Colour photograph of Iain Cameron of Kenovay and his two brothers.
The three Cameron brothers – Neil, postman Iain and James – on the occasion of Neil’s wedding in Fort William around 1988.
2008.22.3
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2007.56.2
Photocopied extract from letter from Catherine Muriel MacPhail.
Extract from letter (date unknown, probably pre-World War I) from Catherine Muriel MacPhail, describing a visit to Tiree. The Post Office mentioned in the letter was probably at Cornaigmore, as the family have a photograph of it.
2006.139.3
Copied postcard of Balinoe.
Postcard of Balinoe.
2006.105.1
Box containing 110 photographic slides taken by Alex MacLeod of Hough in the 1970s. Includes people of Hough, Scarinish Harbour, archaeological sites, houses in Hough, Coop van and GPO van, plane, agriculture, Cattle Show and landscapes. Also one of the Coll boat that met the steamer. Some printed and accessioned separately.
2005.70.1
Ethel MacCallum talking about moving to a Gaelic-speaking community
Sound clip in English of Ethel MacCallum talking about moving to a Gaelic-speaking community in the 1940s.
Courtesy of Mrs Ethel MacCallum
In this recording made in June 2005, Mrs Ethel MacCallum talks to Maggie Campbell about what it was like to move as a child to a Gaelic-speaking community. During World War II, Ethel was evacuated to Tiree where she was fostered by Hugh and Kate Lamont of Ruaig Post Office.
After leaving school at fifteen, Ethel helped her foster-parents in the Post Office and on the family’s croft. A couple of years later she moved to Inverary Castle where she worked as a housemaid for the Duke and Duchess of Argyll.
By the end of her schooling Ethel had ‘nothing in her head but music’. She competed many times in national and provincial Mods, winning cups for her Gaelic singing. She was also a gold medallist in the provincial Mod at Lochgilphead in 1967.
2005.54.1
Black and white photograph of postman George Goudie in the early 1950s.
Postman George Goudie from Baugh, taken in the early 1950s.
2004.200.10
Colour photograph of Duncan MacInnes and pupils from P6/7 outside Scarinish Post Office in 1994-5.
David Hunter, Christopher Gillespie and Archie John MacKechnie from P6/7 with postman Duncan MacInnes of Ruaig outside the Post Office in 1994-5.
2004.185.1
Photocopied parcel label and stamps franked 24/7/1940.
Photocopied parcel label and three stamps franked 7th July 1940. The label was found under the lino in the donor`s house and was from a gramophone record shop in Sauchiehall St., Glasgow.
2004.169.1
Scrapbook produced by Primary 6/7 in 1994-5.
Scrapbook of 14 pages with 40 colour photographs of the children in P6/7 in 1994-5 taken around the island.
2000.30.8
Periodical `The Coll Magazine`, No. 7, 1989.
Articles about the restoration of a Coll cottage, a school trip, Community Council report, Sorisdale to Arinagour walk, postmen, the new ferry, the Coll Show, old Arinagour, the Coll Association among others.