Tag Archives: individual contests

2004.63.12

Three sporting medals and a photograph mounted and framed, 1952-54

Three sporting medals and a black & white sports-team photograph belonging to John and Alistair MacNeill of Hynish mounted and framed: (1) medal won by John MacNeill representing Cornaigmore School at the 1952 Argyll County Sports in Lochgilphead (associated information mounted below medal), (2) Junior Championship medal won by Alistair MacNeill representing Cornaigmore School at the 1953 Argyll County Sports in Dunoon Stadium (associated information mounted below medal), (3) Intermediate Championship silver medal won by Alistair MacNeill of Hynish as runner-up at the 1954 Argyll County Sports in Campbeltown, (associated information mounted below medal, (4) photograph of the Tiree team returning from the 1953 County Sports on board the Lochearn. L-R: Billy Whiteside; Margaret Sinclair; Captain Neil Campbell; Roland Robertson, Gaelic and Latin teacher at Cornaigmore Secondary School; Archie MacIntyre; Alistair MacNeill holding Junior Championship trophy; his brother John MacNeill; Sarah F. MacDonald, Balemartine Primary headteacher.

2000.67.2

Audio cassette recording of a ceilidh with Angus and Nella Munn, Neil and Vivienne Johnston and Dr John Holliday in 2000.

Angus Munn and Neil Johnston talk about electrician and builder Angus MacRae who was the first man to install TVs in Tiree and had a shop in Baugh, the inebriate MacEwan who was a professional golfer, the 18-hole golf course in Scarinish, the crofts in Heanish, Angus’s relations in Heanish, Captain MacKinnon’s relationship to the Nisbets, John Munn and his shop and horse-drawn van, the puffer Mary & Effie unloading at Port a’ Mhuilinn and the fishing boats that used to sail from this harbour.