Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 4, Autumn 1984.
Local news including the proposed changes to the ferry service, the privatisation of Tiree airport, Tiree High School sale of work, a Gaelic poem by Neil Brownlie, the Hebridean Trust and the Skerryvore Museum, the departure of headmaster Colin O`Brien and news from the vet and WRI.
Laser print of a black and white photograph of Flora and Jessie MacNab in the 1920s.
`Resting by the way`. L-R: Flora MacNab, school teacher in Glasgow, and her sister Jessie who was a district nurse in Tiree. (From Myra Lamont`s photograph album of the 1920s.)
Black and white photograph of the Tiree Pipe Band.
The Tiree Pipe Band at the Tiree Association Sports on 22nd July 1967. L-R: (back row) Gordon Connell, James Baxter, ? Campbell, Hugh MacLean, Stewart Langley, Neil MacPhail, Lachlan MacFadyen, (front row) vet Robert Beck, Colin Brown, Hugh MacEachern, Ann Sinclair, Alasdair Sinclair, Hector J. C. Campbell.
Newspaper cutting dated 1986 about Mr Roderick Nicolson.
Article about 95th birthday celebrations for Mr Roderick Nicolson, former headmaster of one of Tiree`s primary schools 1913-1916.
Colour photograph of Michael Holliday, Brian Milne and Gordon Scott in March 2003.
Handing out anti-Iraq war leaflets at the protest bonfire in Crossapol in March 2003. L-R: Michael Holliday, Baugh; Art teacher Brian Milne, Scarinish; Social Worker Gordon Scott, Cornaigmore.
Audio cassette recording of Bunty Kennedy interviewed by Maggie Campbell in Coll on 8/7/2003.
Maggie Campbell talks to Bunty Kennedy of Coll in July 2003 about her early childhood and schooldays on Tiree in the 1940s, her life on Coll from the 1950s to the present day, the water and electricity supply, the postal services, fishing, past and present New Years on Coll. She sings a verse of a song by Iain MacDonald and her son, Cailean, plays a few tunes on the accordion. Bunty Ceannaideach o Colla a’ bruidhinn ri Mairead Caimbeul anns an t-Iuchair 2003 mu dheidhinn làithean sgoile ann a Tiriodh anns na ceathradan, fuireachd ann a Colla anns na coigeadan, nuair a thàinig dealan agus uisge gu Colla, am post, iasgach agus mar a bha am Bliadhna Ur air a thoirt a steach fo chionn fhada taca ris mar a tha e air a’ dhèanamh air an latha an diugh. Tha Bunty a seinn rann fo òrain Iain MacDhòmhnaill agus tha Cailean, a mac aice, a cluich am bogsa ciùil.
Series of photocopied letters dated 17th May 1982 to 6th October 1982 between Christina MacGregor Whyte and Mr Colin O`Brien, the headmaster of Tiree High School, regarding a large bequest from the estate of Duncan MacGregor Whyte for school equipment. Duncan MacGregor Whyte was a renowned artist who built ‘The Studio’ at Balephuil, and who painted many portrait’s of Tiree people. Christina (Ena) MacGregor Whyte was his son’s wife.
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Photocopied account of the annual salaries and allowances to teachers on the Argyll estates of Mull and Tiree.
Account of the annual salaries and allowances to teachers on the Argyll estates of Mull and Tiree (no date), listing teachers, schools and salaries. (Bundle 1539)
Schools in Tyree 1863
Transcription of John Ramsay’s report on Tiree schools in 1863.
Courtesy of His Grace the Duke of Argyll
In 1863, John Ramsay, MP for Falkirk Burghs, reported on the state of Tiree schools to the Royal Commission on Education in Scotland chaired by the 8th Duke of Argyll. Ramsay assessed the condition of the buildings, the quality of the teaching, the progress of the scholars and their attendance at school.
At the time of the report, there were eight schools on Tiree, two supported by the Church of Scotland, four by the Free Church Ladies Society and one each by the General Assembly and the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge. Only three made a good impression.
The recommendations of the Argyll Commission were put into effect by the Education Act of 1872. Primary education was made compulsory for children aged five to thirteen and the control of schools placed in the hands of popularly elected school boards.
John Ramsay’s letter about Tiree schools
Transcription of John Ramsay’s letter to the 8th Duke of Argyll about Tiree schools in 1863.
Courtesy of His Grace the Duke of Argyll
In 1863, John Ramsay, MP for Falkirk Burghs, reported on the state of Tiree schools to the Royal Commission on Education in Scotland chaired by the 8th Duke of Argyll. At the time of the report, there were eight schools on Tiree, of which only three made a good impression.
In this private letter to the Duke, Ramsay made several suggestions on how to improve the quality of the teaching on the island by removing unsatisfactory teachers, offering inducements for better pupil attendance and school inspections by the factor, Lachlan MacQuarie.
Rather than appealing to the Duke’s altruism, Ramsay stressed ‘the pecuniary value of education to the proprietor of a Highland estate’.
