DVD of BBC Alba TV programme Cairdeas Cogaidh featuring Lachie MacKinnon, Parkhouse, Balephetrish, being interviewed by Donald Meek, Caoles, in Lachie’s house on 13th February 2014. In Gaelic without subtitles.
2016.10.1
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Township: balephetrish
2015.64.1
Printed memoir of a childhood spent on Tiree during WWII by Barry Kerr, 2015. Barry’s father, George (Jock) Kerr, was posted on the island as an RAF Signals and Telegraph Officer. Barry recalls the ‘black house’ he lived in at Balephetrish, the coal puffers, Cornaig school and prisoners of war.
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2015.27.1
Black & white photograph of a football team from a plantation in Malaya run by Lachie MacKinnon, Hillcrest, in 1955. Lachie is seated centre-front with his twins Charles and Iain.
2015.22.2
Shoebox of about 80 shards of pottery and bone, excavated by FG Hay from the small dun at the east end of Balephetrish Bay (probably An Dùn), in 1966. One pottery piece is patterned and another may be tusk.
2014.117.1
Collection of 18 postcards of photographs of Tiree, 1920-1960
Collection of 18 original postcards showing photographed scenes from Tiree, some of which are used and stamped. Most are duplicates of existing archive items. Six scanned and accessioned separately (V121-V126).
2014.115.4
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 436, 21/02/2009
Local news: plans for windfarm off Tiree; WWII soldier remembers building a jetty at Balephetrish Bay; Mainly Music; Road Equivalent Tariff (RET) discussions; Gordon Scott`s Everest trek; Tiree Trust discuss offshore windfarm proposals; SWRI meeting; Cobbled Cow café under new management; RSPB information; livestock sale results; Edinburgh moonwalk.
2014.107.4
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 419, 21/6/08
Local news: Dance Olympics at Tiree High School; butterflies; interview with Tony McEwen, Crossapol; progress of water supply upgrade; football training tour; SWRI Federation Show; social work staff awarded; bumblebees; Iain MacKinnon, Hillcrest, appointed as TRD Community Conservation Officer; Oban to islands air service; retiral of Morag MacKenzie from `Meals on Wheels`; Discover Tiree`s visitor information touch screens; Tiree Community Trust news: Crossapol enterprise zone, wave classic; harbour study, access, design guide, affordable housing, youth work, directors, staff, wind turbine (Tilley).
2014.67.7
Map of Balephetrish showing proposed crofts, 1922
Map of Balephetrish drawn up in 1922 to show areas to be subdivided into crofts and common grazings as part of the Land Settlement Schemes, and a field on the shore at Crossapol Farm “for market stance”.
© National Archives of Scotland
2013.148.11
Photograph of the Hillcrest MacKinnons of Balephetrish ca 1900
Sepia photograph of the MacKinnon family (mother, father and five young children) of Hillcrest, Balephetrish, “before Mary was born”. See 2011.78.2 for family history.
2013.148.15
Photograph of brothers John and Charlie MacKinnon, Hillcrest, and a friend around 1900
Sepia portrait photograph of John MacKinnon and Charlie MacKinnon, Hillcrest, Balephetrish, and a friend around 1900. See 2011.78.2 for family history.
