heanish. (3) Oban Times article of 13/5/1965 about the China Clipper Race of 1886 by Neil Brown.

2003.57.1

Newspaper cutting about the Princess Royal`s visit to Tiree in 1991.

Article and photographs of Princess Anne`s visit to Oban and Tiree in June 1991 where she opened the Continuing Care Unit at Taigh a` Rudha and the activity centre at Hynish. Photographs of Mor MacLeod of Sandaig in Taigh a` Rudha; Marie Lindsay Campbell presenting a bouquet, John Archie MacLean in Taigh a` Rudha.