Met Office folder labelled `Maps & Diagrams – Island, Airfield`.
Met Office folder containing statistics (climatological means and extremes, diagrams of the weather station, routine duties by staff and other information dating 1975-2001.
Photocopied newspaper article about William Groat.
Article about Wiiliam Groat, former bank manager on Tiree, whose invention to stop tyre blow-outs on aeroplanes, has been taken up the RAF.
The Campbell-Stokes Heliograph sunshine recorder from Tiree Met Station.
Courtesy of Mr Ray Sharp
The Campbell-Stokes sunshine recorder was invented in 1853 by John Francis Campbell, the editor of ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, and modified by Sir George Gabriel Stokes in 1879. It consists of a glass sphere, about ten centimetres in diameter, mounted on a metal stand.
Manufactured to Met Office specification, the glass sphere focuses the rays of the sun to an intense spot which chars a mark on a curved graduated card mounted concentrically with the sphere. As the earth rotates, the position of the spot moves across the card. The card is held in place by grooves, of which there are three overlapping sets, to allow for the height of the sun during different seasons of the year.
Its main advantage is its simplicity and ease of use. However, the results require interpretation by an observer and may differ from one person to another.
Collection of papers from Tiree Met Office.
Collection of papers regarding the closure of Tiree Met Office: extracts from Hansard, e-mails, letters, Met Office news releases, newpaper cuttings. Charts for 1961-1990 showing average monthly wind speed, temperature, sunshine and highest recorded gusts. Warnings book, Register of Correspondence , 2001 year planner.
Folder containing Tiree Met Office local staff instructions and visibility points.
Folder containing local staff instructions for Tiree Airport Met Office 1998-2000 and annotated colour photographs showing the visibility points around the Met Office as at June 1995.
Met Office Daily Register October 1996 – April 2001.
Met Office Daily Register October 1996 – April 2001.
Letter from Scottish and Southern Energy PLC dated 15/3/2001.
Letter to Dr John Holliday from Scottish and Southern Energy PLC dated 15/3/2001 about electricity supplies to Tiree and Coll.
Colour photograph of MSP George Lyons at Tiree High School in December 2000.
Question and answer session at Tiree High School in December 2000. L-R: Dawn MacLean, Balephuil; MSP George Lyons; Davis Hunter, Cornaigmore. © Oban Times.
Colour photograph of Foot and Mouth Notice on Tiree in 2001.
Food and Mouth Notice on gate at Loch an Eilein in April 2001.
Colour photograph of Susan Lamont at the pier in 2001.
Susan Lamont of Croish, the Green spraying vehicles with disinfectant against foot and mouth disease at the pierhead in 2001.
