Photocopied letter to the Superintendent of the Edinburgh Met Office dated 17/8/1925 from the Air Ministry Met Office in London.
Letter from the Superintendent of the Edinburgh Met Office dated 17/8/1925 from the Air Ministry Met Office in London asking for arrangements for establishing the Met Station at Cornaigmore to proceed as soon as the telegraph wire is installed. The weather observations to be taken and despatched are listed.
Photocopied letter from the Superintendent of the Edinburgh Met Office dated 13/6/1925 to the Air Ministry Met Office in London about the guarantors required by the Post Office in respect of the extension of the telephone line and replacement of the headmaster of Cornaig School when Mr Ross leaves.
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Photocopied report on the visit of P. G. May and J. S. Dines to Tiree in December 1925.
Report by P. G. May and J. S. Dines to Cornaigmore in December 1925 about the site chosen for the Met Station.
Photocopied letter from the Air Ministry Met Office dated 21/8/1929 to the new headmaster of Cornaig School.
Letter from the Air Ministry Met Office dated 21/8/1929 to J. R. Morrison, the new headmaster of Cornaig School, who is to undertake the observer duties previously done by D. O. MacLean.
Photocopied letter to Argyll County Clerk dated 15/4/1926 from the Superintendent of the Met Office.
Letter to Argyll County Clerk dated 15/4/1926 from the Superintendent of the Met Office about permission to use a plot of school ground for the Met Station.
Photocopied notes about the Met Station at Cornaigmore School.
Notes about the Met Station at Cornaig School.
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.
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.
The Met. Station at Tiree Aerodrome during World War II.
Photograph of the Met. Station at Tiree Aerodrome during World War II.
Courtesy of Mr Archie MacKinnon
In October 1942 the Air Ministry took over the running of the Tiree Met. Station, moving most of the equipment to the RAF aerodrome at Crossapol. The new office was sited in the Operations Block and staffed by RAF personnel.
The instruments were moved to the north-east of the office in the area now known as the Camp, with the exception of the anemometer which remained at Cornaig School and was read by the Met. Office Observer until 1956.
During the war years, 518 Squadron flew weather reconnaissance missions twice daily in long-range Halifax aircraft travelling around 1,600 miles per trip. Observations were transmitted at intervals and picked up by ground stations.
Scan of first report about the Met Station at Cornaig dated September 1926.
First report dated 15-17/9/1926 made by J. J. Somerville about the site, outfit, exposure and observer of the Met Station at Cornaig School and the possibility of installing a phone line.
