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Collection GD33 - Stornoway Fishing Museum
Identity area
Reference code
GB3002 GD33
Title
Stornoway Fishing Museum
Date(s)
- 1960s-1989 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
0.5 linear metres
Context area
Name of creator
Stornoway Fishing Museum
(1980s)
Administrative history
Plans were made in the in the 1970s/80s for a Fishing Industry Museum in Stornoway, lead by the Lewis Museum Society . Plans were abandoned with the formation of a Council-lead museum in the 1980s.
Name of creator
Lewis Museum Society
(?)
Administrative history
Repository
Archival history
Transferred to Tasglann nan Eilean Siar from Stornoway library
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Deposit: Frank Thompson of Stornoway Historical Society and Lewis Museum Society: c1989
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The intention of the collection initially was to form a Fishing Industry Museum in Stornoway, however, this was abandoned upon the formation of a Comhairle run museum in the 1980s.
Extracts from DAFS registry of fishing boats, n.d., Folder listing Lewis Museum Collections, 1989, Card index files of persons and vessels, n.d., Clippings and photographs, 1960-1970s
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
The material has not been formally arranged
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Open
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Paper records
Finding aids
No catalogues or box lists of the collection have yet been produced
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Stornoway Fishing Museum (Creator)
- Lewis Museum Society (Creator)
- Department for Agriculture and Fisheries in Scotland (Subject)
