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2000.28.6

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Black and white photograph of the laying of the corner brick for the new extension at Cornaigmore School.

Primary School teacher Miss MacDearmid laying the corner brick for the new extension at Cornaigmore Junior Secondary School in 1935. L-R: (adults) primary teacher Miss MacDearmid; headmaster Mr Morrison; Clerk of Works Mr MacBain; (children) Lachie Cameron, Balevullin; Effie MacInnes née MacDonald, Balevullin; Lottie MacLeod née MacDonald, Kilmoluaig; unknown; unknown; Morag Lamont, Balevullin; Mary MacPhail née MacKinnon, Cornaigmore; Anna Lyons née MacKinnon, Cornaigmore; Annie MacLean/Kennedy née MacCallum Cornaigmore; unknown; Katina Lamont, Balevullin; unknown; ? MacLean, Balephetrish; Mary MacIntyre née MacKinnon, Cornaigbeg; Effie Lamont née MacLeod, Kilmoluaig; Doris MacLean née MacKechnie, Kilmoluaig. (Original 2004.217.2 in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer3)

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2000.28.17

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Calum and Archibald Lamont

Photograph of Calum and Archibald Lamont burning tangles at Cornaigmore in the 1930s.

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Courtesy of Mr Archie MacKinnon

Calum and Archibald Lamont are pictured here burning kelp, known as tangle, near Clachan at Cornaigmore in the 1930s. The cooled ash cakes were collected the next morning, bagged and stored in byres until collected by puffer.

There have been three phases in the island’s kelp industry: burning the seaweed for alkalis in the late 18th and early 19th centuries; for producing iodine in the second half of the 19th century; and for alginates in the 20th century.

In the 1980s and 1990s six part-time collectors worked the beaches of the island, lifting storm-cast kelp from the high tide mark. Around 10-25 tons of the dried seaweed was taken each year from Tiree to Girvan where it was processed into alginates used in the food, pharmaceutical, textile and cosmetic industries.

Black and white photograph of Calum and Archie Mor Lamont, Cornaigmore.

Calum and Archie Mor Lamont of Cornaigmore burning tangles in 1932.

2000.28.18

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Black and white photograph of Cornaigmore School in 1933/34. L-R: (back row)
Neil MacKechnie, Duncan MacLean, Hugh MacLean, Iain Lamont, Ronald MacDonald, Donald MacLean, Gilleasbuig MacLean, Lachie MacKinnon, L-R: (2nd back row) Lachie Cameron, Donald MacKinnon, Donald Campbell, Alasdair MacDonald, Neil MacDonald, Robert Wright, Alasdair MacLean, Donald Cameron, Alasdair Campbell, J. H. MacKinnon, John Hector MacKinnon, Allan Cameron, John Pollock, Donald MacDonald, Hugh MacDonald, Hector Campbell, L-R: (middle row) Allan MacDougall, teacher, Mary MacDiarmid, teacher, Ann Cameron, Ishbel MacKinnon, Flora A. MacNeill, Margaret MacCorqudale, Mary MacKinnon, Mr Morrison, teacher, Mary Munn, Flora MacKinnon, Katie MacKinnon, ?, ?, Flora MacLachlan, teacher, Chrissie MacKinnon, teacher, L-R: (2nd front row) Ian Campbell, Lachie MacLean, Elizabeth MacLean, ?, ?, Grace Campbell, Netta Brownlie, Annie MacCallum, May MacKinnon, Mary A. C. MacDonald, Annie MacLean, Charlotte MacDonald, Peggy MacKinnon, Allan MacCallum, Michael MacLean, Hector MacKinnon, L-R (front row) Duncan MacLean, Murdoch MacDonald, Colin Kennedy, Cathie MacMaster, Sine MacKinnon, Mary Kennedy, Katina Lamont, Anne MacKinnon, Mary MacLean, Duncanina MacMaster, Meg Gunn, Catriona MacCallum, Cathie MacKinnon, Marion MacDonald, Anne McLeod, Neil McLeod, Neil Lamont, (three in front) Archie MacKinnon, Doris MacKechnie, Hugh MacKinnon.

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2000.28.19

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Black and white photograph of Dougall Lamont, Cornaigmore.

Dougall Lamont, son of Archie Lamont (Eairdsidh Mor) of Cornaigmore, died as a result of an accident aboard the `Baron Polwarth` on 3/1/1916. His remains were brought home to Tiree and interred in Kirkapol cemetery. His fellow crew members (see T16) clubbed together and bought a marble book which was placed on Dougall`s grave.

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2000.28.20

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Black and white photograph of the crew of the `Baron Polwarth` around 1916.

The crew of the Baron Polwarth around 1916. Front row: John MacKinnon, Balephetrish (1st left); possibly Walter MacDonald, Moss (2nd left); Hugh Cameron, Cornaigmore (4th left); Hector MacMillan, Cornaigmore (5th left). Back row: Charles MacDonald, Middleton (2nd left); John MacArthur, Middleton (4th left) .

 

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1997.240.1

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Audio cassette recording of Alasdair Sinclair of Greenhill, Hugh MacLean of Barrapol and Hector MacPhail of Ruaig recorded by Dr John Holliday on 9/11/1995.

Angus and Hugh MacLean, Hector MacPhail, Alasdair Sinclair and Dr John Holliday ceilidh in Greenhill in November 1995 and discuss the genealogy of the MacLeans of Rossdhu, Cornaig and Middleton and the MacDonalds of Kilmoluaig, the poems of William MacPhail of Croish and of John MacDonald of Heanish, the genealogy of the MacKinnons of Odhnasgair (Orisgeal), fiddler and clarsach player Kate Orisgeal; Hector and Hugh tell sea-faring stories and Alasdair quotes numerous riddles. Tha Aonghas agus Eòghann MhicIllEathain, Eachann MhicPhàil, Alasdair Mac na Cearda agus an Dotair Iain Holliday air chèilidh ann an Grianail anns an t-Samhain 1995, a’ rannsachaidh sloinnearachd muinntir MhicIllEathain a Rossdhu, Còrnaig agus am Baile Meadhanach agus na Dòmhnallaich a Cill Moluaig, òrain Uilleam Mhic Phàil as a’ Chrois agus Iain Dòmhnallach a Hianais, sloinntearachd clann MhicFhionghain a Odhrasgair, Ceit Odhrasgair, cluicheadair fidheall agus clàrsach; tha Eachann agus Eòghann ag innse sgeulachdan fairge agus Alasdair a’ cur iomadach toimhseachan orra.

1999.24.1

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Newspaper cutting with photograph of Cornaigmore Secondary Choir.

Cornaigmore Secondary Choir, c. 1970-1. L-R: (back row) Monica Smith, Crossapol; Christina Brown, Crossapol; Eilidh Campbell, Balemartine; Mairi MacInnes, Ruaig; May Margaret MacDonald, Balephuill; Margaret Ann Campbell, Cornaigbeg; (middle row) Eachann Donald, Vaul; Margo MacLean, Cornaigmore; Rosaleen Gillespie, Balephetrish; Eileen Leppard; Flora MacKinnon, Barrapol; Hugh Archie MacArthur, Balinoe; Eileen Lyons, Mannal; (front row) Linda MacLaughlin, Mannal; Lena MacNeill, Scarinish; Myra Gillespie, Balephetrish; Douglas Carter, Crossapol; James Dunne, Ruaig; Murdina MacDonald, Kilmoluaig; Morag MacArthur, Caoles; Lachie Campbell, Cornaigbeg.

2002.179.28

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School handbook for Tiree High School Primary Depatment 1993, with compliment slip.

Information about the school, enrolment, the school year, the primary curiculum, learning support, attendance, discipline, school clothing and kit, health and medical care, transport, emergencies, school meals, extra-currcular activities, PTA, the School Board and school terms.

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