Identity area
Reference code
GB 249 JCE/22/7/6
Title
Press cutting about John Cunningham
Date(s)
- September 1999 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 p.
Context area
Name of creator
(1927-1980)
Biographical history
John Crabbe Cunningham was born in Duke Street, Glasgow in 1927. At the age of 17, he became a member of the Creagh Dhu Mountaineering Club. He visited New Zealand, the Himalayas, Antarctica and Nepal rock climbing and spent many years working for the British Antarctic Survey. He was a student at Jordanhill College of Education from 1965 to 1967, studying a youth leaders' course.
Cunningham was killed in 1980, when a wave swept him to his death below the sea cliffs at Anglesey.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Newspaper article about John Cunningham entitled 'Hard Man of the Hills' by Tom Prentice, published in the Herald, 11 September 1999.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Open
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English