Tag Archives: raf

1997.265.44

Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 9, 13/6/1990.

Local news including CalMac`s 1991 summer timetable, the new bilingual unit at the school, the Sandaig museum run by the Hebridean Trust, the school swimming trip and annual clean-up, the visit by ex-RAF Tiree airmen and an article in Gaelic about Lady Victoria Campbell by Mary Flora Campbell.

2003.141.5

Black and white photograph of two RAF men, Margaret Lamont and Flora MacInnes in 1968.

Ruaig in 1968. L-R: unknown RAF technician, Margaret Lamont (wife of Charlie Lamont, Ruaig), RAF Sergeant Clark, Floraidh MacInnes from Northern Ireland (Margaret`s sister), photographed before the handover of the airport to the CAA.

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2003.141.7

Black and white photograph of Margaret Lamont, Floraidh MacInnes, two RAF men and six foster-children in Ruaig in 1968.

Ruaig in 1968. L-R: (back) Margaret Dunne, unknown RAF technician; Margaret Lamont, wife of Charlie Lamont and foster-mother of the six children in the photograph; RAF Sergeant Clark; Floraidh MacInnes, Margaret’s sister; (middle) Robert Leppard; (front) Steven Corbett; Samuel Dunne; Steven Leppard; James Dunne.

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1997.246.1

Binder `The Island of Tiree 1941 – 1943` containing an account of George Holleyman’s time on Tiree, plus 123 related photographs.

Account by RAF policeman and amateur archaeologist George Holleyman FSA of his time on Tiree between September 1941 and June 1943. Includes seventy-five photographs taken on Tiree by George Holleyman between September 1941 and June 1943, and forty-eight black and white photographs/postcards taken by unknown photographer(s). George Holleyman carried out significant amounts of pioneering archaeological work in Sussex  during the first half of the 20th century along with Drs. Eliot and Cecil Curwen. He was made a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries  in 1949.

2000.128.1

Black and white photograph of the RAF Tiree Corporals` Club in August 1945.

 

RAF Tiree Corporals` Club in August 1945. Reg Knight, Flixton, Manchester (back row, 2nd left); Alex Harvey, Kilmarnock (middle row, 2nd left); Harry Barr, Birmingham (middle row 5th left); Ken Aldred, Macclesfield (front row, 4th right).

2003.127.13

Aviation map of Great Britain, Sheet 3 – The Highlands, RAF Edtion (War).

Aviation map (RAF Edtion) of Scotland from Prestwick in the south to Ullapool in the north at a scale of 1:500,000.