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In the Wake of The Maggie
from Kintyre On Record
"The Maggie", made in 1954, is in many ways superior to the later, BBC-made, television comedies about Para Handy and the "Vital Spark", these largely studio-based and much of "The Maggie" shot on location in and around Glasgow, Greenock, Crinan and Islay, two location sequences shot on K...
McConnachie's Campbeltown Buses
from Kintyre On Record in Research, History
Here Dunoon's John Openshaw's colour photographs of McConnachie's buses have been captioned with detail from "On The Buses", a full history of Kintyre's buses, which can be found in the 'Kintyre On Record' here on scribd.com. / Photographs include those of a single deck ex-Halifax Corporation AE...
The Cantyre Telegraph Line
from Kintyre On Record in Research, History
Opened on Friday, September 4, 1865, in the presence of The Duke of Argyll, The Provost of Campbeltown and the company's chairman, the company also bringing its previously private circuits, to Barrhead and Greenock, also into public use, Cantyre's telegraph line ran from from Glasgow to Bowling a...
Kilchenzie's Saint - Kenneth, Cainnech of Aghaboe
from Kintyre On Record in Research, History
The name Kilchenzie may derive from Cainnech of Aghaboe, his real name Cainnech moccu Dalánn, known as Saint Kenneth in Scotland and variously as Saint Canice, Saint Canicus and Saint Kenny known as Saint Canice in Ireland, he born around 515 or 516 and dying about the age of 84 or 85 in 600 AD. ...
Birds of Loch Fyne
from Kintyre On Record in Research, History
This is essentially a supplementary list to complement the "Birds of Kintyre - Online Wikipedia Links" uploaded earlier to the 'Kintyre On Record' archives on scribd.com, where there are Wikipedia links to most of the birds here and, in many cases, to online video of the birds and their songs.
In Campbeltown Once More - The DVD Video
from Kintyre On Record in Books, Non-fiction
Released in November 2009, Freddy Gillies' video, as one will see from its 'menu contents' above, gives an interesting view of 'The Wee Toon' in the 21st century and, following a tour of the town's main streets and most recent housing developments, highlights the mix of industries, traditional an...
War Economy Recipe Book
from Kintyre On Record in Recipes & Menus
With war came supposedly healthier eating habits, this little collection of recipes from New Zealand perhaps of interest to today's peoples suffering a surfeit of junk food and wondering what could ever have been tempting about cakes, biscuits and puddings made without butter and but minimal sugar.
AfterThe Moonshiners - George Wesley Wheeling - 1881
from Kintyre On Record in Research, History
Though American in focus, the work and the business of the Revenue Officers, apart from the carrying of firearms, could have been little different in Scotland or Ireland and, amongst the later tales in the volume, Major E. D. Kennedy, late of The United States Army and a native of Scotland, re...
1854 Public Houses Scotland) Act and the Rise of Whisky D...
from Kintyre On Record in Research, History
Given 'The 2005 Licensing (Scotland) Act', it makes sense to reflect on the effect of 'The Act' of 150 years earlier, it said then that, both as regards to the requirements for shutting up public-houses during the entire Sunday (as compared with the former law, which required them to be shut onl...
Inveraray's Bell Tower
from Kintyre On Record in Research, History
At the end of WWI, Niall Campbell, The 10th Duke of Argyll and Honorary Colonel of The 8th Battalion of The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, commissioned architects Hoare and Wheeler to design a memorial bell tower in Inveraray to commemorate The Clan Campbell dead, the original idea being to l...
Lochinvar and the Donna Nook
from Kintyre On Record in Research, History
The story of MacBrayne's "Lochinvar", launched at Scott's of Bowling on Thursday, April 16, 1908 and, largely due to what might in hindsight be called 'arrogance', wrecked, with the loss of all her 13 crew, on Lincolnshire's Donna Nook on the night of Saturday, April 2, 1966, in a well-forecasted...
1839 Eglinton Tournament
from Kintyre On Record in Research, History
In September 2009, art expert James Knox, a trustee of The National Galleries of Scotland, beat two English based dealers at auction and paid £7,500 for eight of the original forty shields, each 69 cms high and 53 cms wide, found in an attic of Skelmorlie Castle, commissioned as trophies for The...
Carradale Antler - 206 - November 2009
from Kintyre On Record in Magazines & Newspapers
CARRADALE SURGERY NEWS - PATIENT SURVEY AND PATIENT GROUP AGM - SADDELL and CARRADALE CHURCH GUILD - A LARGER TESCO PRESENCE - A NEW CREAMERY - MOON APOLOGY - SPLASH DOWN - KINTYRE INITIATIVE NOTES - DOORS OPEN DAYS IN KINTYRE -SEPTEMBER RAINFALL - CARRADALE - A FACTOR'S DIARY - Entries from Dece...
Carradale - A Factor's Diary - Entries From December 1862...
from Kintyre On Record in Research, History
The diary entries here first appeared in the pages of the November 2009 '(Carradale) Antler' and, that their content may be of interest to many researchers generally and may be easier found by internet search engines if published additionally and separately from 'The Antler' issue, the document...
From Bellochantuy to Berlin - The Story of a Fisherman's ...
from Kintyre On Record in Research, History
This is the story of Peter Blackstock's war, he joining The Royal Navy Patrol Service and, following his early years of minesweeping, Peter joined 'HDML 1227' only to be sunk off Greece and, taken prisoner, sent to Germany's notorious Stalag IIIA POW camp at Luckenwalde, to the south of Berlin, t...
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