Black and white photograph of the exterior of Cornaig mill in 1962.
The exterior of Cornaig mill showing the mill wheel, photographed Dr Euan Mackie in 1962. (Original in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer 4)
2005.115.1
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2005.100.1
Jean MacCallum talking about school clothes in the 1940s
Sound clip in English of Jean MacCallum talking about school clothes in the 1940s.
Courtesy of Mrs Jean MacCallum
In a recording made in August in 2005, Mrs Jean MacCallum of Balevullin talks to Maggie Campbell about the clothes she wore to school in the 1940s. At the age of two, Jean was sent by Glasgow Corporation to be fostered by Alexander and Catherine Kennedy of Balevullin.
When she was fifteen, Jean was taken from Tiree by Glasgow Corporation, very much against her own and her foster family’s wishes, and placed in a Salvation Army home in Pollockshields. She was only returned to the island after her foster family took the matter to court.
Growing up on a Tiree croft, Jean developed a life-long love of the outdoors and of cattle. She later discovered that crofting was in her blood; her paternal grandmother had farmed into her eighties.
2005.101.1
Mini-disk recording of Janet Brown, Balephuil talking to Maggie Campbell in August 2005.
Seònaid Brown née MacArthur of Balephuil talks to Maggie Campbell in August 2005 about her schooling at Heylipol during World War II and afterwards at Cornaig, her school clothes, lunches, games, her classes and teachers, school discipline, evacuees and tinkers, Christmas parties, transport to school, ministers and childhood illnesses.
2005.68.1
Mini-disk recording of Hector and Archie MacKinnon of Cornaigmore talking to Maggie Campbell in June 2005.
Brothers Hector and Archie MacKinnon of Cornaigmore talk to Maggie Campbell in June 2005 about their primary school at Cornaig, how different Glasgow and Tiree were, and reminisce about the old school building and when it was renovated in 1934.
2005.70.1
Ethel MacCallum talking about moving to a Gaelic-speaking community
Sound clip in English of Ethel MacCallum talking about moving to a Gaelic-speaking community in the 1940s.
Courtesy of Mrs Ethel MacCallum
In this recording made in June 2005, Mrs Ethel MacCallum talks to Maggie Campbell about what it was like to move as a child to a Gaelic-speaking community. During World War II, Ethel was evacuated to Tiree where she was fostered by Hugh and Kate Lamont of Ruaig Post Office.
After leaving school at fifteen, Ethel helped her foster-parents in the Post Office and on the family’s croft. A couple of years later she moved to Inverary Castle where she worked as a housemaid for the Duke and Duchess of Argyll.
By the end of her schooling Ethel had ‘nothing in her head but music’. She competed many times in national and provincial Mods, winning cups for her Gaelic singing. She was also a gold medallist in the provincial Mod at Lochgilphead in 1967.
2005.66.1
Mini-disk recording of Lachie Campbell, Crossapol talking to Maggie Campbell in June 2005.
Lachie Campbell, Crossapol talks to Maggie Campbell in June 2005 about Cornaigmore as it used to be, the people who lived there and how the population of the township has diminished since he was a boy; he also talks about his time spent away from the island when he was in the army.
2005.55.3
Black and white photograph of Cornaigmore H.G. School in 1936.
Cornaigmore H.G. School in 1936. (Original in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer3)
2005.55.4
Black and white postcard of Cornaigmore H.G. School in 1936.
End view of the new Cornaigmore H.G. School in 1936. (Original in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer3)
2005.51.1
Copied newspaper article about the Congregational Chapel at Cornaig.
Article about saving the Congregational Chapel at Cornaig, suggesting it may have built by the Skerryvore stonemasons, also the state of Tiree`s listed buildings and new housing developments and comments by Councillor Ian Gillies.
2005.40.1
Album containing 38 photographs of the Congregational Chapel at Cornaig taken by Claudia Fergusin-Smyth in February 2005.
Album containing 38 photographs of the interior and exterior of the Congregational Chapel at Cornaig built by Rev Archibald Farquharson in 1856, taken by Claudia Fergusin-Smyth in February 2005.