"... the `Welcome Home to the Soldier's Dance' at the Village School after the War was over. I was a young married woman, my husband and I strangers to Coll, he from Mull, myself from Tiree, come to work on the Estate. Davy Fotheringham played the squeeze box and his sister Gracie, Gordon's mother, played the piano. That was the band. I'll never forget how kind and welcoming Katie and Ina Ballyhaugh were to me that night. I had made friends."

Katina MacDonald.

"... the excitement of the Summer Sunday School Picnic. Once a year it was our big chance to go to the Castle Park for games and lots of buns. People didn't travel about the island so much then, only for work or extra special occasions. All the villagers would travel in carts with woolbags stuffed with straw to sit on. We sang all the way there and all the way back. Those were the days when the New Castle was in full swing."

Katie Sproat.