Clear plastic garment bag from Hebridean Knitwear, decorated with a map of the Hebrides. A small knitwear factory operated on Tiree from 1969 to 1984, first at Kirkapol and then at Crossapol.
2018.93.1
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2010.16.3
Archive film about Strathclyde c 1973
DVD film from the Scottish Screen Archive about `Strathclyde`. Filmed in 1973, colour, sound. About the forthcoming new Scottish region of Strathclyde using the views of school children from the region to describe their local areas. Senior pupil at Oban High School, Lachie MacFadyen, speaks about his home of Tiree. Footage includes the old mart at Crossapol farm, the Hebridean Knitwear Factory, Scarinish harbour and travelling between Tiree and Oban to school on the ferry “Claymore”. Other areas mentioned: Dalavich, Oban, Coatbridge, Oban hostel, bus to west Loch Tarbert ferry, Tayinloan ferry, Glasgow, housing projects, Hunterston nuclear power station and industrial estate.
This can also be viewed at the Scottish Screen Archive, Glasgow.
2009.148.1
Three round, lilac, pearlised buttons from the Tiree Knitwear Factory, Crossapol, that operated between 1982 and 1985(?). Collected by Elsie MacKinnon, Kirkapol. Identical to 1999.53.1 pictured.
2004.216.1
Copied newspaper cutting about the knitwear factory in the old UF Church at Kirkapol.
Article dated May 1970 about the temporary knitwear factory in the old UF Church at Kirkapol with photographs of Hugh MacKay of Vaul in front of the church and Ann Munn (Hayes) of Crossapol finishing off a garment.
1998.283.1
Audio cassette recording of Donneil Kennedy talking to John Donald MacLean in June 1998.
Donneil Kennedy talks to John Donald MacLean (Teòn Dòmhnall a’ Mhuilinn) in June 1998 about the history of the knitwear factory, the sinking of the ferry Loch Seaforth in 1973, anecdotes about Hector Kennedy, Malcolm MacLean of Salum and John Kennedy of Crossapol, the pre-war shops on Tiree, the ghost at Island House, the appointment of vet Jimmy Wilson in 1973, the problems installing septic tanks, his uncle AndrewYoung’s war experiences, expeditions by horse and cart in the 1930s and his memories of Argyll County Council around 1970.
1998.298.1
Audio cassette recording of Neil MacLean talking to John Holliday.
Neil MacLean of Kenovay talks to Dr John Holliday in 1998 about his family, leaving school and working on his father’s croft then at Brown & Sons in Balemartine, working on the mainland and returning to Tiree as Co-op manager, managing the newly set-up Knitwear Factory at Kirkapol Free Church, the success and problems of running the business, the end product, and the new factory built at Crossapol which finally closed in 1982.
1999.51.1
Tiree knitwear polo-neck jumper in natural wool.
Tiree knitwear polo-neck jumper in natural wool.
1999.53.1
Four pearlised lilac-coloured buttons from the Tiree Knitwear factory.
2003.149.1
Black woollen woman`s cardigan with plastic bag.
Black woollen woman`s cardigan with its original plastic bag, made by `the hebridean` in the Tiree knitwear factory before 1982 .
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.