Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 418, 7/6/08
Local news: Tiree 10K; An Iodhlann re-opens; interview with Elaine Hutchinson; air link between Oban and islands; Helen Thompson professional kite-surfer; `Tiree Experience` day tour; the Tiree Association; architecture awards; MacLeans of Tiree and New Zealand; kite-building competition (goose scarers); `Pipathon`; closure of Craft Shop, Kenovay.
Book `The Lord of the Isles Voyage`, 1993
Softback book about the building of a 16th century sailing galley made by the MacDonald`s of Skye and author Wallace Clark, and its voyage through the sea kingdom in 1991 and 1992. Given to Dr John Holliday by Carol Kirkpatrick.
Photograph of the Eventide Home bus around 1990
Colour photograph of the Eventide Home bus with Alice MacDougall being wheeled onto the bus, Neil MacKinnon, and Catriona MacCallum, Kenovay. (original stored in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1)
Annotated OS map of Coll and Tiree, 1947-1951
1947 Ordnance Survey map of Coll and Tiree used by David Renfrew (Glasgow) during a visit to Tiree with his girlfriend and her parents in 1951. The map is annoted with straight lines and crosses for “ship 1”, “ship 2” and “ship 3” across the sea between Tiree, Coll and the Treshnish Isles, the purpose of which are unknown.
Photograph of livestock awaiting the ferry in 1983.
Colour photograph of sheep and cattle in pens waiting to be loaded onto the ferry in 1983, which is tied up to Gott Bay pier in the background. (original stored on CD in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1)
Notes regarding audio recordings made on Tiree in 1972 and 1974
Two folders of handwritten notes made by Eric Cregeen while he was recording Tiree people speaking onto cassette tape during 1972 and 1974, plus a map of Balephuil, Balinoe and Barrapol annotated with the names of people living in each house. People recorded in notes: Donald Sinclair, Hector Kennedy – Balephuil, John Brown – Balephuil, John MacLean – Kilmoluaig, John MacLean – Cornaigbeg. Subjects covered include ancestry, Gaelic prose and songs, people living nearby, second sight, place names, shebeens, building construction, poverty, weather, schools, food, shops, water supplies, emigrants, rents, skeleton, confrontations, ferries and ships, literacy, crofts, Pairc na Coille, wars, Land Leagues, churches, illnesses.
Ship`s gimballed binnacle compass ca 1930s
Gimballed binnacle compass mounted on a wooden board. It would originally have been mounted in the ship`s wheelhouse. Made by Dobbie McInnes 1902-1937, but probably used in the 1930s. Unknown provenance (found in a cupboard in Tiree High School in 2014).
Photograph of “wee Charlie” ca 1930
Black & white photograph of “wee Charlie” in his perambulator around 1930. Also on the reverse of the photo: “George took it in the back court”. From a collection of photographs from the house of Ellen Kennedy (nee Eilidh MacNeil), Balevullin.
Photograph of the Tobermory ferry terminal on Mull ca 1950
Black and white photograph of passengers and a Cooperative van outside MacBrayne`s ferry building at Tobermory on Mull. From a collection of photographs from the house of Ellen Kennedy (nee Eilidh MacNeil), Balevullin.
Lamp from a Post Office cart, ca 1900
Brass paraffin lamp used on the Post Office cart around 1900. Square in shape with covered vent at top. Two clear glass panes, one small circular red pane, and one mirrored side. Would have slotted into a bracket on the cart.
