Tag Archives: schools

1999.117.18

Black and white photograph of the MacLeans at Cornaigmore School.

The MacLeans at Cornaigmore School in the 1920s or 1930s. L-R: (back row) headmaster D.O. MacLean, Janet, Grace, Mary and her brother John; (middle row) Archie (Lochside), Catriona , Flora, Mary Margaret, Mary (Port na Criche), Alasdair (brother of Mary and John), John (Lochside); (front) Donald (Ardbeg) and Hugh.

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2003.11.2

Audio cassette recording of Maggie Campbell talking about her interview with Jean MacFadyen, Balemartine in December 2002.

Maggie Campbell talks about her interview about school meals with Jean MacFadyen of Balemartine in December 2002. She talks about the women who prepared the meals, the cooker they used, the cost of the meals and the menu.

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.

2003.10.8

Photocopied letter to the Superintendent of the Edinburgh Met Office dated 27/8/1925 from the Argyll County Clerk.

Letter to the Superintendent of the Edinburgh Met Office dated 27/8/1925 from the Argyll County Clerk approving the headmaster D. O MacLean to run the Met Station at Cornaigmore.