Article in Oban Times 1911 about the annual business meeting of the Scarinish Library Committee
Copy of an article published in the Oban Times on 5th Aug 1911 about the annual business meeting of the Scarinish Library Committee held within the Reading Room of the library. Chaired by Mr Hugh MacDonald, postmaster, secretary and librarian. Also present: Mr MacDiarmid, factor, Rev. D. MacPherson and Mr Kenneth MacKenzie, Scarinish. Mentions death of Dr. Buchanan.
Lists of donors to fund the purchase of the Reading Room, 1998
Lists of donors (to June 1998) and letters from funders detailing the amount of monies raised towards the purchase of the Reading Room to house An Iodhlann.
Part of a thesis on early corrugated iron buildings by Nick Thomson (Skye).
Extract from MSc Thesis about 19th and early 20th century corrugated iron buildings in the Highlands and Islands, like the Reading Room (now An Iodhlann). By Nick Thomson (of Skye) in 2004.
Black and white photograph of the Reading Room taken in 1940-1.
The Reading Room at Scarinish in 1940 or 1941.
Black and white photograph of the rear of Reading Room taken in 1941.
The Temporary Repeater Station and Radio Hut on the left and the rear of the Reading Room on the right in 1941.
Black and white photograph of Scarinish in 1941.
View of Scarinish taken from Tràigh na Sìolaig in 1941 showing the mast of the temporary Repeater Station and D. & H. MacArthur’s store on the right, and the Radio Hut and the Reading Room to the left of the shop.
Audio cassette recording of Angus Munn and Neil Johnston of Heanish talking to Dr John Holliday in November 1998.
Angus Munn and Neil Johnston of Heanish talk to Dr John Holliday in November 1998 about their schooling and teachers, delivering telegrams, the last trip of the Mary Stewart, the start of WWII, the police service during the war, the mine that damaged the Bank House, the Embarkation Unit and the Fighter Block at Heanish, Preston Potts, a trip to Scapa Flow, the police station at Heanish, shebeens, Clann Alasdair in Baugh, the Malve, horses, Cornaig police station, ceilidhs and the Reading Room.
Black and white photograph of an unknown woman beside the Reading Room in the 1930s.
Nancy MacLean of Cornaigbeg woman outside the Reading Room during an Agricultural Show in the 1930s.
Photocopied newspaper article about Tiree.
Local news about the visit from H. Cameron from Queensland, Australia whose mother came from Tiree, the AGM of the Scarinish Library Committee held in the Reading Room and the exam results at Cornaigmore School.
Photocopied newspaper article about Tiree.
Local news about a visiting artist, the arrival of cement for the new pier, the home visit of Chief Engineer John Brown of Mannal, the opening of the schools after the summer holidays, harvesting, the new club house at Vaul golf course, the end of the tourist season, the meeting of the Parish Council at the Reading Room and return from holiday of Miss Robertson to Scarinish Post Office
