Audio cassette recording of Hugh MacKinnon of Baugh talking to Dr John Holliday in January 1999.
Hugh MacKinnon of Baugh talks to Dr John Holliday in January 1999 about his early life and memories of his schooldays including the mine that blew up at Scarinish, the construction work in Tiree during the war, the station commander Preston Potts, the RAF base and plane crashes, the people living in Baugh, crofting, Dr Buchanan, the shops, his first bicycle and his father’s work. (Continued on AC90)
Audio cassette recording of Meena Knapman of Kenovay talking to Dr John Holliday in September 1998.
Meena Knapman of Kenovay talks to Dr John Holliday in September 1998 about her early holidays on Tiree in the late 1920s and 1930s staying at Heanish then Vaul, the people in Vaul, the journey to Tiree from Glasgow and transport on Tiree, the funeral of John Brown from the Scarinish Hotel, Commander Dewar of Vaul, things to do on holiday in Tiree, shops and dances, Malcolm MacLean of Salum, the airport before WWII, memories of people and places, lighthouses seen from Tiree and Captain John MacKinnon of Vaul.
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.
Colour photograph of the `Heatherbell` at Scarinish harbour in the 1980s.
The `Heatherbell` on a boat trailer at Scarinish harbour in the 1980s. Owned by Duncan MacLean of Crossapol/Caoles, she was built by the family of Hugh MacKinnon (Eoghann Ruadh) of Vaul around the 1870s.
Colour panoramic photograph of pony trekkers in 2001.
Pony trekkers on the utraid at Brock in 2001.
Black and white photograph of Malcolm MacLean of Salum and his boat `Tinnie` in 1949.
Malcolm MacLean (Calum Salum) transporting his boat `Tinnie` which won the Tiree Regatta on 14/7/1949.
Black and white photograph of John Brown of Cornaigbeg in a car.
John Brown of Cornaigbeg at the wheel of a car. He was John Neil Brown`s uncle and Pearl and Mary Brown`s father. (Original in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer3)
Black and white photograph of Captain John MacFadyen in Scarinish.
Former pier-master Captain John MacFayden (on the right) with a horse and cart on Scarinish machair. (Original in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer3)
Dr John Holliday
Photograph of Dr John Holliday outside the surgery at Baugh in 1988.
Courtesy of D.C. Thomson & Co Ltd, © 1988
This photograph of Dr John Holliday, used with kind permission of D.C. Thomson & Co Ltd, was taken outside the surgery at Baugh in 1988 for an article in the ‘Sunday Post’ about Tiree’s GP. The island is just over eleven miles long and he very rarely used his bicycle to visit patients!
Dr. Holliday came to Tiree in 1986 from Kintore, a remote Aboriginal community in the Western Desert of Australia where he was the only doctor in an area the size of Germany. The Pintupi Homeland Health Service was controlled by the local people, and the doctor and local healer, or ngangkari, worked closely together.
As in other remote areas in Scotland, Tiree’s GPs have also worked single-handedly. A new surgery was built at Baugh in 2000 and a second half-time doctor was appointed in 2004 to help care for the island’s seven hundred and twenty patients.
Black and white photograph of Dr John Holliday in 1988 by the Sunday Post.
Dr John Holliday with his bicycle photographed outside the surgery at Baugh in 1988 by the Sunday Post.
Black and white photograph of a woman driving a horse and trap.
Unknown woman driving a horse and trap, photographed in the east end of Tiree in the beginning of the 20th century.
