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1999.196.3

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Newsletter `Fios agus Fathunn`, No. 3, 1980.

Local news including the proposed surcharge for diesel-generated power, visit by the Welfare Rights team, Housing Action Areas, the cost of funerals, the delay in the installation of new telephones lines, the quality of the mains water, the bus shelter at Balemartine, conveyance to school for Primary pupils, the Community Council election, a list of books about Tiree, a Gaelic song by Neil Brownlie, church, and school news, Golf Club and Tiree Football team news, the proposed new public hall and the WRI summer ceilidh.

1997.265.6

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Newsletter `Fios agus Fathunn`, No. 6, 1981.

Local news including Strathclyde Regional Structural Plan, a Gaelic song by George Campbell of Cornaigbeg, the mains water supply, the coastguard, the Community Enterprise Porgramme, thatched houses, the churches, birdwatching and a marine survey of Tiree and Coll.

1997.265.9

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Newsletter `Fios agus Fathunn`, No. 9, 1982.

Local news including complaints about the muddy state of the mains water, news from the Boys Brigade , Vaul Golf Club, Cornaig School and the churches, spoke Gaelic on Tiree and house insulation.

1997.265.10

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Newsletter `Fios agus Fathunn`, No. 10, 1982 (3 copies).

Local news including the proposed closure of the knitwear factory, a letter from the Director of Water about the muddy mains water, the continuing off-loading of mail and newspapers from Loganair flights, news from the church, the school, Vaul Golf Club, the Regatta Club and the Boys Brigade, a letter from the vet about vaccination of of calves, the weather and bird-watching.

1997.265.15

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Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 1, Winter 1983.

Local news including the views of the newly-elected Community Council, the condition of the mains supply, the off-loading of mail and newspaper from Loganair flights, recipes, a letter from the vet about mineral deficiencies in cattle, improvements to the public hall, and news from the churches, schools, the sailing club, Boys Brigade, Womens Guild, WRI and Vaul Golf Club.

1997.265.17

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Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 3, Summer 1984 (2 copies).

Local news including the condition of the mains water, the repair of the Baugh memorial, the Local Plan for Mull, Coll and Tiree which proposes replacing the ferry link with Oban with one to Tobermory, the opening of the Skerryvore Museum at the Signalling Tower in Hynish, crofting statistics, news from the Boys Brigade, Vaul Golf Club, WRI, the scouts, the school and the churches.

1997.265.19

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Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 5, Winter 1984.

Local news including ferry timetables, the mains water, hospital beds at Taigh a` Ruadh, grazing on the Reef, upgrading the public hall, recipes, crofting, RAF Tiree, and news from the churches and the school.

1997.265.21

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Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, Summer 1985.

Local news including the arrival of Dr Boulind and family, the improvement in the mains supply, car parking in Scarinish, a Gaelic poem by Neil Brownlie, Strathclyde concessionary fares scheme, RAF Tiree, news from the Guides, WRI, the churches, golf club, coastguard and cub scouts.

2003.121.1

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Audio cassette recording of Bunty Kennedy interviewed by Maggie Campbell in Coll on 8/7/2003.

Maggie Campbell talks to Bunty Kennedy of Coll in July 2003 about her early childhood and schooldays on Tiree in the 1940s, her life on Coll from the 1950s to the present day, the water and electricity supply, the postal services, fishing, past and present New Years on Coll. She sings a verse of a song by Iain MacDonald and her son, Cailean, plays a few tunes on the accordion. Bunty Ceannaideach o Colla a’ bruidhinn ri Mairead Caimbeul anns an t-Iuchair 2003 mu dheidhinn làithean sgoile ann a Tiriodh anns na ceathradan, fuireachd ann a Colla anns na coigeadan, nuair a thàinig dealan agus uisge gu Colla, am post, iasgach agus mar a bha am Bliadhna Ur air a thoirt a steach fo chionn fhada taca ris mar a tha e air a’ dhèanamh air an latha an diugh. Tha Bunty a seinn rann fo òrain Iain MacDhòmhnaill agus tha Cailean, a mac aice, a cluich am bogsa ciùil.

1998.182.34

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Photocopied page of four newspaper cuttings from the Oban Times, 1968.

(1) Article about Major Iain MacLennan, chairman of the Council of Social Services and of the local District Council, who reports that the councils want to attract light industry to Tiree, reduce freight costs and improve and extend the public water supply, (2) formation of a Tiree Youth Club, (3) new medical unit for Dr Calvert, (4) letters about Anne Sinclair’s piping success and Danina Langley’s  MOD success.

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