Tag Archives: education and cultural services

2005.44.5

Sepia photograph of Scarinish School pupils in 1936.

Scarinish School pupils in 1936. L-R: (back row) Jeanne MacFarlane; Dixon Bennett, student teacher; Angus Munn; Donald MacDonald, Heanish; Lachie MacFadyen; Donald MacLean, Scarinish; Lachie MacKinnon; John MacDonald, Scarinish; Katie Muir (Nisbet); (middle row, including two boys on left) Iseabal Campbell, Diobedal; Neil MacKinnon, Baugh; Mimi Miller; John Peter MacDonald; Annie MacFarlane, Manse; Cathie MacDonald; Mona MacDonald; Hettie MacDonald; Flora MacFarlane, Manse; Cathie Munn; Archie MacDonald (Morag Slowther’s brother; (front row) Willie MacPhee; Netta MacLean (Martin); Katie MacLean; John MacDonald; Catriona MacKinnon; Iain MacDonald (A’ Chidsin Dubh); Mary MacArthur, Balephetrish; Mary MacKinnon, Parkhouse; Donald MacDonald; Anne MacArthur; John George MacLean. (Original in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer 3)

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2005.43.1.1

Invoice and label from Brora wool mill, 1936, found in the byres opposite Hynish House.

Invoice dated 1936 from T. M. Hunter of the Sutherland Wool Mills at Brora addressed to John Hume of Heylipol Farm for wool, plus a delivery label addressed to T. M. Hunter.

2005.13.1

Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 336, 5/2/2005.

Local news and events including the Council`s scrapping the rebuild of Tiree High School, the local councillor`s viewpoint, an update about broadband, the wind turbine feasibility study and news from the school, the WRI and the RSPB.

2004.217.1

Black and white photograph of Alan Campbell MacDougall, headmaster of Cornaigmore Secondary School.

Alan Campbell MacDougall. Raised and schooled in Oban, he graduated MA at Glasgow University in 1931. He taught briefly on Islay before transferring to Tiree in 1933 where he was promoted to headmaster of Cornaig Secondary School in 1940. He died tragically in 1969 after he fell between Tiree pier and the mail steamer ‘Claymore`.

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