Newspaper article `The Quern-Dust Calendar – The Remarkable Father Rigg`.
Three Gaelic elegies about George Rigg, parish priest of Daliburgh in South Uist from 1894 to 1897.
2002.4.11
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1997.19.1
Church magazine `Na Duilleagan Gaidhlig` No. 1, 1995, with photocopy.
Photograph of Kirkapol`s Women`s Guild outing to the Reading Room in 1930. In the front row, seventh from the right, is Rosie MacIntyre.
1997.18.2.1
Letter from donor and photocopied information re ministers James, Duncan and Dugald Macfarlane.
Extracts from `History of Baptists in Scotland`, 1926, and `Island Harvest` by Donald Meek re John, Duncan, James, Robert and their father William MacFarlane.
1998.4.6
Photocopied article about Rev. William John MacLeod
Minister with two flocks – his congregation and his sheep.
1998.296.1
Interior decoration in the 1920s
Sound clip in English of Mabel Kennedy talking about interior decoration in the 1920s.
Courtesy of Mrs Mabel MacArthur
Mabel Kennedy talks to Dr John Holliday in October 1998 about the interior decoration of the house at Main Road Farm in Balephuil where she lived until she went to work in service in Glasgow in 1926.
The floors of the house were made of concrete although, at that time, some must still have been beaten earth and clay. Earthen floors were considered warmer for children’s feet than concrete or flagstones and were kept clean by a sprinkling of shell sand every day except Sunday.
The walls inside were painted twice a year with whitewash made from seashells. The difficulty and expense of obtaining household goods on a remote Hebridean island encouraged the resourcefulness of the local people who would make do with the materials to hand.
1997.7.1.1
Letter dated 7/2/1925 from Rev. Alex. MacKinnon, St.Columba Parish Church, Glasgow, plus photocopy.
Letter of condolence from the Rev. MacKinnon to Hugh, the son of his neighbour, on the death of his mother.
1997.6.1.1
Newspaper article about Rev. Hector Cameron Moy, with photocopy
Obituary for Rev. Hector Cameron Moy, native of Tiree.
1998.1.5
Photocopy of Church of Scotland leaflet
Instructions for Sunday School Scholars` and Bible Class Examinations by the Church of Scotland Committee on Religious Instruction of Youth
1997.3.1.1
Photocopy of 2 newspaper obituaries about Dr Dugald MacFarlane
Obituaries in the Glasgow Herald, 9/10/1956, and an unknown publication, regarding the Very Rev. Dr D. MacFarlane, one time Baptist minister in Tiree.