Archive film from the 1980s about `Two Men of Tiree`
DVD film from the Scottish Screen Archive about `Two Men of Tiree`. Filmed in the 1980s, colour, sound. The two men are Gavin Carter, who opened a bakery on the island, and Hector MacPhail, lobster fisherman. Both businesses were given start-up funding from the Highlands and Islands Development Board. Also featured in the film: Nester Carter (Gavin`s wife) and their four children, Donald John Kennedy (crewing for Hector), school children on the school bus and in the classroom, Milton Harbour, and “Harbour Maid” (Hector MacPhail`s fishing boat).
DVD film from the Scottish Screen Archive about `The Isles of Youth`. Filmed in 1944, colour, silent. David MacBrayne`s silent film of various island scenery in the western isles, interspersed with poetic texts. Subjects include ferries, buses, Oban, Stornoway, Harris and Harris tweed, Rodeland & St.Clements Church, Uist, Barra, Tiree including the ship “Mary Stewart” abandoned in Scarinish Harbour but still intact, Lunga, Iona, Staffa, Mull, Highland Games.
Wall calendar 2009 by Bernard D. Smith & Son – general builders and contractors
Card wall calendar (2009) by Bernard D. Smith & Son – general builders and contractors, showing a colour photograph of the coal puffer boat “Cle?shira” in Scarinish Harbour ca 1960.
Crown Estate Order for the Council of the County of Argyll to undertake works to demolish the existing pierhead at Scarinish and erect a new t-shaped pierhead.
RBS “Sense” magazine including photo of Scarinish branch and harbour
Royal Bank of Scotland “Sense” magazine, August 2009, highlighting the Scarinish branch on the back cover with a colour photograph of the bank and Scarinish harbour.
DVD compilation of six old films about Tiree created for the 2009 Feis Thiriodh film show from archive material from An Iodhlann – with accompanying programme. (1) Family holiday on Tiree 1957, (2) formation of the Crofters` Union 1985, (3) centenary of 1886 Crofters Act 1986, (4) Tiree Association sports day and first commercial flight 1929, (5) Tiree school trip to see concord at Heathrow 1984, (6) about Tiree with a ceilidh in the Lodge Hotel 1992.
Photocopy of page from photo album with old Tiree photos
Photocopied page from unknown photo album. Five poor quality images entitled (1) The Old Habour, Scarinish, Tiree, (2) The ??? Schoolhouse of Ruaig and some of the gardners at work, (3) A Kelp-Gatherer, Tiree. This is the last ???? ???? left on the island, (4) School Children, Tiree, (5) The Cottage where Neal? Died and which he refused to leave for a Glasgow Hospital.
Itinerary of European Commission officers` visit to Tiree in November 2008
Itinerary of Jon Rathjen, Head of Sustainable Places (Scottish Government) and Climate Challenge Fund, and of Neil Mitchison, Head of European Commission Office in Scotland. Visited various community groups and projects around Tiree.
