Argyll and Bute

Nestled on the shores of Loch Fyne, some forty miles inland from the Kyles of Bute, East Loch Tarbert is a natural sheltered harbour at the heart of a heritage fishing village. Quoted from the Tarbert Harbour website.

Nestled on the shores of Loch Fyne, some forty miles inland from the Kyles of Bute, East Loch Tarbert is a natural sheltered harbour at the heart of a heritage fishing village. Quoted from the Tarbert Harbour website.

The Anchor Barge is quite simply thee most luxurious accommodation that can be had in the Picturesque village of Tarbert. Quoted from the Loch Fyne Scotland website.

MV Isle of Cumbrae, Eilean Chumraigh in Gaelic, was built and launched in Troon in 1976. She initially took up service on the Largs to Cumbrae Slip route before moving around the west coast first to the Lochaline-Fishnish (Mull) route and then the Colintraive - Rhubodach route service before settling in and becoming the regular summer ferry on the Tarbert - Portavadie route. Quoted from the Calmac website.

The statue of Sir William Mackinnon in Kinloch St, Campbeltown was never at Keil School, Southend as stated in the Buildings of Scotland’s ‘Stirling and Central Scotland’ (Gifford and Walker 2002). It went to Keil School, Dumbarton from Mombasa in Kenya, where it was first erected in 1900. It was removed from Treasury Gardens Mombasa on 19 February 1964 and re-erected at the school in Dumbarton on 5 May 1964. Quoted from the Canmore website.

The cemetery on the Ralston Genealogy website.

The cemetery on the Ralston Genealogy website.

Campbeltown Picture House, designed by Albert V Gardner of Glasgow in 1913 in Glasgow School Art Nouveau style, is a Category A Listed building and one of the earliest surviving purpose-built cinemas in the UK. Quoted from the Campbeltown Picture House website.

Davaar Island or Island Davaar is located at the mouth of Campbeltown Loch off the east coast of Kintyre, in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is a tidal island, linked to the mainland by a natural shingle causeway called the Dhorlin near Campbeltown at low tide. The crossing can be made in around 40 minutes. Quoted from the Wikipedia website.

The cemetery on the Ralston Genealogy website.

Sculpted by Jane Robbins.

The cemetery on the Ralston Genealogy website.

People have lived at the head of this loch since before the Bronze Age and what was once the tiny settlement of the 3rd century became Ceann Loch Cille Chiarain, "the head of the loch of the church of St Chiarain". This became Campbeltown when the 7th Earl of Argyll covenanted to found the Burgh. It became a Royal Burgh in 1700, celebrating its 300th anniversary with the millennium.

The cemetery on the Ralston Genealogy website.

Kilkerran Cemetery, Campbeltown

Inveraray is a town in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is on the western shore of Loch Fyne, near its head, and on the A83 road. It is a former royal burgh, the traditional county town of Argyll, and ancestral home to the Duke of Argyll. Quoted from Wikipedia .

The Vital Spark is a fictional Clyde puffer, created by Scottish writer Neil Munro. As its captain, the redoubtable Para Handy, often says: "the smertest boat in the coastin' tred". Quoted from Wikipedia .

Inveraray is a town in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is on the western shore of Loch Fyne, near its head, and on the A83 road. It is a former royal burgh, the traditional county town of Argyll, and ancestral home to the Duke of Argyll. Quoted from Wikipedia .