Hardback book `The Tobermory Treasure` by Alison McLeay.
The story of the Tobermory Galleon and its treasure.
2000.157.2
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Tag Archives: boats and water travel
2004.32.1
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 316, 3/4/2004.
Local news and events including the fire at Milton harbour and the Milton Fishermen`s Fund, the `Generations` CD from Australia, the whale jawbones missing from Coll, CalMac summer timetable, prize-winning baby Michael MacDonald from Crossapol, the Tank Farm Development and news from the RSPB, the Feis, An Talla committee and the Youth Club.
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.
2001.171.1
Audio cassette recording of Charlie MacLeish talking to Maggie Campbell on 19/9/2001 at his home in Sandaig .
Charlie MacLeish of Sandaig talks to Maggie Campbell in September 2001 about his childhood memories of Tiree in the 1940s, the people and the houses in Sandaig and how the place has changed since he was a boy; Charlie also talks the plane and ferries services and how they have changed.
2001.154.1
Audio cassette recording of Carol and Mrs Stoker of Scainish talking to Maggie Campbell in August 2001.
Carol and Mrs Stoker of Scarinish talk to Maggie Campbell in August 2001 about their holidays in Tiree and the changes they’ve seen since the 1960s in the shops, old people’s home, holiday houses, dances, the fencing of common grazing, ferries, the telephone exchange, golf course, farming and the increase in caravans on the island.
2000.165.3
Hardback book `Summer Tours in the Western Highlands & Islands of Scotland`.
Official 1913 guide book to summer tours in the Western Highlands & Islands of Scotland by the Royal Mail Steamers `Columba`, `Iona`, etc, of David MacBrayne Ltd.
2000.185.4
Paperback book `Never broken in a sea` edited by Mary Norton.
The story of the Grimsay work boats as told to the editor by the present Stewart builders, Grimsay fishermen and people throughout the Uists.
2000.185.3
Paperback book `The Brendan Voyage` by Tim Severin.
The story of the epic journey across the Atlantic in a leather boat.
2000.225.3
Paperback book `The Voyage of the Pharos` by Walter Scott.
The diary of Walter Scott on a voyage with the Commissioners of the Northern Lights round Scotland in 1814 (for Tiree see page 111).
2001.156.12
Colour photograph of the traditional sailing boat`Oigh Niseach` in 2001.
The sgoth `Oigh Niseach` owned by Simon Isaacson competing in a Tiree regatta in August 2001.
