Black and white photograph of Andrew MacLeod at the Hough radio station.
Andrew MacLeod at the Hough radio station around 1960. Andrew was the son of John MacLeod, a Communication Officer with Ministry of Civil Aviation, who came to Tiree in 1947 or 1948.
Communication Officer John MacLeod
Photograph of John MacLeod at the radio station on Ben Hough in the late 1950s.
Courtesy of Mr Andrew MacLeod
A Communication Officer with Ministry of Civil Aviation, John MacLeod came to Tiree in the late 1940s. Initially he was based in the wartime Control Tower at the airport but subsequently relocated to a building at the top of Ben Hough.
The purpose of the station was to provide radio communications and position fixing services to aircraft flying over the West of Scotland and the Hebrides. In those days air to ground communications were by Morse code and all aircraft carried a radio officer.
If there was an ambulance flight to Tiree or one of the other islands, John would be called out, even in the middle of the night, and would have to climb the steps to the top of Ben Hough, in darkness and often rain and gales.
Black and white photograph of Communications Officer John MacLeod at the Hough radio station.
John MacLeod at the radio station at the top of Ben Hough in the late 1950s. A Communication Officer with Ministry of Civil Aviation, John came to Tiree in 1947 or 1948. The station provided radio communications and position fixing services to aircraft flying over the West of Scotland and the Hebrides.
Account by David Murdoch who worked in Wireless Telegraphy in Tiree in the 1970s.
Account by David Murdoch of his time working in Tiree for the Wireless Telegraphy Section of the Post Office in the 1970s.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 348, 23/7/2005.
Local news and events including the Agricultural Show, An Talla one year on, Tiree broadband performance, an appeal for refurbishment of the manse and news from the Feis.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 340, 2/4/2005.
Local news and events including the new visitor information centre, the refurbishment of Taigh a` Rudha, Argyll & Bute Design Guide, a broadband update, Scarinish harbour and Gott pier improvements project, the flower book and Coll magazine project and news from the youth club, RSPB, the regatta club and the school.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 336, 5/2/2005.
Local news and events including the Council`s scrapping the rebuild of Tiree High School, the local councillor`s viewpoint, an update about broadband, the wind turbine feasibility study and news from the school, the WRI and the RSPB.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 334, 8/1/2005.
Local news and events including the `Ring `n` Ride` community bus service, article by Councillor Ian Gillies, the Crossapol Environment Improvement Scheme, the 2004 Senior Citizens` Party in Talla, broadband update and news from the youth club.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 329, 16/10/2004.
Local news and events including Tiree Community Broadband, the Wave Classic and the regular article by councillor Ian Gillies.
Audio cassette recording of Angus Munn and Neil Johnston of Heanish talking to Dr John Holliday in November 1998.
Angus Munn and Neil Johnston of Heanish talk to Dr John Holliday in November 1998 about their schooling and teachers, delivering telegrams, the last trip of the Mary Stewart, the start of WWII, the police service during the war, the mine that damaged the Bank House, the Embarkation Unit and the Fighter Block at Heanish, Preston Potts, a trip to Scapa Flow, the police station at Heanish, shebeens, Clann Alasdair in Baugh, the Malve, horses, Cornaig police station, ceilidhs and the Reading Room.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 523, 4/9/2004.
Local news and events including the arrival of broadband, civil marriages, the draft marketing framework, August`s lamb and cattle sales, Tiree Agricultural Society`s show winners, Gordon Scott`s bicycling tour round the Hebrides and news from the gardening club, the school and the RSPB.
