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 4th year at Tiree High School in 1974-5.
Secondary 4 at Tiree High School in 1974-5. L-R: (back row) Donald MacKinnon, Kenovay; Torquil Donald, Vaul; Archie John MacLean, Scarinish; Tommy Monaghan, Kilkenneth; Archie MacFadyen, Balemartine; Robert Leppard, Ruaig; teacher Gordon Connell, Crossapol; (front row) Eilidh Campbell, Balemartine; Christine MacClounnan, Balephuil; June Clark, Barrapol; Margaret Ann Campbell, Cornaigbeg; Jacqueline MacFadyen, Scarinish; Mairi MacInnes, Ruaig; Jane Weatherston, Scarinish, Christina Brown, Crossapol
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: (back) secretary Anne Langley, Kirkapol; Primary headteacher Dolly Cameron, Sandaig; (front) Alasdair Brievogel, Kilmoluaig; Allan MacCallum, Balevullin; Mairi Brown, Balevullin; Lindsay Whyte, Crossapol; Colin MacKinnon, Balevullin; William Angus MacLean, Balinoe; Duncan MacArthur, Sandaig.
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.
