Tag Archives: cattle

1997.265.23

Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, Winter 1985.

Local news including nursing beds in Taigh a` Ruadh, winter grazing rights on the Reef, Annual Gathering of the Tiree Association, article by Rev. George Donaldson, news from the school, golf club, Boys Brigade and the Public Hall Committee.

1997.265.47

Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 12, 10/10/1990 (2 copies).

Local news including livestock transportation, windsurfers, the nurses, article about Craignish by Sandy MacKinnon, visit by MP Ray Michie, the new dentist Mr Price from Tobermory, and news from the golf club, the heritage society and Comunn Feis Thiriodh.

1997.265.49

Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 14, 14/11/1990.

Local news including safety fears over the road to the Hynish, fire alarms at Taigh a` Ruadh, the crisis in crofting as sheep and cattle prices plummet, news from the school and from MP Ray Michie.

1997.265.104

Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 67, 22/9/1993.

Local news including the decision of the hall committee to keep under-14s out of licenced dances, the new CalMac summer timetable, AIE`s investment of £193,000 in Tiree, lamb and cattle sales, book fair, Kilkenneth 5 by Sandy MacKinnon, article about baker Gavin Carter, the weather and news from the school`s chess club.

1997.265.11

Newsletter `Fios agus Fathunn`, No. 11, 1982.

Local news including unofficial dumping, the continuation of the knitwear factory under new management, a letter from the vet about blackleg in cattle, a list of Gaelic books, news from the church, Cornaig School, WRI, Vaul Golf Club, Tiree Sailing Club and the playgroup.

1997.265.13

Newsletter `Fios agus Fathunn`, No. 13, Autumn 1982.

Local news including the proposed referendum to decide whether Tiree would be better as part of the Western Isles rather than Strathclyde, an article in support of joining the Western isles by J. A. Munro, letter from the vet about compulsory treatment of cattle for warbles, and news from the churches, the school, playgroup, WRI, Tiree Sailing Club and Vaul Golf Club.

1997.265.22

Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, Autumn 1985 (2 copies).

Local news including the arrival of BT engineer Jim MacNaughton and family, also Malcolm O`Dea (Radar Station) and family, the upgrading of townships roads, the deterioration of the mains water, information on AI, sheep fecundity and unltrasonic scanning by vet Pat Boyd, RAF 518 Squadron reunion, article by Argyll & Bute Archivist Murdo MacDonald, school news, unemployment benefit, article about Rev. Donald MacCallum and a poem both in Gaelic by Neil Brownlie, Tiree Association, the history of Cornaig mill and a contribution from Rev George Donaldson.

1997.246.1

Binder `The Island of Tiree 1941 – 1943` containing an account of George Holleyman’s time on Tiree, plus 123 related photographs.

Account by RAF policeman and amateur archaeologist George Holleyman FSA of his time on Tiree between September 1941 and June 1943. Includes seventy-five photographs taken on Tiree by George Holleyman between September 1941 and June 1943, and forty-eight black and white photographs/postcards taken by unknown photographer(s). George Holleyman carried out significant amounts of pioneering archaeological work in Sussex  during the first half of the 20th century along with Drs. Eliot and Cecil Curwen. He was made a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries  in 1949.