Photograph of the passenger plane at Tiree Airport in 1966.
Black & white photograph of the BEA DH Heron passenger plane on the tarmac at Tiree Airport in August 1966, with an ambulance and fire equipment standing by.
2012.125.16
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2012.18.6
List of the Tiree Fire Services resources for Balemartine during 1938-1998
Copied extract from the `History of Scottish Fire Brigades` website listing the stations, Firemasters and equipment of the Balemartine non-mobile volunteer unit during 1938-1998. Firemasters include John MacPhail, Cornaigmore (1938-?), Archie MacKinnon (?-1972), Hector McNeil (1972-1977) and Ian McLeod (1977-1998).
2011.111.11
Photograph of the fire-engine bay at Tiree airport, ca 1988.
Colour photograph of the fire-engine bay at Tiree airport around 1988. L-R: Brian Milne, Archie `BEA` MacArthur, Angus MacKechnie and unknown boy. (original in filing cabinet 9, drawer 3)
2011.15.7
Photograph of Tiree Airport Fire Service personnel in 1987
Colour photograph of Tiree Airport Fire Service personnel standing in front of the fire engines and sheds in 1987. From a Bernie Smith & Sons (Contractor) calendar. Original in filing cabinet 9, drawer 3.
2005.151.1
Angus MacKechnie talking about mischief at school
Sound clip in English of Angus MacKechnie talking about the mischief he and his friends got up to on the way to Heylipol School in the 1950s and 60s.
Courtesy of Mr Angus MacKechnie
Angus MacKechnie of Crossapol was recorded talking to Maggie Campbell of Kilmoluaig in October 2005 about his schooldays. He was strapped at school, deservedly so according to himself, for breaking the ceramic insulators on the telegraph poles on the road to Heylipol School.
This was a popular sport amongst schoolchildren, in Ruaig as well as Heylipol, and required accuracy in throwing stones. A boy’s reputation depended upon success, especially if the girls, who were guilty of the same activity, scored a direct hit.
Today Angus and his wife Nancy run one of the two school buses on the island and the popular Ring ‘n’ Ride service which provides transport on request. Angus also works crofts in Crossapol, Heylipol and Moss.
2004.212.4
Cardboard envelope/holder with label `National Sailors & Firemen`s Union`.
2004.200.8
Colour photograph of P6/7 at the airport in 1994-5.
P6/7 with Airport Manager Alasdair MacInnes in front of an airport fire engine in 1994-5. L-R: (back) Helen Boyd, Cornaigmore; Karen MacArthur, Caoles; Shona MacMillan, Bank House; Suzi MacArthur, Caoles; Calum Williams, Kirkapol; Angus John MacKechnie, Crossapol; Iain Brown, Cornaigbeg; Peter MacLeod, Heylipol; Airport Manager Alasdair MacInnes, Ruaig; (front) Donald Mackinnon, Vaul; Hannah Williams, Balemartine; Lyndsay Monaghan, Heanish; Christina Cameron, Balevullin; David Hunter, Cornaigmore; Christopher Gillespie, Crossapol.
2004.169.1
Scrapbook produced by Primary 6/7 in 1994-5.
Scrapbook of 14 pages with 40 colour photographs of the children in P6/7 in 1994-5 taken around the island.
2001.59.1
Printout from donor`s website about the Volunteer Fire Brigade on Tiree.
Information about the Volunteer Fire Brigade in Tiree stationed at Scarinish and Balemartine between 1938 and 1998.
1999.280.1
Audio cassette recording of Angus MacKechnie of Crossapol talking to Maggie Campbell in December 1999.
Angus MacKechnie of Crossapol talks to Maggie Campbell in December 1999 about starting work at Edinburgh Airport fire service in 1968, returning to Tiree in 1971 when a qualified fire-fighter, the first flights from the Reef in the 1930s, the construction of Tiree airport during WWII, the people who worked at the airport, the many jobs fire-fighters were expected to do, the regular pilots, air ambulance procedures, Met Station reports, compulsory courses and air crash simulations, various stories about passenger flights and the differences between working at Tiree and Edinburgh airports.