Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 428, 25/10/08
Local news: Wave Classic and Coll Challenge; interview with pop singer Paolo Nutini; access; Gaelic drama; SWRI meeting; interview with Becky Wright; new ambulance; Tigh a Rudha fundraiser.
Aiport Ambulance First Aid box
Large white-painted wooden chest containing First Aid equipment of the ambulance service at Tiree Aerodrome pre-1980. A typed inventory of items present includes: bandages, dressings, gauze, cotton wool, tourniquets, rescue sheets, paracetamol, pins, plasters, drinking glass, scissors and casualty labels.
Booklet `Water from the Seventh Wave` 2001
Booklet about the history of health and healing on Tiree, from superstitions and traditional remedies to lay doctors, diseases, dentists, appointed GPs, nurses and ambulance services. Researched by Dr John Holliday for a summer exhibition at An Iodhlann.
Photograph of the passenger plane at Tiree Airport in 1966.
Black & white photograph of the BEA DH Heron passenger plane on the tarmac at Tiree Airport in August 1966, with an ambulance and fire equipment standing by.
Colour photograph of Neil Munn at the Cattle Show in 2000.
Paramedic Neil Munn of Middleton at the Cattle Show at Whitehouse in 2000 photographed by Ron Hutchison.
Photocopied extract from unknown publication about ambulances.
Description of ambulances used in Mull with photographs.
Photocopied extracts from the County of Argyll Sixteenth Annual Report by the Medical Officer of Health Dr Roger MacNeill, pp 36-39, 58-59.
Recommendation that an ambulance carriage is provided for Tiree; report of two cases of diptheria and five of enteric fever in Tiree in 1906.
Photocopied extracts from the County of Argyll Seventeenth Annual Report by the Medical Officer of Health Dr Roger MacNeill, pp 46-47
The provision of a horse-drawn ambulance carriage for Tiree; reports of diptheria on Tiree, whooping cough on Coll, typhus fever in Tiree and one case of plague contact.
Colour photograph of the ambulance crew at the airport in May 2001.
The ambulance crew at the airport in May 2001. L-R: John Brady, Cornaigbeg; May Margaret MacDonald, Main Road Farm, balephuil; Neil Munn, Middleton.
Colour photograph of the ambulance crew in May 2001.
The ambulance crew in May 2001. L-R: John Brady, Cornaigbeg; May Margaret MacDonald, Main Road Farm, balephuil; Neil Munn, Middleton.
