Type R1155 Radio receiver from a Halifax aircraft from RAF Tiree
with a set of DLR No.5 Headphones
Purchased at auction by An Iodhlann 6 June 2024 and returned to Tiree. With label, ” ‘found its way into the kitbag’ of an airman returning to the mainland just after the war had ended!” Originally donated to Mike Hughes by Flt Sgt Les Cobb, 518 Squadron, Tiree (1943-45) before or during 2000.
Summaries of climate statistics collected at the Met Office on Tiree during 1962-1971, and covering letter, 2018. Courtesy of the National Meteorological Archive.
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Weather data collected at the Tiree Metereological Office, January 1928 to September 2015: max. temp; min. temp; af (days); rain; sunshine hours.
Correspondence regarding the weather station at Cornaigmore in the 1920s
Photocopies of correspondence regarding the installation of the weather station at Cornaigmore School in the 1920s. From Kew National Archives. See 2013.72.2 for accompanying maps.
Maps regarding the weather station at Cornaigmore, 1926
Photocopies of two maps pertaining to the installation of the weather station at Cornaigmore School in the 1920s. One is a plan of the location of the weather station at the school hand-drawn by Argyll Estates with reference to the Feu Contract. The other is a hand-annotated Ordnance Survey map showing the location in the context of Tiree. From Kew National Archives. Also see 2013.72.1 for accompanying letters.
Booklet `Winds of Change` 2004
Booklet tracing the history of Tiree`s weather station and early flights to the island, the RAF, traditional methods of forecasting the weather and weather extremes. Researched by Dr John Holliday for a summer exhibition at An Iodhlann.
Photograph of Cornaigmore School, shed and met station in the 1930s
Black & white photograph of Cornaigmore School in the 1930s, with the meteorological station within a fenced enclosure on the far right and a new shed on the left. The Met Office was looked after by the headmaster D.O. MacLean.
DVD compilation of old films about Tiree
DVD compilation of six old films about Tiree created for the 2009 Feis Thiriodh film show from archive material from An Iodhlann – with accompanying programme. (1) Family holiday on Tiree 1957, (2) formation of the Crofters` Union 1985, (3) centenary of 1886 Crofters Act 1986, (4) Tiree Association sports day and first commercial flight 1929, (5) Tiree school trip to see concord at Heathrow 1984, (6) about Tiree with a ceilidh in the Lodge Hotel 1992.
Slide rule in its box used for Met Office observations
Slide rule used to calculate vapour pressure, humidity and dew point from dry & wet bulb temperature readings by Lachie MacLean, Druimfraoich, when he was a Met Office observer on Tiree. In its original green cardboard box. The data would be used to make weather forecasts.
Key to Met Office weather symbols. Laminated sheet used by Lachie MacLean, Druimfraoich, when he worked as a Met Office observer on Tiree.
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