Black and white photograph of nurse Rachel MacLean.
Rachel MacLean from Lochmaddy, North Uist, district nurse on Tiree 1940-42.
2001.113.2
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2001.114.1
Colour photograph of nurse Jessie Ann MacCallum.
Jessie Ann MacCallum, district nurse in Tiree for a few months in 1955.
2001.122.1
Black and white photograph of nurse Netta MacKinnon of Balemartine.
Nurse Netta MacKinnon of Balemartine in 1961.
2001.55.1
Nurse Catherine MacAllister
Photograph of Nurse Catherine MacAllister.
Courtesy of Mrs Mairi Campbell
Catherine McAllister was the nurse on Tiree from 1930-36. From Bruichladdich on Islay, she was the first nurse to use a motor bike and sidecar on her rounds. Before her the nurses walked or bicycled to see their patients.
Poultices were much used in those days. An islander, who was a young child with pneumonia in the 1930s, remembers the nurse coming in every day, making up oatmeal porridge on the stove and plastering it on his chest under a bandage.
She left Tiree to work as a nurse in Dalmally but returned to marry Alex MacLean from Balevullin, Argyll Estate’s Ground Officer. Sadly, she was drowned in Glasgow in July 1950 and is buried in Soroby cemetery. Her husband died a few months later in the dentist’s chair in Oban.
Black and white photograph of nurse Catherine MacAllister in the 1930s.
Catherine MacAllister from Bruichcladdich, Islay, nurse on Tiree from 1930-36. She was the first to use a motorbike and sidecar on her rounds.
2001.56.7
Black and white photograph of Flora MacKinnon nee MacLean of Balevullin in 1968.
Flora MacKinnon nee MacLean feeding the pet lamb in Balevullin in 1968 with her future husband Neil MacKinnon in the background waiting to take her out.
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Nurse Flora MacLean of Balevullin
Photograph of Nurse Flora MacLean of Balevullin.
Courtesy of Mrs Flora MacKinnon
Flora MacLean of Balevullin was a nurse in Glasgow at the beginning of the 20th century. While working with children in the city she contracted tuberculosis. Her career finished, she left the pollution of the city for the sunshine and fresh air of her native island.
At the back of her thatched house in Balevullin she set up a tent where she lived much of the year. Her house was one of the few on Tiree with a back door which faces west, the direction of the prevailing wind. Most Tiree houses, until recently, have been built ‘back to the wind, face to the sun’.
She died in 1918 and is buried at Soroby. Her niece, Flora MacKinnon, also lives in Balevullin and is one of the island’s district nurses.
Black and white photograph of nurse Flora MacLean of Balevullin.
Nurse Flora MacLean of Balevullin who died in the 1920s, an aunt of nurse Flora MacKinnon of Balevullin.
2001.168.1
Colour photograph of Practice Nurse Becca Gray in 2001.
Practive Nurse Becca Gray photographed by Dr John Holliday at Baugh surgery in July 2001.
2001.168.2
Colour photograph of Health Visitor and District Nurse Jayne Dearing in 2001.
Health Visitor and District Nurse Jayne Dearing photographed by Dr John Holliday at Baugh surgery in July 2001.
2001.162.1
Information about Tiree nurses from Mairi MacFarlane, Cornaigbeg.
Information about Tiree nurses Janet MacLean, Flora MacKinnon, Catriona Ingram, all of Creagan Breac, and Flora Maclean of Port na Criche by Mairi MacFarlane of Cornaigbeg.
2000.133.2
Audio cassette recording of Annie MacPhee from New Zealand talking to Maggie Campbell in June 2000.
Annie MacPhee of New Zealand talks Maggie Campbell in June 2000 about her childhood in Balephuil and Hynish, her schooling and teachers at Balemartine, her father’s smiddies in Hynish and Balinoe, her family’s emigration to New Zealand in 1927, the help they received from Tirisdeach Donald MacLean in acquiring a sheep station, and the party arranged for her family’s visit to Tiree by Lachie and Sandra Brown.