Local news including the views of the newly-elected Community Council, the condition of the mains supply, the off-loading of mail and newspaper from Loganair flights, recipes, a letter from the vet about mineral deficiencies in cattle, improvements to the public hall, and news from the churches, schools, the sailing club, Boys Brigade, Womens Guild, WRI and Vaul Golf Club.
Local news including the proposed changes to the ferry service, the privatisation of Tiree airport, Tiree High School sale of work, a Gaelic poem by Neil Brownlie, the Hebridean Trust and the Skerryvore Museum, the departure of headmaster Colin O`Brien and news from the vet and WRI.
Letter dated 17/8/2003 from Derek Clarke of Balemartine giving information about three photographs.
Letter dated 17/8/2003 from Derek Clarke of Balemartine giving information about three photographs and the changeover of responsibility of the airport equipment from the RAF to the CAA..
Black and white photograph of two RAF men, Margaret Lamont and Flora MacInnes in 1968.
Ruaig in 1968. L-R: unknown RAF technician, Margaret Lamont (wife of Charlie Lamont, Ruaig), RAF Sergeant Clark, Floraidh MacInnes from Northern Ireland (Margaret`s sister), photographed before the handover of the airport to the CAA.
Black and white photograph of two RAF men having their last breakfast on Tiree in Ruaig in 1968.
Ruaig in 1968. L-R: unknown RAF technician and RAF Sergeant Clark having their last breakfast at Ruaig before handing over the running of the airport to Derek Clark and Brian Jefferson of the CAA.
Postcard album containing tinted postacrd from around Britain dating from the first quarter of the 20th century and also containing a funeral card for John MacKinnon of Kilkenneth, husband of Catherine MacDonald, who died 13/11/1911.
Audio cassette recording of Bunty Kennedy interviewed by Maggie Campbell in Coll on 8/7/2003.
Maggie Campbell talks to Bunty Kennedy of Coll in July 2003 about her early childhood and schooldays on Tiree in the 1940s, her life on Coll from the 1950s to the present day, the water and electricity supply, the postal services, fishing, past and present New Years on Coll. She sings a verse of a song by Iain MacDonald and her son, Cailean, plays a few tunes on the accordion. Bunty Ceannaideach o Colla a’ bruidhinn ri Mairead Caimbeul anns an t-Iuchair 2003 mu dheidhinn làithean sgoile ann a Tiriodh anns na ceathradan, fuireachd ann a Colla anns na coigeadan, nuair a thàinig dealan agus uisge gu Colla, am post, iasgach agus mar a bha am Bliadhna Ur air a thoirt a steach fo chionn fhada taca ris mar a tha e air a’ dhèanamh air an latha an diugh. Tha Bunty a seinn rann fo òrain Iain MacDhòmhnaill agus tha Cailean, a mac aice, a cluich am bogsa ciùil.