Local news including the wreckage of Chay Blyth`s boat in Port a` Mhuilinn, the re-assessment of Council Tax Valuation Banding, the weather, coastal erosion, Kilkenneth 3 by Sandy MacKinnon, trees on Tiree, the sighting of a golden eagle at Milton and the forthcoming botanical survey of Tiree.
Photocopied extract `The Buildings of Scotland – Argyll and Bute` by Frank Arneil Walker, pp 594-600.
Descriptions of townships and buildings, churches and chapels, burial grounds and cemeteries, monuments and memorials, duns, forts and broch, standing stones, airport and piers, Sandaig museum, Skerryvore and the Hynish complex.
Photocopied photographs of Dr Isabella MacDonald and her father Donald MacDonald.
L-R: Dr Isabella MacDonald, sister-in-law of Duncan MacLean of MacHair House, Ruaig, and who emigrated with the MacLean family to Canada after WWII; Isabella`s father, Duncan MacDonald from Harrapol, Skye (b. 1859), brother-in-law of Rev. Allan MacDougall of Milton.
Black and white photograph of the motor launch used between Hynish and Skerryvore.
The teak motor launch in the process being built by a Chinese carpenter and Captain Donald MacDonald of Milton on board his vessel in the late 1920s early 1930s. It was used to take surveyors from Hynish to Skerryvore.
Black and white photograph of the MacArthur boys of Milton.
The MacArthur boys in Milton with their father`s boat in the late 1920s early 1930s. L-R: Donald (father of Iain MacArthur, Milton), Neil and Hugh Archie.