Photocopies of newspaper advert for Tiree Association Gathering and photograph of its President, 1963
Advert for the Annual Gathering of the Tiree Association in Govan Town Hall on 15/11/1963, and photograph of Allan C. MacDougall, headmaster of Cornaig School and president of the 63rd annual gathering of the Tiree Association.
Photocopied newspaper article about the 1972 Tiree Agricultural Show
Description of the 1972 Agricultural Show held in Crossapol with results of following sections: beef and dairy cattle, sheep, ponies, dogs, home industries, horticulture and produce. Includes 14 black and white photos.
Photocopied newspaper article about the 1971 Tiree Agricultural Show.
Description of, and judges` views on, the stock entered in the Agricultural Show held at Crossapol, including results of Home Industries and Horticultural sections, children`s competitions and dog show, plus 7 black and white photos.
Audio cassette recording Isobel Weatherston interviewed by Dr John Holliday in Scarinish on 17/10/98.
Mrs Isobel Weatherston talks about her husband, Bill, and his career in dentistry, their purchase of Taigh na Beairt and the Reading Room in the Scarinish.
Click here to download the sound file ac69.mp3 (14MB).
Mabel Kennedy talks to Dr John Holliday in October 1998 about the interior decoration of the house at Main Road Farm in Balephuil where she lived until she went to work in service in Glasgow in 1926.
The floors of the house were made of concrete although, at that time, some must still have been beaten earth and clay. Earthen floors were considered warmer for children’s feet than concrete or flagstones and were kept clean by a sprinkling of shell sand every day except Sunday.
The walls inside were painted twice a year with whitewash made from seashells. The difficulty and expense of obtaining household goods on a remote Hebridean island encouraged the resourcefulness of the local people who would make do with the materials to hand.
Photocopied precognititon and indictment of six Tiree men for theft, pillaging, plundering, stouthrief and assault in March 1934.
(1) Account of the shipwreck and looting of its cargo by the inhabitants of Tiree, the stabbing of watchman Archibald MacNeill of Hough in the leg and the outcome of the trial. (2) Description of the charges against John Beaton, Archibald Kennedy, Donald MacMillan, Malcolm MacMillan, Peter MacDonald and James Black, a list of witnesses and their testimony.
Photocopy of precognition and indictment of Hector MacDonald of Kirkapol/Earnal for the murder of his wife, Jane Seaton.
Description of the murder of Jane Seaton by her husband, Hector MacDonald in February 1857, the evidence against him and a list of witnesses and their testimony. MacDonald was convicted and given a life sentence at Inveraray Court of Justiciary in April 1857. He was then held in Inveraray Jail until his transportation with 282 other convicts to Western Australia in August 1858. Their ship, Edwin Fox, arrived in November of the same year.