Tag Archives: regattas

1997.265.30

Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, December 1987 (3 copies).

Local news including report form the WRI, Womens Guild and Tiree Agricultural Society, recipes, Tiree Wave Classic, contribution from the minister, training courses for crofters, news from the school, the football and the regatta clubs.

1997.265.32

Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, Summer 1988.

Local news including the loss of jobs on the island, the appointment of a Welfare Rights Officer for Argyll & Bute, CalMac timetable proposals and the new ferry boat, news from the gardening and regatta clubs, the school, girl guides and WRI.

1997.265.33

Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, Winter 1988.

Local news including nursing beds at Taigh a` Ruadh, contribution from Rev George Donaldson, proposed bilingual unit at the school, KNOT, the restoration of the harbour and Lower Square, Hynish by the Hebridean Trust, the pantomime, news from the gardening and regatta clubs and the school.

1999.74.2

Cutting the ham

Photograph of a Regatta Sports Day in the 1930s.

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Courtesy of Mr Duncan MacInnes

The aim of the sport was that the participant would be blindfolded and given a knife, the ham would be swung around on a rope above them, and they would have to try to cut the rope so that the ham would fall.

Black and white photograph of Tiree regatta sports.

Cutting the ham at a Regatta Sports Day in the 1930s.