Information document from Argyll & Bute Council Education Services about a proposed new school, 2004
Information document from Argyll & Bute Council Education Services about the proposed relocation of Tiree High and Primary Schools to a new building on a new joint campus site within the footprint of the existing site, a site plan, and the questions put to the Project representatives and their responses at meetings held on 18/5/2004.
Bill Innes talking about Captain David Barclay
Sound clip in English of former airline pilot Bill Innes talking about Captain David Barclay.
Courtesy of Mr Bill Innes
Former airline pilot Bill Innes tells a humorous anecdote about Captain David Barclay, MBE, during an illustrated talk about the pioneers of Scottish aviation held in An Talla, Tiree on 5th July 2004.
The name David Barclay is synonymous with the development of aviation in the Western Isles and with the Scottish Air Ambulance Service. He flew his first ambulance flight with Northern & Scottish Airways in 1935 and at the end of his career had flown more than two thousand ambulance missions.
He was awarded the MBE in 1942 and invested with the order of St John of Jerusalem in 1950. Much loved and well respected by those who knew him, Captain Barclay retired in April 1965 with an overwhelming send-off from islanders in Barra and Tiree.
Black and white photograph of Janet MacLean, matron of the Eventide Home.
Janet MacLean, first matron of the Eventide Home in Scarinish.
Black and white photograph of nurse Rachel MacLean.
Rachel MacLean from Lochmaddy, North Uist, district nurse on Tiree 1940-42.
Colour photograph of nurse Jessie Ann MacCallum.
Jessie Ann MacCallum, district nurse in Tiree for a few months in 1955.
Black and white photograph of nurse Netta MacKinnon of Balemartine.
Nurse Netta MacKinnon of Balemartine in 1961.
Colour photograph of nurse Helen Lane.
Helen Lane, district nurse in Tiree 1994-5.
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.
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. 320, 29/5/2004.
Local news and events including the American volunteers re-roofing the Baptist manse, the death by drowning of Anthony Pearce from Caoles, letter from Councillor Ian Gillies, the clean-up of Gott Bay and news from the Tiree Seedcorn Fund, the school, the youth club, the feis and Tiree Community Business.
