Extract from `Hansard` about Dr Ray Michie debating the closure of theTiree Met Office on 10/5/2000.
Minutes of a debate opened by Dr Ray Michie in the House of Commons on 10th May 2000 about the closure of theTiree Met Office, with a letter from MP Jenny Jones.
Colour photograph of the interior of Tiree Met Office.
The interior of Tiree Met Office.
Colour photograph of the interior of Tiree Met Office.
The interior of Tiree Met Office.
Colour photograph of the interior of Tiree Met Office.
The interior of Tiree Met Office.
Colour photograph of the interior of Tiree Met Office.
The interior of Tiree Met Office.
Colour photograph of the interior of Tiree Met Office.
The interior of Tiree Met Office.
Colour photograph of the interior of Tiree Met Office.
The interior of Tiree Met Office.
Audio cassette recording of Angus MacKechnie of Crossapol talking to Maggie Campbell in December 1999.
Angus MacKechnie of Crossapol talks to Maggie Campbell in December 1999 about starting work at Edinburgh Airport fire service in 1968, returning to Tiree in 1971 when a qualified fire-fighter, the first flights from the Reef in the 1930s, the construction of Tiree airport during WWII, the people who worked at the airport, the many jobs fire-fighters were expected to do, the regular pilots, air ambulance procedures, Met Station reports, compulsory courses and air crash simulations, various stories about passenger flights and the differences between working at Tiree and Edinburgh airports.
Colour photograph of Moraig and Norrie Lyall in 2001.
Moraig and Norrie Lyall on the day Norrie left Tiree met Office in August 2001.
Newspaper feature `Down your way – Isle of Tiree`, 2001
Oban Times feature about Tiree: (1) `Busy school to have mini roadway` – mini roadway to be built at the school to teach pre-fives about road safety, (2) `Island Met Office gearing up for winding down` – the impending closure of Tiree Meteorological Station with photograph, (3) `State-of-the-art dental surgery replaces caravan` – the new dental surgery at Baugh with photograph, (4) `Meeting hears new Crossapol Hall no nearer` – the withdrawal of funding for the new hall and the plan to redesign another, (5) `Wish I was here on Tiree` – the visit from a travelling art gallery and Aonghais MacNeacail`s talk about his poetry in An Iodhlann.
