Dates: 1980s

1997.37.2

Discussion document re radioactive waste, 1980-1990

Discussion document re the development of a repository for the disposal of low and intermediate-level radioactive waste produced by United Kingdom Nirex Ltd.

1997.37.4

Newspaper cutting about the organisation Scotland Against Nuclear Dumping, 1988

Photocopy of newspaper cutting from Oban Times, 14/4/1988, re the SAND organisation (Scotland Against Nuclear Dumping).

1997.39.8

Newspaper cutting `Last call for the corncrake?` by Robin Page, with photocopies.

Article about the falling numbers of corncrakes in Britain, the author`s visit to Tiree in 1989, and the recommendation that Tiree is declared an Environmentally Sensitive Area to protect the corncrakes` habitat.

2001.198.1

Audio cassette recording of Angus MacLean interviewed by Maggie Campbell in Scarinish on 20/11/01.

Angus MacLean of Scarinish talks to Maggie Campbell in November 2001 about his time in the fire service after the RAF left, the first fire leader Neil Gunn from Heanish and his team, the Western Area Fire Service in the 1950s, using a Hathaway pump, the fire box at Taigh na Beairt in Scarinish, the new fire station beside the hotel, the first fire tender in 1970, the better equipment under Strathclyde Fire Brigade, several fires including two fatal ones and the improvements in the service.