Local news including the allocation of the flats at Lower Square, Hynish, delays in receiving LEADER funds, yearly warning about toxoplasmosis, the end of Coisir Thiriodh, the airport tax and a proposed study of the role of arts and entertainment in Argyll and the Islands.
Letter dated 17/8/2003 from Derek Clarke of Balemartine giving information about three photographs.
Letter dated 17/8/2003 from Derek Clarke of Balemartine giving information about three photographs and the changeover of responsibility of the airport equipment from the RAF to the CAA..
Black and white photograph of two RAF men, Margaret Lamont and Flora MacInnes in 1968.
Ruaig in 1968. L-R: unknown RAF technician, Margaret Lamont (wife of Charlie Lamont, Ruaig), RAF Sergeant Clark, Floraidh MacInnes from Northern Ireland (Margaret`s sister), photographed before the handover of the airport to the CAA.
Black and white photograph of two RAF men having their last breakfast on Tiree in Ruaig in 1968.
Ruaig in 1968. L-R: unknown RAF technician and RAF Sergeant Clark having their last breakfast at Ruaig before handing over the running of the airport to Derek Clark and Brian Jefferson of the CAA.
Photocopied extract `The Buildings of Scotland – Argyll and Bute` by Frank Arneil Walker, pp 594-600.
Descriptions of townships and buildings, churches and chapels, burial grounds and cemeteries, monuments and memorials, duns, forts and broch, standing stones, airport and piers, Sandaig museum, Skerryvore and the Hynish complex.
Audio cassette recording of Angus MacLean of Scarinish interviewed by Maggie Campbell on 3/4/2003.
Angus MacLean (Aonghas Dhòmhnuill Eòghainn Mhòr) of Scarinish talks to Maggie Campbell about Tiree’s plane service from 1934 to the present day, about the various companies that flew to the island, the routes and aircraft used, his work and colleagues at the airport fire service, the fuel supply and runways, the Met Office and Captain David Barclay.