MacFarlane Album

• Reference:GB 3143 09/7
• Dates of Creation:1967 - 1970

• Scope and Content

  MacFarlane Album. Comprises newspaper clippings, correspondence, and photographs. Mostly re. County business (particularly structural planning), but also with a number of biographical features on Dr MacFarlane.

  Also including information on:

  the national road development program, 1967 and the opening of the "Renfrew Bypass Motorway", 1968, and subsequent road and motorway building;

  a proposed oil refinery at Bishopton, 1967-1969;

  development of the Erskine Bridge, 1968 & 1970;

  Erskine New Town, 1968-1970;

  development of the Hunterson industrial site, 1969-1970;

  plans for local government re-organisation, 1969-1970;

  the Council's first purchase of a computer, 1969;

  opening of the Renfrewshire [Clyde Muirshiel] Regional Park, 1970.