Tag Archives: cornaigmore

2003.10.2

Photocopied letter from Donald O. Maclean dated 7/9/1925 to Major Goldie at the Edinburgh Met Office.

Letter from Donald O. Maclean dated 7/9/1925 to Major Goldie at the Edinburgh Met Office about the erection of a telephone line to Cornaigmore and the five individuals prepared to stand guarantor for the annual running cots.

2003.10.4

Photocopied letter from the Assistant Director of the Air Ministry Met Office dated 7/2/1925 to the Superintendent of the Edinburgh Met Office.

Letter from the Assistant Director of the Air Ministry Met Office dated 7/2/1925 to the Superintendent of the Edinburgh Met Office about a proposed visit to Tiree to assess the situation re a telegraph or telephone line to Cornaigmore.

2003.10.6

Photocopied letter to Mr A. H. Ross, headmaster of Cornaigmore School, dated 14/4/1925 from the Superintendent of Edinburgh Met Office about delaying the telegraphic weather reporting station on Tiree until guarantors can be found to bear 40% of the costs required by the Post Office.

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2003.10.23

Scanned photograph of Cornaig Met Station in 1935.

View from the southwest corner of the Met Station enclosure at Cornaig Shool on 17/5/1935. with handwritten notes identifying the hydrograph, rain guage, sunshine recorder and thermometer and thermograph screens. (Duplicated in 2003.10.28 but without handwriting)

2003.10.7

Photocopied letter to the Director of Education, Argyll County Council, dated 26/5/1925 from the Superintendent of the Edinburgh Met Office proposing that the headmaster of Cornaig School is employed as the observer for the weather reporting station at a rate of £50 p.a. The equipment and duties involved are listed.

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2003.10.24.1

Four photographs of the Met Station at Cornaig in 1926.

Printed scans of four black & white photographs of the Metereological Station at Cornaig School in 1926: (1) thermometer and thermograph screens viewed form the south, with the schoolhouse in the background, (2) anemometer hut viewed from the northwest, with the school in the backgound, (3) anemometer hut viewed from the north, (4) unfinished interior of the anemometer hut.