Tiree Annual / Bliadhnail Thiriodh 2014. Annual magazine of history and nature articles, the year’s births, marriages & deaths, summary of achievements of Tiree Community Development Trust. Compiled by Simon Wellock on behalf of Tiree Community Business.
Black & white photograph of a procession of pupils and teachers being lead by pipers Callum MacLean (Salum) and Archie? (Dan) at Cornaig School sports day in the 1930s.
Black & white photograph of a group of 28 secondary school girls next to the finish line at Cornaigmore School sports day in the 1930s.
Black & white photograph of Mr MacIver leading an excercise class outside Cornaig School in the 1930s.
Black & white photograph of the Tiree team competing at the County Youth Sports competition in Oban around 1950. L-R: unidentified boy, Margaret Sinclair of Balephuil, John Galt, Dolina MacKinnon and John MacLeod.
Gold medal engraved with “Tiree Athletic Sports,1903, Best all round champion, Archibald MacLean” on one side, and “Presented by H M Diarmid Esq.” on the other side. Archibald MacLean lived at Whitehouse, Cornaigmore. His father was Donald MacLean and his mother Margaret Ann Farquharson. His siblings were Donald, Alexander, Thomas, Eliza, Margaret and Christina. Hugh (Mac)Diarmid was the Estate Factor at the time.
Black & white photograph of a crowd around a bi-plane on The Reef during Sports Day in 1927. It was the first plane to land on Tiree. On the left is Kenneth MacKenzie, Scarinish (b. 1890). He worked as Piermaster and lived with his wife Agnes in the ‘Bank House’ in Scarinish, which was built for him.
VHS video and DVD of two Tiree Wave Classic windsurfing competitions, in 1989 and 1991, including footage from Balevullin, Crossapol and Traigh Thorasadail.
VHS video and DVD of Tiree Sports Day and first flight to Tiree in the 1930s.
Black & white photograph of a football team from a plantation in Malaya run by Lachie MacKinnon, Hillcrest, in 1955. Lachie is seated centre-front with his twins Charles and Iain.
