Minidisk recording of Hugh Archie MacCallum talking to Maggie Campbell in September 2005.
Hugh Archie MacCallum talks to Maggie Campbell in September 2005 about his schooldays.
2005.134.1
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2005.126.1
Newletter `An Tirisdeach, No. 353, 1/10/2005.
Local news and events including the visit of eleven Swedes, a design for a new Tiree flag, letter from the councillor and the cost of fuel freight, updates on the community wind turbine, A`Bhuain and broadband, the visit from Strathaven pipe band, United Auctions lamb and sheep sale, and news from the WRI, RSPB, Argyll College and the school.
2005.118.1
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 352, 17/9/2005.
Local news and events including a photo of this year`s Primary 1, an article about coconuts washed ashore on Tiree and letters to the editor about `wild` camping and locked gates.
2005.112.1
John Fletcher talking about writing at school
Sound clip in English of John Fletcher of Balemartine talking about the writing materials he used at school in the late 1940s.
Courtesy of Mr John Fletcher
John Fletcher talks to Maggie Campbell in September 2005 about learning to count and write at Balemartine School in the late 1940s. There were around eighty children attending the school, which was one of five on the island.
At break-time the children were given hot reconstituted National Dried Milk in tin mugs. John drank it quite happily but some of the children hated the taste, comparing it with the fresh milk they got at home.
Toilet facilities at the school were basic: buckets with blue disinfectant, two for the boys and two for the girls. These were taken down to the shore by the cleaner at night and thrown into the sea.
2005.100.1
Jean MacCallum talking about school clothes in the 1940s
Sound clip in English of Jean MacCallum talking about school clothes in the 1940s.
Courtesy of Mrs Jean MacCallum
In a recording made in August in 2005, Mrs Jean MacCallum of Balevullin talks to Maggie Campbell about the clothes she wore to school in the 1940s. At the age of two, Jean was sent by Glasgow Corporation to be fostered by Alexander and Catherine Kennedy of Balevullin.
When she was fifteen, Jean was taken from Tiree by Glasgow Corporation, very much against her own and her foster family’s wishes, and placed in a Salvation Army home in Pollockshields. She was only returned to the island after her foster family took the matter to court.
Growing up on a Tiree croft, Jean developed a life-long love of the outdoors and of cattle. She later discovered that crofting was in her blood; her paternal grandmother had farmed into her eighties.
2005.101.1
Mini-disk recording of Janet Brown, Balephuil talking to Maggie Campbell in August 2005.
Seònaid Brown née MacArthur of Balephuil talks to Maggie Campbell in August 2005 about her schooling at Heylipol during World War II and afterwards at Cornaig, her school clothes, lunches, games, her classes and teachers, school discipline, evacuees and tinkers, Christmas parties, transport to school, ministers and childhood illnesses.
2005.93.1
Packed lunches and school dinners in the 1940s
Sound clip in English of Janet MacIntosh talking about packed lunches and school dinners in the 1940s.
Courtesy of Mrs Janet MacIntosh
Janet MacIntosh was recorded in August 2005 talking to Maggie Campbell of Kilmoluaig about her schooldays in Balemartine in the 1940s. She remembers how ‘wonderful’ hot school dinners were compared to packed lunches.
When she was a child, the diet on Tiree was plain and simple. White and brown flour and oatmeal came in hundredweight bags and were stored in the ‘girnel’, a wooden chest with a lid and internal partitions, that kept the mice out. Housewives baked every day.
More fish was eaten than meat; there were few vegetables other than potatoes and no fruit. Food from the shore was also eaten: soup made with whelks (winkles) and oatmeal, or with dulse, and milk puddings made with carrageen.
2005.80.1
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 347, 9/7/2005.
Local news and events including the completion of the Crossapol Environmental Improvement Scheme, letter from the Councillor Ian Gillies, Tiree Heritage Society`s Pilgrimage Walk, the Feis, and news from the RSPB and the school.
2005.68.1
Mini-disk recording of Hector and Archie MacKinnon of Cornaigmore talking to Maggie Campbell in June 2005.
Brothers Hector and Archie MacKinnon of Cornaigmore talk to Maggie Campbell in June 2005 about their primary school at Cornaig, how different Glasgow and Tiree were, and reminisce about the old school building and when it was renovated in 1934.
2005.69.1
Mini-disk recording of Mary Cameron of Balevullin talking to Maggie Campbell in June 2005.
Mary Cameron of Balevullin talks to Maggie Campbell in June 2005 about her primary schooling at Balemartine and secondary schooling at Cornaig, the games they played, and the clothes they wore walking to and from school.