Janet MacIntosh was recorded in August 2005 talking to Maggie Campbell of Kilmoluaig about her schooldays in Balemartine in the 1940s. She remembers how ‘wonderful’ hot school dinners were compared to packed lunches.
When she was a child, the diet on Tiree was plain and simple. White and brown flour and oatmeal came in hundredweight bags and were stored in the ‘girnel’, a wooden chest with a lid and internal partitions, that kept the mice out. Housewives baked every day.
More fish was eaten than meat; there were few vegetables other than potatoes and no fruit. Food from the shore was also eaten: soup made with whelks (winkles) and oatmeal, or with dulse, and milk puddings made with carrageen.
Local news and events including Rosemary Omand`s 35 years service at the bank, Tiree`s team in Stramash`s Adventure Race, `Take the Floor` recorded at An Talla, houses for sale at the Tank Farm, Kate Brown and Neil MacCallum`s wedding, article by Councillor Ian Gillies, report on the Tiree Association AGM, the `Raising Cain` gig, the WRI sponsored walk and news from the Golf Club, Youth Club and Tiree Community Broadband.
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.
Mini-disk recording of Mary Cameron of Balevullin talking to Maggie Campbell in June 2005.
Mary Cameron of Balevullin talks to Maggie Campbell in June 2005 about her primary schooling at Balemartine and secondary schooling at Cornaig, the games they played, and the clothes they wore walking to and from school.
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.
Six colour photographs of the opening of An Iodhlann and the exhibition in 1999.
Two colour photographs of the opening of An Iodhlann in July 1999, one of the exterior of the building with the mine shell and three of the exhibition `Wind that Shook the Barley`, all taken by Mary Norton in 1999.
