The sub-post office at Cornaigmore was opened in 1896. The GPO brought in a telegraph line in the 1920s and installed a telephone in the nearby school when the Met Office opened a weather station there.
After the death of the postmaster in the mid-1950s, the office moved to Balevullin for some twenty-five years. It was re-opened on the original site in Cornaig in 1972 along with a general store and a popular restaurant called the Cèilidh Café. Two years later, they were all destroyed by fire.
In 1979 the post office was re-opened in Kilmoluaig. The Cornaig buildings were renovated in the 1980s as a single dwelling which for a few years also housed the Gaelic Playgroup. It was bought by the local council in the 1990s and converted into two council houses.
Black and white postcard of Cornaigmore Post Office.
Cornaigmore Post Office, probably between the World Wars.
Photocopied newspaper cutting about local news on Tiree in 1912.
Local news about harvesting, teachers` examinations, the Rev. D. MacPherson, the death by drowning of Archibald MacDonald aged 25 of Balemartine and Tiree School Board.
Colour photograph of Tiree High School prize-giving ceremony in 1987.
Tiree High School prize-giving ceremony in 1987 in the old gym. L-R: (accordion players) Duncan MacArthur, Sandaig; Douglas MacDonald, Balemartine, Peter MacIntosh, Caoles; (at back) teachers Margaret MacIntyre, Gott and Gordon Connell, Crossapol.
Colour photograph of Tiree High School staff in 1972-3.
Tiree High School staff in 1972-3. L-R: (standing) Modern Studies and History teacher Gordon Connell, Crossapol; Headteacher (1970-79) Roy MacPherson; Technical and Woodwork teacher Bill Rowan; Primary teacher Annie MacKinnon, Cornaigmore; Gaelic teacher Flora MacPhail, Ruaig; School secretary ,Anne Langley ,Kirkapol; Science teacher John Wilson, Cornaigmore; Primary teacher Bunty Thomson, Balephetrish; Primary teacher Cath MacPherson.
Black and white photograph of Tiree High School hockey team in 1970-1.
Tiree High School hockey team in 1970-1. L-R: (back) Home Economics teacher Helen Cameron, Balephuil; Janet MacArthur, Middleton; Marion MacLean, Cornaigmore; Kathleen MacLean, Crossapol; Helen MacDonald, Mannal; Lorelei MacLennan, Heylipol (factor`s daughter); unknown; Rosemary Nugent, Balephuil; Sheena Wilson, Moss; English teacher Donald Bruce, Crossapol; (front) Christine Maxwell, Balinoe; Christine Burns, Balinoe; Morven MacLean, Crossapol.
Colour photograph of `It`s a Knockout` at Tiree High School in 1986-7.
`It`s a Knockout` at Tiree High School in 1986-7. L-R: Heather MacNeill, Scarinish; Sheena MacAllister, Heanish; Andy Hayes, Crossapol; Fiona MacIver, Kilmoluaig; teacher Ronnie MacGowan, Heylipol (in the water); Mairi MacArthur, Kilkenneth; Nathan Milne, Scarinish; Donald Cameron, Scarinish; unknown (standing); Fiona Campbell, Crossapol.
