Mini-disk SA1958/9.
An unknown person tells a story about a minister, a charm to cure a cow, another to protect horses and funeral customs in Skye; Mrs Duncan Hunter talks about funeral customs; Niall MacLeod of Kilmoluaig sings a song by tailor William MacPhail; teacher Margaret MacArthur of Caoles sings a song she heard from her father, Captain Donald MacArthur and talks about children’s use of Gaelic; Hugh MacLean of Scarinish sings five Gaelic songs.
Poster featuring Gaelic teacher Donald MacLeod.
Colour poster advertising a caeer teaching Gaelic and featuring Donald MacLeod, Gaelic teacher at Tiree High School 2002-4.
Newspaper cutting about Neil MacDougall, son of Rev Allan MacDougall.
Article about Neil MacDougall, son of Rev. Allan MacDougall, who was appointed headmaster of Ruaig school in 1909.
Audio cassette recording of Annie Kennedy talking to Dr John Holliday in September 1998.
Annie Kennedy of Scarinish talks to Dr John Holliday in September 1998 about Scarinish school, her teachers and school meals, Cornaig school, the MacArthurs’ shop in Scarinish, making oatcakes and baking, the history of Scarinish Post Office, the store at the harbour and butchering on Tiree, the shoemaker in Scarinish, the Manse and ministers, Donald MacDougald’s cèilidh house, the Scarinish Hotel and farm, temperance, Baugh guest house, the Munns’ shop, Scarinish golf course, the changes World War II brought to Tiree, the dance hall at the pier, Lady Victoria Campbell, large families, poverty and neighbourliness, gamekeepers Peter Anderson and Jock Graham, and the telephone exchange.
Colour photograph of Rev. Bob Higham and teacher Margaret MacKay in 2001.
Rev. Bob Higham and Gaelic teacher Margaret MacKay outside Heylipol Church after the Feis Service in July 2001.
Photocopied handwritten information about individual Tiree people in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Biographical notes about individual Tiree people: John MacLean (Am Bard MacGhilleathain); merchant John Campbell of Scarinish (d. 1817); Colin MacNiven, Greenhill (18th century); Dugald MacEachern, schoolmaster (b. 1789); Rev John MacLean of Cornaig (b. 1841); Donald MacKechnie of Kenovay, joiner and postmaster (b. 1846); Captain Angus Lamont of Cornaig (b. 1844); tailor John MacPhail of Cornaigmore (b. 1846); John MacLucas, Balephuil (d. 1875).
Colour photograph of Willie Bunting, Donald MacKinnon, Elaine MacArthur and Lorna MacDonald at a Tiree regatta in the 1980s.
L-R: Willie Bunting of Crossapol at the trophy table, Donald MacKinnon of Sandaig, teachers Elaine MacArthur of Balinoe and Lorna MacDonald of Vaul at a Tiree regatta in the 1980s.
Video recording of the school Nativity Plays in 2000.
Two nativity plays, one in English and one in Gaelic, performed by the Primary School in 2000
Video recording of an unknown TV programme about local council services.
Programme about local council services featuring Mabel MacArthur of Sandaig, Gaelic teacher Margaret MacKay, Lachie MacArthur of Mannal, deputy headmaster Donnie Campbell of Kilmoluaig, Alasdair MacArthur of Balemartine, Murdina MacLean of Kilmoluaig, Allan MacFadyen, Maggie Campbell of Kilmoluaig and Hector MacPhail of Ruaig.
Black and white photograph of Tiree High School hockey team in the early 1970s.
Tiree High School hockey team, early 1970s, with Headmaster Roy MacPherson and Home Economics teacher Helen Cameron. L-R: Christine Burns, Balinoe; Lorelei MacLellan, daughter of factor Major MacLellan; Ann Sinclair, Greenhill; Kathleen MacLean, Crossapol; Marian MacLean, Cornaigbeg; Helen MacDonald, Mannal; Morvern MacLean, Crossapol; Margaret Nugent, Balephuil; Rosemary Nugent, Balephuil; Janet MacArthur, Middleton; Sheena Wilson.
