Tag Archives: education and cultural services

2000.18.1

Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 213, 15/1/2000.

Local news and events including articles about the ferry and plane services, Social Work, the millennium celebrations, the goose count and news from the school, RSPB and Argyll College.

2000.30.3

Periodical `The Coll Magazine`, No. 1, 1983.

Stories about schooldays on Coll; a history of school transport; articles about cheese-making, poultry, bird-watching, scuba-diving, self-sufficiency; the Coll song; early travellers to Coll; camping and other local news.

2000.30.9

Periodical `The Coll Magazine`, No. 8, 1990.

Articles about seers, emigration ship `Brilliant`, fishing competitions, poetess and pauper Janet MacLean, the school, the church, model aeroplanes, ducks, views on Coll and the Community Council among others.

2000.30.10

Periodical `The Coll Magazine`, No. 10, 1992.

Articles about the lairds of Coll, holiday-makers, extract from the diary of a Swiss visitor in 1807, the school, corncrakes, the pier, Campbell of Cornaig, names, RSPB, missionary Malcolm MacDonald, midges and the Community Council among others.

2000.30.11

Periodical `The Coll Magazine`, No. 11, 1993.

Articles about 100 years ago, WWII, the emigration ship `Economy` of 1819, an around-the-world trip, shipwrecks, art rambles in Coll in 1876, a sponsored walk, local wildlife, the Comminity Council, the school and the Coll Show among others.

2000.30.12

Periodical `The Coll Magazine`, No. 13, 1995.

Articles about Skerryvore lighthouse, WWII, pigeons, RSPB, emigration and the `Brilliant`, a school trip, holiday-makers, fishing competitions, the Coll show, Project Trust and bees among others.

1998.303.1

Audio cassette recording of David MacClounnan talking to Dr John Holliday in December 1998.

David MacClounnan (Dàibhidh na Croige) of Balephuil talks to Dr John Holliday in December 1998 about his schooling, the start of World War II, the construction of Tiree aerodrome, his experiences in the Home Guard, listening to news of the war on the radio, the Italian POWs, the celebrations at the end of the war and various plane crashes.