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Scarinish in the snow

Photograph of snow in Scarinish in December 2000.

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Courtesy of Danny Lapsley

This photograph was taken by Tiree’s policeman Danny Lapsley from the front of the Police Station in Scarinish during the last week of December 2000. Not since 1953 had Tiree experienced such a heavy fall of snow.

Many roads were blocked for several days; the ice and the lack of salt made for treacherous driving conditions on the few roads that were open. Snow drifts closed the runways at the airport which, together with the planned holiday cancellations, resulted in one of the longest known periods without a service aircraft.

The island’s children took full advantage of the weather to build snowmen and indulge in snowball fights. Normally falls of snow are light and melt away within a few hours.

Colour photograph of Scarinish in the snow in 2000.

Scarinish in the snow in December 2000 viewed from the police station.

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Bill Weatherston, former President of the British Orthodontic Society

Photograph of Bill Weatherston, former President of the British Orthodontic Society.

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Courtesy of Mrs Isobel Weatherston

Born in Glasgow in 1906, Bill Weatherston had originally wanted to train as a chef. He qualified in dentistry instead, training at Glasgow and Edinburgh dental schools, and won the gold medal in his year for prothesis work.

He worked in Yorkshire, Inverness and Glasgow and, during WW2, in the Army Dental Corps. One of his patients in Glasgow was working on Tiree, and on his recommendation, the family started to take their holidays in Vaul.

He bought the Reading Room in Scarinish where he set up a dental practice in 1968 and, a year later, took over the Barra practice as well, spending one week a month there. He worked until he became ill in 1983 and used to say as he looked at the view from his surgery window, “All this and a little dentistry too!”

Black and white photograph of Bill Weatherston, Scarinish.

Bill Weatherston of Scarinish, President of the British Orthodontic Society.

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Black and white photograph of Scarinish harbour.

Scarinish harbour, probably photographed in the 1930s. The building in the background known as Stòr a’ Phuirt was originally built as a church, used occasionally as a prison and latterly as a store by the owners of the Mary Stewart. It was pulled down to make roads during World War II.

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