Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 437, 07/03/2009
Local news: Baptist churches sale/refurbishment; pilates schedule.
2014.115.5
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2013.122.1
Gaelic hymns and psalms from the Balemartine Baptist Church in 1988.
Printed sheet with four typewritten psalms and hymns for singing in Gaelic at a service held at the Baptist Church at Balemartine on 7th August 1988. Includes a photocopy.
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2013.79.1
Register of Members of the Tiree Baptist Church, 1874-1958
Photocopy of the Register of Members of the Tiree Baptist Church from 1874 to 1958. Lists names, townships, date admitted to membership, by profession or transfer, date membership ceased and cause, and remarks. Given to Gordon Scott by Professor Donald Meek in May 2013.
2010.18.1
Letters from former Tiree Baptist minister F.W.Taylor to Elsie MacKinnon, Kirkapol, 1939
Two handwritten letters from the former Baptist minister on Tiree, F.W.Taylor to Miss Elsie MacKinnon, Lodge Farm, Kirkapol. Both are personal sermons to the young Elsie (19 yrs) advising her to avoid ways and people who might lead her to the devil. One letter (written from Aucheneck, Deungoyne, Stirlingshire, 24.7.39) mentions the minister`s slow recovery from a serious illness.
2006.124.1
Minidisk recording of the Baptist service in An Talla on 17/9/2006, recorded by Maggie Campbell.
Forty members of the Baptist faith from Islay, Mull, Tiree and other districts took part in a service held in An Talla on 17th September 2006. Includes solos by local singers and testimony by Judith MacIntosh of Caoles.
2006.120.1
Newsletter `An Tirideach`, No. 376, 16/9/2006.
Local news and events including rare plovers on Tiree, the Scottish Outdoor Access Code, the visit of a delegation from Tiree to Finland, Baptist Church praise night and the retiral of Rev Irene Gillespie.
2006.93.17
Black and white photograph of a meeting in the Mission House in Balephuil, from Annabella MacNeill`s collection.
Meeting in the Mission House in Balephuil in the 1950s. (Original stored in filing cabinet 8 drawer 4)
2004.68.1
Audio cassette recording of Janet MacIntosh of Scarinish talking to Maggie Campbell on 21/5/2004.
Janet MacIntosh of Urvaig talks to Maggie Campbell in May 2004 about her schooldays in Balemartine, her childhood and wartime memories, Sunday customs, her travels round Scotland as a pilgrim, women’s clothing and work, baptisms in Tiree, the 19th century Baptist revival on the Ross of Mull, the Community Council, differences between the east and west of Tiree, self education, second sight and ghost stories, Tiree Bards, the hardness of life in the past with poverty, disease and the death of children; Janet finishes by singing a hymn composed by Neil MacDonald of Kilmoluaig
2004.71.1
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 320, 29/5/2004.
Local news and events including the American volunteers re-roofing the Baptist manse, the death by drowning of Anthony Pearce from Caoles, letter from Councillor Ian Gillies, the clean-up of Gott Bay and news from the Tiree Seedcorn Fund, the school, the youth club, the feis and Tiree Community Business.
2000.67.2
Audio cassette recording of a ceilidh with Angus and Nella Munn, Neil and Vivienne Johnston and Dr John Holliday in 2000.
Angus Munn and Neil Johnston talk about electrician and builder Angus MacRae who was the first man to install TVs in Tiree and had a shop in Baugh, the inebriate MacEwan who was a professional golfer, the 18-hole golf course in Scarinish, the crofts in Heanish, Angus’s relations in Heanish, Captain MacKinnon’s relationship to the Nisbets, John Munn and his shop and horse-drawn van, the puffer Mary & Effie unloading at Port a’ Mhuilinn and the fishing boats that used to sail from this harbour.