Black and white photograph of Scarinish School 1912-13.
Scarinish School 1912-3. Roderick MacKinnon (`Loo`) of Heanish is 2nd left back row. Also in photo but not identified is Neil MacDonald of Scarinish. (Copy of photo and letter from donor, Roderick`s son, is in Filing Cabinet 7 drawer 3)
Audio cassette recording of Janet MacIntosh talking to Maggie Campbell in March 2000.
Janet MacIntosh of Caoles and Balinoe talks to Maggie Campbell in March 2000 about her schooldays in Balemartine, her pastimes, the delivery of a telegram from Balinoe Post Office, wartime and the pictures, the funeral of 16 RAF crew members who died in a plane crash, monthly ceilidhs, dances and Gaelic plays, travelling shops, funerals, transport, gathering and cooking seafood and seaweed, and the health benefits of sea water.
Black and white photograph of teacher Maggie Richardson nee MacLean in the 1930s.
Maggie (Magaidh Dhòmhnaill ’ic Neilidh) Richardson née MacLean, 1907-1997, teacher at Ruaig School. She was the first woman in Tiree with a car.
Black and white photograph of siblings Marion, Neil and Maggie MacLean of Balevullin in the 1910s.
L-R: Siblings Marion, Neil and Maggie MacLean of Balevullin in the 1910s. Marion died of flu in 1918, Duncan became Tiree`s first vet and Maggie became a teacher and married Ernest Richardson.
Maggie MacLean (1907 -1997)
Photograph of Maggie MacLean of Balevullin.
Courtesy of Mrs Flora MacKinnon
Maggie MacLean of Balevullin was the Dux of Oban High School in 1925 and later graduated as a teacher. She taught locally in Ruaig School and then moved to Glasgow where she married Ernest Richardson.
Black and white photograph of siblings Maggie MacLean of Balevullin in the 1910s.
Maggie MacLean (1907-1997) of Balevullin on the day she graduated as a teacher in the late 1920s. Maggie was Dux of Oban High School in 1925, taught in Ruaig School then moved to Glasgow and married Ernest Richardson.
Black and white photograph of teacher Maggie Richardson nee MacLean in the 1920s or 30s.
Teacher Maggie Richardson (1907-1997) nee MacLean outside Sackhill, Ruaig in the 1920s or 30s.
Paperback book `A School in South Uist` by F. G. Rea.
The reminiscences of Frederick Rea, an English teacher who became headmaster of Garrynamonie School in South Uist in the 1890s.
De-accessioned 26.2.2026.
Audio cassette recording of Margaret MacIntyre of Gott talking to Maggie Campbell in June 2001.
Margaret MacIntyre of Gott talks to Maggie Campbell in June 2001 about teaching in Balemartine School in 1963 then in Scarinish School in the 1970s before moving to the new Primary Department at Cornaigmore; Margaret also talks about the differences between single teacher schools and larger primary schools.
Audio cassette recording of Vivienne Johnston talking to Dr John Holliday in March 2000.
Vivienne Johnston of Heanish talks to Dr John Holliday in March 2000 about her relations in Balemartine, coming on holiday every year as a child then as an evacuee in 1939, her stay at Taylor’s Cottage, her experiences at Balemartine School where Gaelic was the language of the playground, the kindness of the MacDonalds at Catrim, going to the pictures, the wartime plane crashes, experiences of her later life and how living on Tiree has affected her.
Report by Argyll & Bute Council `Coll and Tiree Community Learning Plan`.
Report by Argyll & Bute Council in response to a Scottish Executive request that local councils draft and submit a strategy that sets priorities and targets for the improvement of community learning.
