Colour photograph of a painting titled `The Dark Sea` by Duncan MacGregor Whyte.
Painting titled `The Dark Sea` by Duncan MacGregor Whyte.
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Dates: 1940s
1999.117.36
Black and white photograph of artist Duncan MacGregor Whyte.
Duncan MacGregor Whyte (1864-1953), artist, who built a studio at Ceann na Creige in Balephuill. He was the son of Rev. Charles Whyte, Congregational minister in Oban, and Eliza Farquharson, the daughter of Rev. Archibald Farquharson, Congregational minister in Tiree 1832-1878. He married Mary Barnard, another artist, who came originally from Holts in Wiltshire.
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Photocopied information about the Met Office Telegraphic Reporting Station on Tiree.
History of the Met station at Cornaigmore from 1924 to 1956
2003.10.15
Photocopied letter to the Director of Air Ministry Met Office dated 24/8/1942 from the Met Office at RAF Tiree.
Letter to the Director of Air Ministry Met Office dated 24/8/1942 from the Met Office at RAF Tiree about the observer at Cornaigmore Met Station.
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Photocopied letter dated 9/9/1942 to John MacPhail, Assistant Observer at the Cornaigmore Met Station.
Letter dated 9/9/1942 to John MacPhail, Assistant Observer at the Cornaigmore Met Station advising him of the opening of a Met Office at the RAF station and the closure of the Cornaigmore station.
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Scanned photograph of the instrument enclosure of the Met Station at Tiree Airport in 1945.
Looking north-west at the instrument enclosure of the Met Station at Tiree Airport in 1945.
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Scanned photograph of the instrument enclosure of the Met Station at Tiree Airport in 1945.
Looking south-south-west at the instrument enclosure of the Met Station at Tiree Aerodrome in 1945.
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Scanned aerial photograph of the Reef looking east taken in 1942.
Aerial photograph of the Reef looking east in 1942.
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Scanned aerial photograph of the Reef looking east taken in 1942.
Aerial photograph of the Reef in 1942 looking north-east.
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Scanned aerial photograph of the Reef looking east taken in 1942.
Aerial photograph of the Reef in 1942 looking south-west, showing a number of the dispersed sites around Crossapol.