Audio cassette recording of Janet MacIntosh of Scarinish talking to Maggie Campbell on 21/5/2004.
Janet MacIntosh of Urvaig talks to Maggie Campbell in May 2004 about her schooldays in Balemartine, her childhood and wartime memories, Sunday customs, her travels round Scotland as a pilgrim, women’s clothing and work, baptisms in Tiree, the 19th century Baptist revival on the Ross of Mull, the Community Council, differences between the east and west of Tiree, self education, second sight and ghost stories, Tiree Bards, the hardness of life in the past with poverty, disease and the death of children; Janet finishes by singing a hymn composed by Neil MacDonald of Kilmoluaig
Local news and events including the American volunteers re-roofing the Baptist manse, the death by drowning of Anthony Pearce from Caoles, letter from Councillor Ian Gillies, the clean-up of Gott Bay and news from the Tiree Seedcorn Fund, the school, the youth club, the feis and Tiree Community Business.
Black and white photgraph of the Presbytery of Lorne and Mull at Heylipol Church in 1984.
The Presbytery of Lorne and Mull at Heylipol Church in the summer of 1984 at the ordination and induction of Rev. George Donaldson (centre with glasses) to the Parish of Tiree and Coll.
View of Scarinish from outside the harbour. The building in the middle was originally a church, then used intermittently as a prison and latterly as a store by the owners of the Mary Stewart. It was pulled down to make roads during World War II. The Scarinish Hotel is on the extreme right.
Known locally as ‘Eaglais na Mòintich’ (Moss Church), the church was built in 1902, replacing a former church building erected on the site in the 19th century. The name Heylipol is derived from the Norse for Holy Town suggesting early Christian settlement in the area.
Designed by William MacKenzie, the church is of cruciform Gothic design with a bell tower over the entrance porch. Externally it is faced with dressed granite from a local quarry. The pews can accommodate 365 worshippers.
The pulpit has wooden panels carved by boys from a woodwork class organised by Lady Victoria Campbell, daughter of the 8th Duke of Argyll, a benefactress to the people of Tiree in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Paperback book `Highlanders – A history of the Gaels` by John MacLeod.
The story of the Gaels from Mesolithic man, through the Celts, the Vikings and the Lord of the Isles to the Stuart monarchy, the events following Culloden and the forced emigration, the Evangelical Movement and the Crofters` War, and the current situation.
