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Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 418, 7/6/08
Local news: Tiree 10K; An Iodhlann re-opens; interview with Elaine Hutchinson; air link between Oban and islands; Helen Thompson professional kite-surfer; `Tiree Experience` day tour; the Tiree Association; architecture awards; MacLeans of Tiree and New Zealand; kite-building competition (goose scarers); `Pipathon`; closure of Craft Shop, Kenovay.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 417, 24/5/08
Local news: call for information on skate; interview with Fiona Maxwell, Kenovay; photography competition; nature in schools; biodiversity; improvements to Oban-Glasgow bus service; Goose Management Scheme; Tiree Trust news; Tiree Regatta Club; champion Ruaig bullock.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 416, 10/5/08
Local news: message in a bottle, Crossapol; RSPB information; interview with Steve Thomson, Balinoe; release of CD of traditional Gaelic songs; Tales from the Stackyard – The Library, 1911; Lochgilphead School in Arctic; sheep tagging, Argyll Estates` fishing rules; livestock sale results; Tiree Community Trust news; SWRI meeting; bale-wrap recycling.
Hand-carved wooden picture frame, ca 1910
Ornate wooden picture frame carved by one of Hector MacKinnon`s family (Lodge Farm, Kirkapol) at Lady Victoria Campbell`s woodworking class, ca 1910. The frame contained three oval portraits of men (see 2014.106.1), but the back broke off during woodworm treatment in 2013.
Photograph of Tiree Medical Practice staff ca 1995
Colour photograph of staff of the Tiree Medical Practice at a dinner at the Lodge Hotel around 1995. Clockwise from left: Clare Jones, Jane MacDonald, Cairin MacLeod, Dr John Holliday, Mary MacKinnon, Rena MacKinnon, Ina MacArthur, Dr Bob le Masurier, Margie Brown. (original stored in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1)
Photograph of Tiree Medical Practice staff, ca 1995
Colour photograph of staff of the Tiree Medical Practice at a dinner at the Lodge Hotel around 1995. Clockwise from left: Clare Jones, Jane MacDonald, Cairin MacLeod, Dr John Holliday, Mary MacKinnon, Rena MacKinnon, Ina MacArthur, Dr Bob le Masurier. (original stored in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1)
Paper and balance sheet for the Tiree Community Council, 1990s
One sheet of headed A4 notepaper of Comhairle Thiriodh / Tiree Community Council from the 1990s, and a balance sheet for the account year ending March 2001.
Autobiography by Ethel McCallum, 2006
Unbound photocopy of autobiography `Who Knows?` by Ethel MacCallum (nee Woods; b. 1937). Ethel was born in Glasgow. Her unmarried mother left her in a children`s home in Glasgow, from where she was boarded out to a family in Aberdeenshire at the age of 9 months. At 5 years old, she was returned to the home in Glasgow. When the bombs started falling during WWII, she and other children were boarded out to Tiree families in 1943. She was given a safe and loving home by `Aunt` Kate and `Uncle` Hugh Lamont who ran a post office, and went to school at Ruaig. Moved to the mainland after she married Archie McCallum. Her son Duncan has a house on Tiree.
Photograph of a young minister, ca 1900.
Sepia portrait photograph taken around 1900 of an unamed graduate who either became a minister on Tiree or was related to the MacKinnon family at Kirkapol. The original photograph was presented with two other portraits in a wooden frame that was carved by one of Hector MacKinnon`s family (Lodge Farm, Kirkapol) at Lady Victoria`s woodworking class, ca 1910. The frame was beautifully ornate but was broken during woodworm treatment in 2013. (originals stored in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1)
Photograph of Crossapol Bay with Beinn Hough in the background, ca 1910
Card-mounted, black & white photograph across Crossapol Bay with Beinn Hough in the backround. Taken from An Àird, Tràigh Bhàigh, by well-known art photographer Andrew Swan Watson around 1910. Watson worked in photography from at least as early as 1884 until around 1930, had a studio in Edinburgh, was the President of the Edinburgh Professional Photographers Society, won several European awards, and was noted for his photographs of clouds. This landscape shot may be one of the earliest ever taken. Information about Watson and his studio on label on reverse.
