Newsletter `An Tirisdeach, No 215, 12/2/2000.
Local news and events including extra money for the Council, the future of CalMac, increases in water rates and news from the youth club, RSPB, the school and An Iodhlann.
2000.34.1
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2004.164.1
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 327, 18/9/2004.
Local news and events including the new doctor Vicky Pringle, letter from Councillor Ian Gillies about the ferry service, An Talla AGM and news from the youth club, RSPB and the school.
1999.145.1
Audio cassette recording of Willie and Effie Dickie of Caoles talking to Dr John Holliday in January 1999.
Willie and Effie Dickie of Caoles talks to Dr John Holliday in January 1999 about their early life and schooling, the start of World War II, Effie’s work in the NAAFI in Tiree, dances and entertainment, rationing and egg-collecting, Willie’s time in the RAF, his arrival in Tiree, the snow in 1943, servicing aircraft, air-sea rescue, 281 Squadron, life in Nissen huts, football and table tennis, the RAF station magazine, war news on the radio and censorship, discipline, church services, RAF doctors and shortages during the war.
1998.299.1
Audio cassette recording of Angus Munn and Neil Johnston of Heanish talking to Dr John Holliday in November 1998.
Angus Munn and Neil Johnston of Heanish talk to Dr John Holliday in November 1998 about their schooling and teachers, delivering telegrams, the last trip of the Mary Stewart, the start of WWII, the police service during the war, the mine that damaged the Bank House, the Embarkation Unit and the Fighter Block at Heanish, Preston Potts, a trip to Scapa Flow, the police station at Heanish, shebeens, Clann Alasdair in Baugh, the Malve, horses, Cornaig police station, ceilidhs and the Reading Room.
2004.146.1
Copy of presentation label and title page of book donated to Cornaigmore library by James Coats.
Presentation label and title page of book `The Phonetics of the Gaelic Language` by Malcolm Mac Farlane donated to Cornaigmore library in 1906 by James Coats, Jnr of Ferguslie House, Paisley (the same benefactor who donated the library to the Reading Room). The book itself can be viewed in An Iodhlann (2017.2.5).
2004.141.1
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No 325, 21/8/2004.
Local news and events including the visit by Community of the Year Award judges, the PC awarded the Business Centre, the bottle banks, the first Farmers` Market held at the Rural Centre, a summary of a Draft Marketing Framework for Tiree and news from the RSPB, Tiree Art Enterprises and the school.
2004.134.2
Video recording of the school Nativity Plays in 2000.
Two nativity plays, one in English and one in Gaelic, performed by the Primary School in 2000
2004.134.4
Video recording of an unknown TV programme about local council services.
Programme about local council services featuring Mabel MacArthur of Sandaig, Gaelic teacher Margaret MacKay, Lachie MacArthur of Mannal, deputy headmaster Donnie Campbell of Kilmoluaig, Alasdair MacArthur of Balemartine, Murdina MacLean of Kilmoluaig, Allan MacFadyen, Maggie Campbell of Kilmoluaig and Hector MacPhail of Ruaig.
2004.133.1
Black and white photograph of Tiree High School hockey team in the early 1970s.
Tiree High School hockey team, early 1970s, with Headmaster Roy MacPherson and Home Economics teacher Helen Cameron. L-R: Christine Burns, Balinoe; Lorelei MacLellan, daughter of factor Major MacLellan; Ann Sinclair, Greenhill; Kathleen MacLean, Crossapol; Marian MacLean, Cornaigbeg; Helen MacDonald, Mannal; Morvern MacLean, Crossapol; Margaret Nugent, Balephuil; Rosemary Nugent, Balephuil; Janet MacArthur, Middleton; Sheena Wilson.
2004.133.2
Black and white photograph of Tiree High School football team in the early 1970s.
Tiree High School football team in the early 1970s with teacher Gordon Connell. L-R: (back) Hugh ‘Doodan’ MacArthur, Caoles; Lachie MacFadyen, Scarinish; Iain MacKinnon, Balephetrish; goalie Raymond Clark, Barrapol; George Straker, Mannal; John Neil Brown, Cornaigbeg; Hugh ‘Paddy’ MacInnes, Salum; (front) Archie MacFadyen, Balemartine; Douglas Rowan, Crossapol; Russell MacIver, Kilmoluaig; Donald ‘Dote’ MacDonald, Vaul; John Omand, Balephetrish; Alasdair MacInnes, Ruaig. The boy leaning over on the left is Murray Omand, Balephetrish.
