Tag Archives: schools

2002.167.6

Black and white photograph of Ruaig School in the mid-1920s.

Ruaig School in the mid-1920s. The teachers are Robert MacLeod (Campbeltown) and Christina MacKinnon (Tobermory), who had family from Scarinish. They married in 1930 in Glasgow and had one child, Peter, born in the Ruaig School House in 1933.

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2002.163.4

Newspaper photograph of Cornaigmore Secondary School choir.

Photograph of Cornaigmore Secondary School choir which won the unison singing at the National Mod in Ayr. L-R: (back) Monica Davies; May Margaret MacDonald; Margaret Ann Campbell; Ailidh Campbell; unknown; Christina Brown; Eileen Lyons; Archie MacFadyen; Alasdair Sinclair; unknown; Norman MacArthur; Bunty Thomson; (front) Eoghann Archie MacArthur; unknown; Margaret MacLean; unknown; Lena MacNeill.

2002.163.6

Newspaper article about vist to Barra by Cornaigmore Junior Secondary School in 1974.

Group of pupils from Cornaigmore Junior Secondary School photographed at Castlebay pier during a visit to Barra in 1974 for three sporting fixtures: netball, football and hockey. L-R: unknown; Gordon Connell, teacher; Jane or Isabel MacLachlan *; Donna Campbell, Middleton *; Catherine MacPherson, teacher; Ann Cameron, Balevullin; May Margaret MacDonald, Balephuil; Margaret Ann Campbell, Cornaigbeg; Christine MacClounnan, Balephuil; Christina Brown, Crossapol; Jill Robertson, Ruaig; Jane Weatherston, Scarinish; Mairi MacInnes, Ruaig; June Clarke, Barrapol *; Archie MacKinnon, Kirkapol; Drew Black, Scarinish/Gott; Iain MacKinnon, Barrapol; Archie MacFadyen, Balemartine; Torquil Donald, Vaul; Duncan MacPhee, Scarinish; Lachie Campbell, Cornaigbeg; Iain MacDonald, Cornaigbeg (missionary); David Monaghan, Kilkenneth *. Eddie Gillespie, Jacqueline MacFadyen, Brian, MacFadyen and Fiona Green nee Stewart were also on the trip but not photographed. Tommy Monaghan* should have gone but had put a grape through his foot and was unable to play football.

2002.158.1

Audio cassette recording of Mary Davies and her sister Jessie Ann Goddard interviewed by Maggie Campbell in Kilmoluaig on 6/9/2002.

Sisters Mary Davies and Jessie Ann Goddard talk to Maggie Campbell in September 2002 about their childhood on Tiree during World War II, their schooldays, Crossapol and its people, their diet during the war, the ‘medicine’ they took as children to ward off colds and cleanse the blood, the games they played, their clothing and dances on Tiree.