Dates: 1940s

1998.323.5

Hardback book `The Climate of Treason` by Andrew Boyle.

Story of spies Philby, Burgess and MacLean. MacLean`s parents came from Tiree.

1998.262.1

Post Office Telephones Exchange Diary 25/9/1948 to 16/2/1974, which hung in the Tiree cable hut at Caoles. The cable hut was where the submarine cable from Mull connected to the Tiree exchange (via Coll).

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One of the first and longest serving telephone engineers was Donald Quintin Campbell, whose signature appears next to most entries in the diary during 1948-1968.

 

1998.209.2

Admission Register for Scarinish Public School 1/8/1889 to 26/2/1962.

Admission Register for Scarinish Public School 1/8/1889 to 26/2/1962.

 

 

This, and all other school admission registers that we held, has now been returned to Argyll & Bute Council archives

1998.189.1

Book extract `The Flora of the Isle of Coll, Tiree and Gunna` by J. W. Heslop Harrison, Helena Heslop Harrison, W. A. Clark and R. B. Cooke.

List of the flora of Tiree, Coll and Gunna found during field trips by botanists from the University of Durham during 1937-1940.