Category: History
Road to Drumleman – The Original! Written and performed by Willie Mitchell
Road to Drumleman – Original! Written and performed by Willie Mitchell. The Road to Drumleman – This is the Original! Written and performed by Willie Mitchell (c1956) Willie composed the words to this song eight years before this recording was made, setting them to a tune he already knew. His song became very popular with […] Read More
A Man’s A Man For A’ That
A Man’s A Man For A’ That – By Robert Burns – 1795 Is there for honest Poverty That hings his head, an’ a’ that; The coward slave-we pass him by, We dare be poor for a’ that! For a’ that, an’ a’ that. Our toils obscure an’ a’ that, The rank is but the […] Read More
A sad day for Machrihanish Golf Club.
The Machrihanish Golf Club Clubhouse has been destroyed by a blaze which started around lunchtime yesterday 19th December 2018. Thankfully there were no injuries although the Club Steward and his family have been made homeless by the blaze. A ‘GoFundMe page has been created to try and raise some funds to help rebuild the Club […] Read More
1918-2018 Thank You
Roll of honour from the Campbeltown and Parish War Memorial for 1914-1918. Total names on memorial: 349 In Flanders Fields By John McCrae In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns […] Read More
Tam o’ Shanter
With Burns night only a few days away I thought I would share my favourite Burns work; Tam O’ Shanter: When chapmen billies leave the street, And drouthy neibors, neibors meet, As market days are wearing late, An’ folk begin to tak the gate; While we sit bousing at the nappy, And getting fou and […] Read More
Dunaverty Rock, Southend, Kintyre.
Site of Dunaverty Castle and the infamous massacre in 1647. For more info on the massacre click HERE Southend Community Website. Read More
A relic from another time…
… the remains of a carriage from the Campbeltown & Machrihanish Light Railway Company. Read More
Arrival at the White Hart Hotel, Campbeltown
Arrival at the White Hart Hotel, Campbeltown, Kintyre, Argyll, Scotland. Filmed in 1914 – Soldiers from the 7th & 9th Battalion’s Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders bound for camp and arriving at Campbeltown, together with their supplies in horse-drawn carts and wagons. The film ends at the Ugadale Arms Hotel, Machrihanish, panning past what is now […] Read More