Robert Beck at the 1967 Pipe Band World Championships
Photograph of Robert Beck at the Pipe Band World Championships in 1967.
Courtesy of Mr Robert Beck
The Tiree Pipe Band competed at the World Championships in Oban in 1967 and won second prize in Grade 4. In this photograph Robert Beck is seen receiving the prize from Lady MacLean.
Robert was Tiree’s vet from 1959 to 1974. As chairman of the agricultural sub-committee of the Tiree Council of Social Services he spearheaded a very successful community effort that resulted in Tiree being the first brucellosis-free area in the world. Brucellosis is an infectious disease with no cure that causes abortion in cattle and fevers, anxiety and depression in humans.
Robert went on to work on the staff of the Dick Vet School in Edinburgh. He retired in 1994 and settled in Ruaig with his wife Sheena. He still plays the pipes and tutors children at the local school.
Black and white photograph of Robert Beck of the Tiree Pipe Band at the World Championships in 1966.
Vet Robert Beck of the Tiree Pipe Band at the World Championships in 1966.
Black and white photograph of John Maclean of the Brae, Cornaigbeg.
John Maclean of the Brae, Cornaigbeg (Alec Mor`s father) with a Clydesdale stallion in the 1930s or 1940s.
Black and white photograph of the Tiree Pipe Band arriving at the Tobermory Games in 1966.
The Tiree Pipe Band arriving at the Tobermory Games in 1966.
Black and white photograph of the Tiree Pipe Band arriving at the World Championships in Oban in 1967.
Oban Times photograph of the Tiree Pipe Band arriving at the World Championships in Oban in 1967. Apart from the Pipe Band, the other Tiree people in the picture are William Sloan (secretary of RSPBA), Seumas MacNeill, Professor Donald Meek, Iain Lamont, Mrs Sheena Beck and her sons Drew and Robin.
Black and white photograph of the grandfather, aunt and uncle of Mairi MacFarlane, Creagan Breac, Cornaigbeg.
The grandfather of Mairi MacFarlane, Creagan Breac, Cornaigbeg and her aunt and uncle, Bella and Lachlan MacLean.
Black and white photograph of the MacEachern family of Cornaigbeg.
The MacEachern family of Cornaigbeg in the 1940s. L-R: (back) Annie MacEachern; Mairi MacEachern nee Maclean of Kenovay (John MacEachern`s wife); her daughter Janet (Mairi Brady`s mother); blacksmith John MacEachern (Janet`s father); (front) Archie MacEachern (Janet`s brother) with his son Iain.
Black and white photograph of Hugh MacEachern at Creag Mhor, Cornaigbeg.
Hugh MacEachern, the last blacksmith at Creag Mhor, Cornaigbeg.
Black and white photograph of the MacEachern of Creag Mhor, Cornaigbeg in 1918.
Archie MacEachern, the blacksmith at Creag Mhor, Cornaigbeg, his wife Catherine MacLean of the Brae, Cornaigbeg, and their children Archie (Leaban) and Mary.
Colour photograph of the café at Viewfield, Crossapol in the 1950s.
Outside the café at Viewfield, Crossapol in the 1950s. L-R: The MacCallum sisters Peggy, Jessie Ann and Mary.
Copied black and white photograph of Donald MacKinnon, Hough and Catriona MacLean, Kilmoluaig.
Catriona MacLean nee Sinclair (wife of Lachie MacLean, Kilmoluaig) and Donald MacKinnon, Hough in Crossapol in the mid-1960s.
