Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 331, 13/11/2004.
Local news and events including the relocation of Civil Service jobs to Tiree, Christmas parties, fund-raising for Baugh surgery, the Bikers Casual Club, NHS 24. a news release from Tiree Development Partnership and news from the Business Centre, the SWRI, the school and the RSPB.
Black and white photograph of James Hector MacDonald in Canada.
James Hector MacDonald (Seumas Alasdair), Chrissie MacKechnie`s father, at the front with fellow patients outside a sanitorium in Canada.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 328, 5/10/2004.
Local news and events including stockproofing Crossapol, column by local MSP George Lyon about NHS provision in Argyll, an article by Peggy Cameron about the Guelph Tiree Gathering, part 3 of Gordon Scott`s tour of Hebrides and news from the RSPB, the school, the SWRI, An Talla, the Rural Centre and the Development Partnership.
Audio cassette recording of Angus Munn and Neil Johnston of Heanish talking to Dr John Holliday in November 1998.
Angus Munn and Neil Johnston of Heanish talk to Dr John Holliday in November 1998 about the Heanish bard, sailors, the Land League in Tiree, cobblers, Donald Lamont and his family, boarded-out children, stories about Stanley Swan and Jack MacEwan, the history of Baugh guesthouse, stories about the owners of the guesthouse, the fever hospital, a boatbuilder from Heanish, the boats he built and the people who worked with him.
Audio cassette recording of Janet MacIntosh of Scarinish talking to Maggie Campbell on 21/5/2004.
Janet MacIntosh of Urvaig talks to Maggie Campbell in May 2004 about her schooldays in Balemartine, her childhood and wartime memories, Sunday customs, her travels round Scotland as a pilgrim, women’s clothing and work, baptisms in Tiree, the 19th century Baptist revival on the Ross of Mull, the Community Council, differences between the east and west of Tiree, self education, second sight and ghost stories, Tiree Bards, the hardness of life in the past with poverty, disease and the death of children; Janet finishes by singing a hymn composed by Neil MacDonald of Kilmoluaig
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No 317, 17/4/2004.
Local news and events including the progress with the tank farm development, news from the councillor Ian Gillies, Tiree soldiers in Iraq, report from Janet MacIntosh on the NHS strategy for Argyll, the return of the Coll whale`s jawbones and the Scottish Executive`s proposal for reform of local government elections.
Compulsory Vaccination notice issued on the birth of John MacKinnon, Lodge Farm in November 1885.
Compulsory Vaccination notice issued on the birth of John MacKinnon, Lodge Farm in November 1885.
Tirey
Transcription of an extract from ‘Tirey’ in ‘The Rev. Dr. John Walker’s Report on the Hebrides of 1764 and 1771’ edited by Margaret M. MacKay.
Courtesy of John Donald Publishers
The Rev Dr John Walker, minister of Moffat and a pioneer of scientific botany and geology, was sent to the Hebrides in 1764 and 1771 by the Commission for Annexed Estates to report on the social conditions, population and the state of manufacture, agriculture and fisheries.
He found the waters round Tiree teeming with fish but no fishing equipment on the island. In 1792, Rev Archibald McColl lamented that the local fishermen seemed unable to compete with those from other islands or the east coast who were taking full advantage of the nearby fishing banks.
The reasons for this he attributed to the daily involvement of crofters with their land and animals and to their poverty which disinclined them to risk what little savings they had purchasing equipment easily lost in bad weather.
Paperback book `Crofting Years` by Francis Thompson.
The social history of crofting in the Highlands and Islands.
Hardback book `Potter`s New Cyclopaedia of botanic drugs and preparations` by R. C. Wren.
Description of plants with a brief summary of their action and uses and a note of the preparations made from them.
