DVD film from the Scottish Screen Archive about `Strathclyde`. Filmed in 1973, colour, sound. About the forthcoming new Scottish region of Strathclyde using the views of school children from the region to describe their local areas. Senior pupil at Oban High School, Lachie MacFadyen, speaks about his home of Tiree. Footage includes the old mart at Crossapol farm, the Hebridean Knitwear Factory, Scarinish harbour and travelling between Tiree and Oban to school on the ferry “Claymore”. Other areas mentioned: Dalavich, Oban, Coatbridge, Oban hostel, bus to west Loch Tarbert ferry, Tayinloan ferry, Glasgow, housing projects, Hunterston nuclear power station and industrial estate.
This can also be viewed at the Scottish Screen Archive, Glasgow.
Black & white photograph of the schooner `Oceana` that ran aground and broke up at Crossapol in 1949. The dark colour of the ship in the photograph is how it would have looked when it ran aground.
Black & white photograph of the two-masted schooner `Oceana` in full sail ca. 1915 before the yacht`s refit in 1923. The Oceana ran aground and broke up at Crossapol in 1949.
Photo of the schooner `Oceana` during a refit in 1923.
Black & white photograph of the two-masted schooner `Oceana` undergoing conversion to a sailing auxilliary twin screw yacht at J. Samuel White & Co. Ltd`s shipyard in East Cowes, 1923. Good view of the figure-head. The yacht was grounded and broke up at Crossapol in 1949.
10 photographs of the old community hall at Crossapol in 2000
10 original colour photographs of the old community hall at Crossapol in 2000. The old hall was opened in 1960, demolished in 2001, and replaced by the new hall `An Talla` in 2004.
Photograph of the old community hall at Crossapol in 2000
Colour photograph of the old community hall at Crossapol in 2000. The old hall was opened in 1960, demolished in 2001 and replaced by the new hall `An Talla` in 2004. (Original stored with 9 other photos of the old hall in filing cabinet 9 drawer 2)
Seven bills/invoices for petrol and coal made out to John Kennedy, Contractor, Crossapol, 1950-54, from (1&2) Duncan MacArthur, Coal and Motor Merchant, The Store, Balemartine, (3) James H MacDonald, Joiner, Scarinish, (4) Mr MacDonald, Scarinish, (5) Scarinish Hotel, (6) Charles Lamont, Coal Merchant, Kenovay, (7) Thomas Corson & Co Ltd, Auctioneers and Live-stock Agents, West Highland Auction Mart, Oban.
