Photocopied newspaper article about the closure of Barcaldine`s Kelco factory
Eighty job losses as Kelco factory closes at Barcaldine. Some workers may be transferred to the Girvan factory, but many will now be unemployed.
2000.8.8
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2000.8.9.1
Newspaper articles about seaweed cutters losing their jobs in Uist, 1998-99
Two photocopied newspaper articles about the potential loss of jobs in Uist: (1) Kelco – the Girvan-based producer of alginates is to stop buying wet seaweed from the Uists, (2) Meeting about the seaweed industry in the Western Isles following Kelco`s decision to stop taking seaweed from the Uists.
2002.67.1
Colour scan of brass plate.
Colour scan of brass plate from the Glassary seaweed factory cart engraved `NORTH BRITISH CHEMICAL CO. LD. TYREE NO. 1`.
2000.4.5
Printout from Flora Celtica website: `A Brief History of Scottish Seaweed Use`
Earliest uses, soda potash & iodine in the 17th – 20th centuries, alginates in the 20th century, the current state of the industry.
2002.58.6
Photocopied extract `On the Economic Applications of Seaweed` by Edward C. C. Stanford.
Description of seaweeds and their various uses, e.g. food, medicine, manure and the manufacture of kelp; Stanford`s new process that doubled the extraction of iodine.
2002.58.7
Photocopied extract `On the Utilization of Peat` by B. H. Paul
Description of the uses of peat with comments by Edward C. C. Stanford.
1999.11.9
Photocopied letter from Howe-Stanford to unknow recipient dated 3/7/1876.
Letter detailing conditions for lease on property for seaweed factory at Middleton.
1999.11.10
Photocopied letter from Edward C. C. Stanford to His Grace the Duke of Argyll, 26/1/1875.
Letter to the Duke of Argyll from Mr Stanford of British Seaweed Co Ltd., asking for a secretary of factor to be sent to witness the good done by the company in Tyree.
1997.48.1
Photocopy of book `Argyll Estates Instructions` 1771-1805 edited by Eric Cregeen.
The instructions given by John, the 5th Duke of Argyll to his Chamberlain in Mull and Morvern and his Chamberlain in Tiree with an introduction by Eric Cregeen.
Available to read online here: National Library of Scotland