Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 65, 25/8/1993.
Local news including speeding through Crossapol, CalMac summer timetable, retiral of manager Cathie Omand from the Co-op, improvements in the local bus service, speech by Fiona MacKinnon, Kirkapol, at a `Transport for Independent Living` conference, the privatisation of the Post Office and Kilkenneth by Sandy MacKinnon.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 69, 3/11/1993.
Local news including a reply from the hall committee to Sandy MacKinnon`s letter, the accident black spot at Baugh, an extra air ambulance stationed at Glasgow, this year`s Wave Classic, the botanical survey of Tiree, the Duke of Edinburgh`s Award Scheme, the weather and news from the golf club, the Gaelic Partnership, Tiree Association, the gardening and youth clubs.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 70, 17/11/1993.
Local news including the retiral of Councillor Donnie Campbell, the road at Baugh, letter from Donneil Kennedy, letter and article by Sandy MacKinnon, possible Disabled Forum for Tiree, news from the gun club, a recipe for whiskey cake and an article about geese from SNH.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 72, 15/12/1993.
Local news including the rise in fuel prices and the introduction of airport surcharge, the road at Baugh, the forthcoming election of new Community Council, the local bus service, visiting Social Worker Moira MacKechnie, ferry services, the weather, a face-lift for the pierhead, and news from the feis, the playgroups and Forum on Disability.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 75, 15/2/1994.
Local news including the planning application for a wind turbine at Baugh, road accidents, article about shipwrecks by Sandy MacKinnon, the weekend stay at the Hynish centre by the Gaelic Unit and news from the feis, the regatta club, Tiree Art Enterprise and the Crofters Union.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, Autumn 1985 (2 copies).
Local news including the arrival of BT engineer Jim MacNaughton and family, also Malcolm O`Dea (Radar Station) and family, the upgrading of townships roads, the deterioration of the mains water, information on AI, sheep fecundity and unltrasonic scanning by vet Pat Boyd, RAF 518 Squadron reunion, article by Argyll & Bute Archivist Murdo MacDonald, school news, unemployment benefit, article about Rev. Donald MacCallum and a poem both in Gaelic by Neil Brownlie, Tiree Association, the history of Cornaig mill and a contribution from Rev George Donaldson.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 14, 14/11/1990.
Local news including safety fears over the road to the Hynish, fire alarms at Taigh a` Ruadh, the crisis in crofting as sheep and cattle prices plummet, news from the school and from MP Ray Michie.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 19, 13/2/1991.
Local news including the proposed linkspans for Tiree and Coll, the sale of Sruthan Stores in Crossapol, article about pigs bred on Tiree, heart checks at the surgery and the continuation of the article about Balevullin by Sandy MacKinnon.
Photocopied notice to contractors requesting tender for road construction at East Hynish and Greenhill.
Notice to contractors requesting tender for road construction at East Hynish and Greenhill issued by the Board of Agriculture for Scotland on 14/10/1914..
The Co-op van at Vaul in the 1940s
Photograph of the Co-op van at Vaul in the 1940s.
Courtesy of Mrs Nan MacClounnan
This photograph, taken at Vaul in the mid-1940s, shows Catriona MacKinnon of Vaul with Margaret Doig, deputy Co-op manager Archie Robertson from Tobermory, a visitor, and van driver Neil MacNeill of Scarinish standing in front of one of the Co-op vans. A second van driven by Rob MacMaster served the west end of the island.
The vans carried a selection of basic groceries which at Christmastime included extras such as cakes and shortbread and small presents like socks and handkerchiefs. They made their rounds of the island every day of the week except Sunday and Monday.
Sometime in the 1960s the Co-op reduced their service to a single van driven by Rob MacMaster who would call at each township once a week. This ceased altogether in the early 1970s.
Black and white photograph of the Co-op van at Vaul in the 1940s.
The co-op van at Vaul in the 1940s. L-R: Catriona MacKinnon; Margaret Doig; Lorna and Morag Lee; Neil MacNeill (Cathy MacNeill`s husband).
