Colour postcard photograph of four dipping lug-sail boats racing off Scarinish during a Tiree Regatta in around 1990.
2021.6.2
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2021.6.1
Colour postcard photograph of spectators watching a swimming race in Scarinish Harbour during a Tiree Regatta in around 1990.
2021.5.1
Page from an unknown publication with a photograph titled ‘Major LA Clowes, Tenant of the Duke of Argyll’s shoot on the Isle of Tiree’, 1946. Major Legh Algernon Clowes (1901-1987) of Norbury Hall, near Ashbourne in Derbyshire, served in the 1st Derbyshire Yeomanary in 1933 and was the High Sheriff of Derbyshire.
2021.4.5
Photograph of Donald Quintin Campbell’s notice of employment by the GPO, commencing at Scarinish in October 1947. Donald was one of Tiree’s first and longest-serving GPO engineers.
2021.4.4
Colour photograph of GPO engineer Donald Quintin Campbell’s Imperial Service Medal awarded to him for his “meritorious services”. Donald was one of Tiree’s first and longest-serving GPO engineers.
2021.4.3
Black & white photograph of GPO engineer Donald Quintin Campbell standing at the GPO’s Test Desk in Oban in the late 1970s. Donald, or Donnie or DQ as he was known, was one of the first and longest serving telephone engineers on Tiree.
2021.4.2
Black & white photograph of GPO engineer Donald Quintin Campbell standing by his company van in summer 1950. Donald, or Donnie or DQ as he was known, was one of the first and longest serving telephone engineers on Tiree. He was sent to the island for a few months under protest in 1948, but ended up staying for 21 years. In 1954, Donald married Jessie MacLean Kennedy of Kilmoluaig, and they lived in Machair House, Ruaig, which was owned by the GPO at the time.
2021.4.1
Black & white photograph of General Post Office (GPO) engineer Donald Quintin Campbell standing by his company van in 1950. Donald, or Donnie or DQ as he was known, was one of the first and longest serving telephone engineers on Tiree. He was sent to the island for a few months under protest in 1948, but ended up staying for 21 years. In 1954, Donald married Jessie MacLean Kennedy of Kilmoluaig, and they lived in Machair House, Ruaig, which was owned by the GPO at the time.
2021.3.4
Music CD ‘River to Sea – from Tlell to Tiree’ by Sheila Cameron, Canada, ca 2018. Collection of songs mostly associated with the Tlell River on the island of Haida Gwaii, NW Canada, but moving on the shores of Tiree where the track ‘All you need is the sea’ was written.
2021.3.3
Two small card programmes listing office-bearers and activities for (1) Tiree Association session 1972-73, and (2) Comunn Gaidhlig Ghlaschu / The Gaelic Society of Glasgow session 1973-74.
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