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2002.99.1

Audio cassette recording of Donald MacDonald of Heanish and Australia interviewed by Maggie Campbell in Scarinish on 19/6/2002.

Donald MacDonald of Heanish and Australia talks to Maggie Campbell in June 2002 about leaving Tiree at the age of 16 to join the Merchant Navy, his early memories of Tiree looking for birds’ eggs, fishing and collecting whelks; Donald and his sisters Janet and Isabel talk about the RAF on Tiree, teachers at Scarinish School, the shops, changes in farming and the village of Heanish over the years.

2002.56.12

Black and white photograph of Kate Cameron, July 1921.

L-R: Kate Cameron, 1896-1928, with an unknown woman from the Faith Mission in Tiree in 1921. Kate gained an MA at Glasgow University, trained as a teacher and taught at Duisky School in Ardgour when she dies of peritonitis resulting from a ruptured appendix.

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2002.13.13

Obituary for Gabriel de Fontenay (1927-2001) from the Oban Times, December 2001. Gabriel taught French at Tiree High School from 1976 until his retirement in 1989, at which point he moved to Oban.

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1998.4.4.1

Photocopies of newspaper advert for Tiree Association Gathering and photograph of its President, 1963

Advert for the Annual Gathering of the Tiree Association in Govan Town Hall on 15/11/1963, and photograph of Allan C. MacDougall, headmaster of Cornaig School and president of the 63rd annual gathering of the Tiree Association.

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