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...
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 Barr...
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 ...
This document is essentially a supplement to "Kitchen Rudders Going Full Circle", which can be found online on scribd.com - Contrary to the persuasions of many writers and texts, 'Jack' Kitchen was...
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...
During The Second World War and in early post-war years, many of the warships visiting Rothesay Bay, The Holy Loch and The Clyde used 'picket' and 'liberty boats' to ferry crews and supplies to and...
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...
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 int...
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 ...
The entries here have been sorted by 'town' or village or parish, some spellings and names sometimes differing slightly from those in use today and the surnames, in the case of each 'town' or vil...
A collection of Campbeltonians' World War II memories, edited by Norman Newton and published in 1986 by Strthclyde Regional Council - Too big to load directly here and consequently the link here...
A photocopy of the booklet which should have, but didn't always, accompany copies of Argyll and Bute Council's Library Service's 2½ hour long video tape of the MacGrory brothers slide collection ...
An UN-ILLUSTRATED history of the Campbeltown Steamers, their last ships the DAVAAR and the DALRIADA, the company founded in 1826 and the company used as a 'vehicle' to found Caledonian MacBrayne ...
An UN-ILLUSTRATED history of the steamer and ferry services to Tarbert's East Loch and West Loch piers, to Gigha, to Islay etc. and from Campbeltown to Red Bay and Ballycastle in Northern Ireland.
An UN-ILLUSTRATED history of the Campbeltown Steamers, their last ships the DAVAAR and the DALRIADA, the company founded in 1826 and the company used as a 'vehicle' to found Caledonian MacBrayne ...
An UN-ILLUSTRATED history of the steamer and ferry services to Tarbert's East Loch and West Loch piers, to Gigha, to Islay etc. and from Campbeltown to Red Bay and Ballycastle in Northern Ireland.
Built in 1934 and employing some 45 people, Cefoil's seaweed processing factory at Bellochantuy was so successful that officials from the wartime government shut it down and transferred processing...
In October 1798, some French ships, sent to support an Irish uprising, came close inshore to Kintyre, the crew of one ship landing to kill a few sheep for fresh meat - In a state of great ala...