Tag Archives: tourism

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2014.115.10

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Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 442, 15/05/2009

Local news: article about whether Tiree’s health service is prepared for an outbreak of Swine Flu; Gordon Scott’s ‘Himalayan Odyssey’; An Iodhlann’s ‘Sheaves from the Stackyard’; cruise ship visit to Tiree; Alec MacLean’s poem ‘Na Muileann Gaoithe‘; Tiree 10K; reporter’s notes about Ian Sharp’s continuing illness and a light aircraft belonging to a Belgian couple who have bought a house on the island; SWRI news; fundraising for the Pre-5 school garden; advert for an Agri-plastic recycling service; A&B councillor’s report on the condition of Argyll’s roads; John Bowler’s RSPB news; AGM of Tiree Community Development Trust.

2019.28.1

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Black and white photograph of two visiting brothers, Richard and Paul Noble, standing outside a black-roofed house in 1969, and their story about their efforts to revisit the house in 2018, believing it to have belonged to Mrs Mary Flora Chicken, in whose house they stayed.

Click here to view  ‘The Search for Mrs Chicken’s House’

 

2018.78.1

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The Scots Magazine, June 1965, with an article about Tiree and its people ‘Island of Prosperous Crofters’ by Campbell K Finlay. Includes photographs of Scarinish Harbour: A D Brown, Tobermory (merchant to Tiree); Margaret Brown, Vaul; Malcolm M MacLean, Salum; A H MacPhail, Clachan; A G H Bruton, Lodge Hotel; Travee; coastal cliffs; croft house, Scarinish; Parkhouse, Balephetrish; L J MacFadyen, Kenovay;  J L MacInnes, Salum; W MacPhee, gamekeeper; Balephetrish road. Also mentioned in text: Walter Hume, the Reef & An Fhaodhail, primary schools, boarded-out children, island house, sheep, bulb-growing, cottars, income, crofters’ war, snipe shooting, tourism, fishing.

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2015.2.1

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Audio recording about tourism on Tiree

Audio recording of Dr John Holliday interviewing Duncan Grant, Ruaig, Iain MacKinnon, Hillcrest, and Gordon Scott, Cornaigmore, about tourism on Tiree. Includes each introducing themselves and giving an account of their Tiree links. Recorded at An Iodhlann on 20/1/2015.

2014.120.2

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Group of people outside Dunmore, Vaul, 1960s

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Black and white photograph of 14 adults and children standing for a group shot outside the house at Dunmore, Vaul, during a visit in the 1960s. The photo includes visitors staying at Dunmore as well as the Knapman family. There are also some Dunmore residents including Charlie MacDonald

2014.120.7

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Photograph of a group of people at Dunmore, Vaul, around 1950

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Copy of a colour transparency of 18 adults and children outside Rum View around 1939.

Includes visitors who stayed in Rum View that year plus Catriona MacInnon of Rum View. Billy and Jean Taylor are in the picture who
were the parents of Meena Knapman, (nee Taylor) wo possibly took
the photograph.

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