Tag Archives: churches

1999.196.5

Newsletter `Fios agus Fathunn`, No. 5, 1981.

Local news including a BBC programme about the Benefits Bus, a Thomson Holidays Travel game won by pupils of Cornaig School, extracts from the Community Council minutes, and news from the churches, WRI, playgroups and the golf club.

1997.265.6

Newsletter `Fios agus Fathunn`, No. 6, 1981.

Local news including Strathclyde Regional Structural Plan, a Gaelic song by George Campbell of Cornaigbeg, the mains water supply, the coastguard, the Community Enterprise Porgramme, thatched houses, the churches, birdwatching and a marine survey of Tiree and Coll.

1997.265.9

Newsletter `Fios agus Fathunn`, No. 9, 1982.

Local news including complaints about the muddy state of the mains water, news from the Boys Brigade , Vaul Golf Club, Cornaig School and the churches, spoke Gaelic on Tiree and house insulation.

1997.243.1

Three anecdotes about ‘the Goilear’

Sound clip in English of Hector MacPhail telling three anecdotes about ‘the Goilear’.

Hector MacPhail of Ruaig gave a talk at Vaul Golf Club in November 1996, during which he told three humorous anecdotes about a fisherman from Balevullin nicknamed ‘the Goilear’.

2003.117.1

Audio cassette recording of Annie Ellen MacQuarrie interviewed by Maggie Campbell in Coll on 10/7/2003.

Maggie Campbell talking to Annie Ellen MacQuarrie of Coll in July 2003 about her childhood and schooling in Coll in 1920s and 1930s, working in Tobermory and Glasgow, her return to Coll in the early 1950s to marry and raise a family and the changes she has seen in relation to farming, Gaelic and the schools. Maggie also talks to Bunty Kennedy about her childhood on Coll, recreation, the Coll Creamery, the Laird of Coll, farming, livestock sales and the transportation of animals by the cargo vessels `The Princess` and `The Loch Broom`. Tha Magaidh Chaimbeul a’ bruidhinn ri Anna Eilidh NicGuaire agus Bunty Cheannadach a Colla anns an Iuchar 2003 mu an leanabachd agus làithean-sgoile ann an Colla anns na 1920an ’s na 1930an, obair ann an Tobar Mhoire agus Glaschu, tilleadh gu Colla anns na 1950an airson pòsaidh agus togail chloinne, an croitearachd, an spòrs, an Taigh-bainne Cholla, Tighearna Cholla, tuathanachd, na margaidhean-sprèidh agus giùlan beathaichean anns na bàtaichean The Princess agus The Loch Broom.

2000.53.1

Photocopied extract `The Buildings of Scotland – Argyll and Bute` by Frank Arneil Walker, pp 594-600.

Descriptions of townships and buildings, churches and chapels, burial grounds and cemeteries, monuments and memorials, duns, forts and broch, standing stones, airport and piers, Sandaig museum, Skerryvore and the Hynish complex.