Plan of the anti-blast bricks for Tiree Repeater Station dated 1965.
Plan of the anti-blast bricks for Tiree Repeater Station produced by the Ministry of Public Works, Glasgow in 1965.
1998.30.5
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1998.29.2.1
Photocopied article about the loss of the Fokker XXII aircraft `Sylvia Scarlet`, with an accompanying letter.
(1) Article from `Fly Past` Magazine, 1982, about the loss of the Fokker plane `Sylvia Scarlet` shortly after departing from Tiree on 3/7/1943. (2) Letter from Peter Moran, editor of `Aviation Archaeologist` Magazine, dated 27/11/1981 to donor, giving information about the crew of the `Sylvia Scarlet`.
1998.33.7
Photocopied newspaper cutting about air services to the Scottish islands.
The air service to the Highlands and Island is to be improved in 1967 by replacing the Heralds with Viscount aircraft except to Barra and Tiree
2003.20.1
Colour photograph of Angus MacKechnie, Alasdair and Ellen Campbell in 1999.
L-R: Alasdair Campbell (son of Maggie Campbell, Kilmoluaig), Angus MacKechnie of Crossapol and Ellen Campbell, Alasdair`s daughter, taken at the airport on the day Angus retired from the airport fire service in November 1999.
2003.21.1
Photograph of Mary MacPhee, her baby, and a friend outside the old telephone exchange at Scarinish in 1949.
Courtesy of Mrs Mary MacPhee
Mary T. MacPhee, a friend and Mary’s son, either Christopher or Neil Urquhart in the pram, pictured outside the old telephone exchange in Scarinish in 1949. Mary had previously worked shifts at the Pitt Street exchange in Glasgow which had around two hundred operators.
In Scarinish, Mary worked twenty-four hours a day. The building had three bedrooms, a bathroom, a kitchen and a sitting room which contained the switchboard. The operator had to connect all calls by hand. If a call came in at night an alarm bell rang in the operator’s bedroom.
Mary recalls there being only around five private telephones on the island in 1949. Calls cost one penny, sixpence or a shilling and all were monitored. The operator would interrupt to advise when the time was nearly up.
2000.26.12
Black and white photograph of a Heron airplane at Tiree airport.
A Heron airplane at Tiree airport. Herons served Tiree from 1955-1973 as service aircraft with BEA and BA and also as air ambulances all over Scotland.
2000.26.23
Black and white photograph of a Heron airplane at Tiree airport.
A Heron airplane at Tiree airport. Herons served Tiree from 1955-1973 as service aircraft with BEA and BA and also as air ambulances all over Scotland.
1998.19.1
Four letters and one document about television reception on Tiree.
Letters and document about the first television on Tiree installed between 1955 and 1958 and owned by Douglas Rundell.
2003.11.1
Audio cassette recording of Maggie Campbell talking about her interview with Mary MacPhee, Scarinish on 11/1/2003.
Maggie Campbell talks about her interview with Mary T. MacPhee of Scarinish in January 2003 who worked in the old telephone exchange in Scarinish in 1949 after working at the Pitt Street Exchange in Glasgow. The building is described in detail, as well as the switchboard and how calls were made, connected and paid for. She also talks about emergency calls, the people on Tiree who had a phone in 1949 and the first telephone engineer on the island.
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.