Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 38, 11/3/1992.
Local news including continuing petrol crisis on the island, complaints about CalMac during the recent stormy weather, the numbers on Tiree who smoke, payment by patients in the Continuing Care Unit, public transport, WWII Roll of Honour, article about homeopathy by Associate GP Dr Maslin, and memories of Tiree in the 1930s by Meena Knapman.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 5, Winter 1984.
Local news including ferry timetables, the mains water, hospital beds at Taigh a` Ruadh, grazing on the Reef, upgrading the public hall, recipes, crofting, RAF Tiree, and news from the churches and the school.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, Summer 1985.
Local news including the arrival of Dr Boulind and family, the improvement in the mains supply, car parking in Scarinish, a Gaelic poem by Neil Brownlie, Strathclyde concessionary fares scheme, RAF Tiree, news from the Guides, WRI, the churches, golf club, coastguard and cub scouts.
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`, Summer 1989 (2 copies).
Local news including an extract from John Walker`s Report on the Hebrides of 1764 and 1771, an obituary for Neil MacLaine Cameron, one Gaelic and two English poems by Neil Brownlie, article by a child evacuated to Tiree during the war, news from the school, WRI, golf club and the hall committee.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 9, 13/6/1990.
Local news including CalMac`s 1991 summer timetable, the new bilingual unit at the school, the Sandaig museum run by the Hebridean Trust, the school swimming trip and annual clean-up, the visit by ex-RAF Tiree airmen and an article in Gaelic about Lady Victoria Campbell by Mary Flora Campbell.
Cardboard seed box stamped `The British War Relief Society`.
Cardboard box measuring 180 mm x 120 mm x 70mm and stamped with `The British War Relief Society – A gift of seeds from the United States of America` and found in the Nutts` house in Balemartine.
Binder `The Island of Tiree 1941 – 1943` containing an account of George Holleyman’s time on Tiree, plus 123 related photographs.
Account by RAF policeman and amateur archaeologist George Holleyman FSA of his time on Tiree between September 1941 and June 1943. Includes seventy-five photographs taken on Tiree by George Holleyman between September 1941 and June 1943, and forty-eight black and white photographs/postcards taken by unknown photographer(s). George Holleyman carried out significant amounts of pioneering archaeological work in Sussex during the first half of the 20th century along with Drs. Eliot and Cecil Curwen. He was made a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1949.
The Tiree Home Guard
Photograph of the Tiree Home Guard during World War II.
The Home Guard, initially known as the Local Defence Volunteers, was created in 1940 to defend Britain against a possible German invasion. At first they were very poorly armed; it was not until 1943 they were a properly trained and equipped force.
The Tiree Home Guard was organised under the factor MacLaren and the gamekeeper Graham. There were weekly drills with parade ground work, sentry duty and shooting practice. Lookouts were posted at various vantage points around the island: Ben Hough, the Signalling Tower at Hynish, Tur Mhic Chaluim in Kilkenneth, Cnoc Ibrig at Baugh and the broch at Caoles.
Following the successful Allied offensive in France and the drive towards Germany, the Home Guard were formally stood down in December 1944 and finally disbanded a year later
Black and white photograph of Tiree Home Guard.
The Tiree Home Guard during World War II.
Black and white photograph of a group of Cameronians (Scottish Rifles, 52nd Battalion) in 1940 or 1941.
Group of Cameronians (Scottish Rifles, 52nd Battalion) in 1914-1915. Second left in the front row is Hugh MacKinnon of Brock (Alasdair Sinclair`s uncle).
