Black and white photograph of Jessie MacRory and Flora MacKinnon in the 1930s.
Jessie MacRory (m.s. MacLean) and her mother-in-law Flora MacLean nee MacKinnon (the mother and grandmother of nurse Flora MacKinnon) outside the Balevullin croft in the 1930s.
Black and white photograph of Neil MacLean and Jessie MacRory at Loch Lomond in the 1940s.
Neil MacLean and Jessie MacRory (parents of Flora MacKinnon, Balevullin) at Loch Lomond in the 1940s.
Black and white photograph of Donneil Kennedy and Neil MacKinnon in Moss in the late 1940s early 1950s.
Donneil Kennedy and Neil MacKinnon with Sandy Kennedy`s horse in Moss in the late 1940s early 1950s.
Black and white photograph of Neil MacLean of Balevullin in 1930.
Constable Neil MacLean of Balevullin (Father of nurse Flora MacKinnon of Balevullin) taken in Glasgow in 1930.
Black and white photograph of Flora MacKinnon nee MacLean of Balevullin in 1968.
Flora MacKinnon nee MacLean feeding the pet lamb in Balevullin in 1968 with her future husband Neil MacKinnon in the background waiting to take her out.
Black and white photograph of Ruaig School around 1932-3.
Ruaig School around 1932-3. L-R: (back row) Mr Robert MacLeod, Alasdair MacLean, Minnie MacKinnon, Christine MacInnes, Ruby MacDougall, Effie MacKinnon, Hughina MacDonald, Jessie MacGill, Lizzie Barr, Margaret MacArthur, Mary Bell MacFadyen, Hugh MacKinnon, Miss Maggie MacLean, (middle row) Archie MacLean, Calum MacKinnon, Mary MacArthur, Ishbel MacDonald, Rena MacKinnon, Lena Middleton, Margaret Graham, Effie MacKinnon, Mary Flora MacKinnon, James Graham, Angus MacLean, (front row) Hector MacKinnon, Iain MacKinnon, Iain MacKinnon, Ruaig, Lilian Graham ?, Janet MacFadyen, Mary Ann MacDonald, Hugh MacLean, Lachie MacLean, Hector MacArthur, Alastair MacKinnon.
Black and white photograph of Alexander MacKechnie in the 1920s.
Alexander MacKechnie of Kilmoluaig with a lamb around 1926-7.
Black and white photograph of Neil MacLean of Balevullin in 1938.
Policeman Neil MacKinnon of Balevullin (father of nurse Flora MacKinnon) taken in Glasgow in 1938.
Nurse Catherine MacAllister
Photograph of Nurse Catherine MacAllister.
Courtesy of Mrs Mairi Campbell
Catherine McAllister was the nurse on Tiree from 1930-36. From Bruichladdich on Islay, she was the first nurse to use a motor bike and sidecar on her rounds. Before her the nurses walked or bicycled to see their patients.
Poultices were much used in those days. An islander, who was a young child with pneumonia in the 1930s, remembers the nurse coming in every day, making up oatmeal porridge on the stove and plastering it on his chest under a bandage.
She left Tiree to work as a nurse in Dalmally but returned to marry Alex MacLean from Balevullin, Argyll Estate’s Ground Officer. Sadly, she was drowned in Glasgow in July 1950 and is buried in Soroby cemetery. Her husband died a few months later in the dentist’s chair in Oban.
Black and white photograph of nurse Catherine MacAllister in the 1930s.
Catherine MacAllister from Bruichcladdich, Islay, nurse on Tiree from 1930-36. She was the first to use a motorbike and sidecar on her rounds.
Black and white photograph of Innis Kennedy in Kilmoluaig in 1958.
Innis Kennedy on holiday with dog Shadow at Ben View, Kilmoluaig in 1958.
