MacFarlane Album

• Reference:GB 3143 09/5
• Dates of Creation:1947 - 1960

• Scope and Content

  MacFarlane Album. Comprises newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, invitations, etc. Mostly re. County business (including planning and housing) and the Scottish Unionist Association, but also including:

  brochure for the Eastwood Gymkhana and Fete, 1948;

  Sea Cadet's exercises on Cumbrae, 1949;

  results of the election to the County Council 1949;

  numerous car and motorcycle racing programmes from across Scotland;

  electrification of the railways 1953-54;

  County development plans, 1953-54;

  the Coronation and Royal visits to Renfrewshire, 1953 & 58;

  the Mill blaze at Netherlee, 1953;

  article from the "Mercury" on the Pollution of the River Cart, 1954;

  plans for Houston to become a New Town, 1955;

  County council house rent protests, 1955;

  development plans, and opposition thereto, for Eaglesham, 1956-59;

  "Scotsman" feature on Cartbank Castle, the home of Dr. Macfarlane, focussing on a ground-water heat pump which he designed and built, 1957;

  Dr. Macfarlane's appointment to the Royal Commission on Police, 1959-60;

  development of a motor car factory at Linwood, 1960;

  alcohol licensing hours, 1960.