Colour photograph of Jane and Peter Williams in March 2003.
The Baptist minister Rev. Peter Williams with his wife Jane, Health Visitor and District Nurse, at the anti-Iraq war protest bonfire held at Crossapol in March 2003.
Audio cassette recording of Annie Ellen MacQuarrie interviewed by Maggie Campbell in Coll on 10/7/2003.
Maggie Campbell talking to Annie Ellen MacQuarrie of Coll in July 2003 about her childhood and schooling in Coll in 1920s and 1930s, working in Tobermory and Glasgow, her return to Coll in the early 1950s to marry and raise a family and the changes she has seen in relation to farming, Gaelic and the schools. Maggie also talks to Bunty Kennedy about her childhood on Coll, recreation, the Coll Creamery, the Laird of Coll, farming, livestock sales and the transportation of animals by the cargo vessels `The Princess` and `The Loch Broom`. Tha Magaidh Chaimbeul a’ bruidhinn ri Anna Eilidh NicGuaire agus Bunty Cheannadach a Colla anns an Iuchar 2003 mu an leanabachd agus làithean-sgoile ann an Colla anns na 1920an ’s na 1930an, obair ann an Tobar Mhoire agus Glaschu, tilleadh gu Colla anns na 1950an airson pòsaidh agus togail chloinne, an croitearachd, an spòrs, an Taigh-bainne Cholla, Tighearna Cholla, tuathanachd, na margaidhean-sprèidh agus giùlan beathaichean anns na bàtaichean The Princess agus The Loch Broom.
Photocopied newspaper article about Rev. W. Gillies.
Article about Rev. William Gillies, who served as minister in Tiree 1906-1909 and held meetings throughout the island to explain the scheme to build a new pier.
Photocopied newspaper article about Rev. Hector Cameron.
An appreciation by a friend of the late Rev. Hector Cameron, editor of `The Tiree Bards`, who died in 1940.
Newsletter `Topics`, Vol. 1, No. 1, Autumn 1996.
Newsletter of Tiree Parish Church with a letter from the minister, Women`s Guild and church news and various other articles.
Photocopied paper `The Gospel Fisherman` by Donald Meek.
Paper by Donald Meek subtitled `The Gaelic Hymns and Cultural Perspectives of Duncan MacDougall of Tiree`.
Book `Laoidhean Molaidh` edited by Hector MacDougall.
Hymns of praise written by the Rev. Allan MacDougall of Caoles and edited by Hector MacDougall.
Black and white photograph of Rev. Hector MacPherson and his wife Cathy in 1979.
Rev. Hector MacPherson and his wife Cathy photographed in Houndwood in 1979, the year they left Tiree.
Heylipol Church in 1900
Transcription of a letter from the Rev. Dugald MacLean to the Duke of Argyll about the condition of Heylipol Church in 1900.
Courtesy of His Grace the Duke of Argyll
In medieval times Tiree was divided in two parishes, Kirkapol in the east under the Bishop of the Isles and Soroby in the west under the Abbot of Iona. In 1618 the two parishes were united with Coll. In 1865 Coll was severed from Tiree and ten years later Soroby was severed from Kirkapol.
A church at Heylipol had been built in 1839 to serve the west of the island where the greater part of the population lived. In this letter of 1900, the Rev. Dugald MacLean describes the dangerous and dilapidated state of the church despite many repairs carried out over the previous twenty years.
A new church designed by William Mackenzie was erected on the site in 1902. Of cruciform Gothic design with a bell tower over the entrance porch and large enough to accommodate 365 worshippers, the church is still in current use.
Photocopied letter dated 22/10/1900 from Heylipol manse to the Duke of Argyll.
Letter dated 22/10/1900 from the Rev Dugald MacLean to the Duke of Argyll informing him that the report on the condition of Heylipol Church omits the decayed state of the windows and suggesting that it might be cheaper to build a new church than to repair the existing one. (Bundle 2504)
