Photograph of Mrs ? MacLean in front of Hynish House circa 1950
Sepia photograph of Mrs ? MacLean standing next to a horned black & white cow outside Hynish House during the 1940s or 1950s. (Original stored in filing cabinet 9 drawer 3)
Letter in The Scots Magazine, Dec. 2009, from “Barrow Boy” Peter MacLeod (b. 1933) about his childhood on Tiree ca 1936.
Photocopy of a page from The Scots Magazine, Dec. 2009, showing a black & white photograph of a very young Peter MacLeod with his wooden wheel-barrow in Ruaig School playground ca 1935/36, and his letter to the magazine in 2009. The letter tells of the coal puffers beached at Gott Bay and collecting cow-pats in summer for fuel. Peter was the son of the Head Teacher at Ruaig School and was born on Tiree – he classed himself as a Tiree man and spoke Gaelic. He became the Manager of the Royal Bank of Scotland in Argyll Square, Oban. Now retired.
Information about the Tiree Cattle Health Group and Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD)
Guide to the Tiree Cattle Health Group and leaflet about protecting Tiree cattle from Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD).
Catalogues for livestock sales at Tiree Rural Centre in 2007 and 2008
Three catalogues produced by United Auctions listing the sellers` names and stock for sale of cattle and sheep at the Tiree Rural Centre on 27th October 2007, 9th February 2008 and 1st May 2008.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 410, 16/2/2008.
Local news and events including the dispute between the trade union Unison and the Council, the wind turbine, Crossapol enterprise zone, youth worker post, the harbour project, an interview with Ian Gillies, the Council budget, a school trip to Glasgow and the results of the cattle sale on 9th February.
Journal extract `Crofters` Common Grazings in Scotland` by James R. Coull.
Paper on common grazings in Scotland with references to Kenovay, Salum, Barrapol, Hough, Balephuil, Ruaig, Hynish and the Reef.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 397, 11/8/2007.
Local news and events including Rona Campbell skippering the `Clansman`, Gaidhlig air a` Bhata, Council concerns over foot and mouth outbreak and July`s regatta.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 387,17/3/2007.
Local news and events including the new interactive touch screens, article by local councillor Ian Gillies, a new campsite at Balinoe, the results of the United Auction cattle sale in February, and updates from the WRI and RSPB.
Photocopied page about a prize-winning Charolais cross-heifer called `Hillcrest Honey`.
Article about Neil MacKinnon and a prize-winning Charolais cross-heifer called `Hillcrest Honey`, with photographs.
Black and white photograph of Eileen and Margaret MacDonald in Scarinish in 1940-1.
Eileen Witherow and Margaret MacDonald with a milking cow in front of ‘Blairgarry’ in Scarinish. Margaret stayed there while her father worked with the Post Office on the radio station in 1940-1. Mrs Anderson, their landlady is at the porch of the house.
