Tag Archives: education and cultural services

1997.265.46

Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 11, 26/9/1990.

Local news including CalMac`s Sunday sailing from Mallaig, visit by Minister for Transport Cecil Parkinson, the retiral of teacher Dolly Cameron, the refurbishment of the Co-op, changes in the dental services and news from the school and gradening club.

1997.265.10

Newsletter `Fios agus Fathunn`, No. 10, 1982 (3 copies).

Local news including the proposed closure of the knitwear factory, a letter from the Director of Water about the muddy mains water, the continuing off-loading of mail and newspapers from Loganair flights, news from the church, the school, Vaul Golf Club, the Regatta Club and the Boys Brigade, a letter from the vet about vaccination of of calves, the weather and bird-watching.

1997.265.27

Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, Spring 1987.

Local news including the mains supply, pedestrian access to the pier, nursing beds at Taigh a` Ruadh, obituary for and poem by Rev Hector MacPherson (minister on Tiree 1973-8), article in Gaelic by Neil Brownlie, news from WRI, the hall committee, the football club, the churches, Tiree Association, the school and Tiree Agricultural Society.

1997.265.49

Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 14, 14/11/1990.

Local news including safety fears over the road to the Hynish, fire alarms at Taigh a` Ruadh, the crisis in crofting as sheep and cattle prices plummet, news from the school and from MP Ray Michie.

1997.265.92

Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 55, 3/2/1993.

Local news including the suspension of BT`s compensation scheme, the air ambulance service, an account of the wreck of the SS Vivo on Balevullin beach in 1890 by Sandy MacKinnon, the weather, and news from the playgroups, the school librarian and the Crofters Union.

1997.265.11

Newsletter `Fios agus Fathunn`, No. 11, 1982.

Local news including unofficial dumping, the continuation of the knitwear factory under new management, a letter from the vet about blackleg in cattle, a list of Gaelic books, news from the church, Cornaig School, WRI, Vaul Golf Club, Tiree Sailing Club and the playgroup.

1997.265.28

Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, Summer 1987.

Local news including nursing beds at Taigh a` Ruadh, township dumps, the Hebridean Trust`s purchase of part of the Skerryvore complex at Hynish, NFU report, Gaelic poem by Sandy MacKinnon, contribution by Rev George Donaldson and news from the Boys Brigade, WRI, golf club and the school.

1997.265.95

Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 58, 17/3/1993.

Local news including the numbers of houses in Council Tax bands D-F, protests at the shipment of nuclear fuel through the Minches, the weather, news from the school librarian, waste recycling and an article about the Tiree entry in Kelly`s 1926 Directory of Scotland by Les Crawte and Reg Knapman.