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Collection GD33 - Stornoway Fishing Museum
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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

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

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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

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Accruals

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The material has not been formally arranged

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Conditions governing access

Open

Conditions governing reproduction

Language of material

  • English

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Paper records

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No catalogues or box lists of the collection have yet been produced

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