Flashback to June of 1982 and a scorching hot day when the temperature hit 85°F. Members of St John’s 141 Recreational Club and the RAF Machrihanish Families Club are seen here taking a well earned rest and drink stop on the Rest and Be Thankful during their three-day bed-push between Campbeltown and Erskine to raise funds for Erskine Hospital and they raised an impressive £3,000. This photograph is courtesy of John Shaw who took part in the bed push and can be seen second from the left, wearing a very fetching handkerchief hat.

Flashback to the year 2000 and the celebrations for the Campbeltown Tercentenary.

The parade featured scenes from the town’s history including this re enactment of evacuees from the Second World War.

This photo was taken in July 1948 and was sent to the Courier by Peter McMillan from Ayrshire. The event, which included top Scottish footballers of the day was organised by the Daily Record and PE teacher John Burgoyne from Campbeltown Grammar School.

Back row: Bobby Hogg (Celtic), George Young (Rangers), Maulise Candlin (Partick Thistle), Gerry Dawson (Rangers). Front row left to right: George McEachton, Duncan Robertson, Bobby Cunningham, Dougie Lang, John Paterson, Charlie McFadyen, Willie Mitchell, Donald McCallum, Peter McMillan, Malcolm Watson and David Robertson.

This week’s photo was taken in the foyer of the White Hart Hotel in December 1987 and shows the committee and various managers of the local Campbeltown and District Football Association with Murdo McLeod, the then Celtic and Scotland player who was the Associations special guest at their annual awards ceremony.

This week’s photograph is of Annabella and Sarah Duncan, taken at Clockkeil Cottages in May 1949. See the letter below from Christine Penny who is seeking to reunite this photograph with either Annabella, Sarah or their families.

Campbeltown, twinned with Venice! A flash back to flash floods, a few summers ago - when Longrow was under water. We’ve seen flooding since then, but nowhere near as bad as this combination of heavy summer rain and high tide.

The Machrihanish Pit Head, complete with train loads of coal ready to be taken to the Campbeltown Harbour, seen here on an old postcard, which is believed to date back to the early 1930s. Very little visible evidence remains above ground of what was once a thriving local coal industry.

Nicola Sturgeon MSP, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, will visit Campbeltown Hospital on Monday to officially open the new casualty department, so we thought that this week’s Down Memory Lane should feature a picture from our files of the last time a plaque was unveiled at the hospital. It happened in 2000 when HRH Duchess of Gloucester visited Campbeltown. Fraser Wylie, then a pupil at Castlehill Primary School helped the Duchess unveil the plaque for the new Bengullion Ward after winning a competition to rename the care for the elderly ward. He is seen here with the Duchess and his parents, Finlay and Margaret. You can also see the Wylie family in this week’s Kintyre Social Scene on page five.

THIS photograph shows the Campbeltown Badminton Team after winning the Argyllshire Trophy in 1984 and was loaned to us by George Stewart of Campbeltown. Left to right: back row: Colin Hambridge, Raymond Stewart, Bobby Miller, Paul Ruthven, Kenneth Stewart. Front: Karen Dillon, Jerry McKinven, Mhari McLean, Alison Miller, Margaret Ruthven.

This wonderfully evocative photograph from the glory days of fishing was taken not in Kintyre, but Whitby on the Yorkshire coast. It came to us captioned ‘Whitby, 1951, Golden Dawn CN119 discharging. See page nine for a celebration of the days of ring net fishing and fishermen.

Angus Martin has contributed this family photograph, which was taken in the early 1920s.

Top left is his cousin Margaret (‘Cissy’) and top right his aunt Isabella (‘Bella’) Martin.

Bottom, left to right: aunt Caroline (‘Carrie’) Martin, grandmother Caroline Martin (nee Stewart), aunt Victoria (‘Tory’) Martin and her husband, Neil McAulay.

He is uncertain who the child is, but given the date of the photo thinks it could be Duncan McAulay, son of Neil and Tory.

In the forecastle of the Florentine II of Carradale. It is Christmas week 1959 and there is a packet of Lyon’s mince pies on the table. Left to right - Donald MacAlister of Grogport, Bill McMillan and the McConnachie brothers Walter, John and James in the bunk. The photograph was taken by a photographer from The Bulletin and is courtesy of Donald MacAlister, Carradale.

An annual inspection of The Campbeltown Sea Cadets, held in the old lifeboat station, Kilkerran Road. It looks like sometime in the early 1960s, can any of our readers help fill in the names for us?

WE WOULD be hard pressed to run a spot the difference competition with these two photographs.

The top one is a photograph of Longrow South which was discovered by A Stewart in Canada andsent to The Courier; it is believed to have been taken some time during the first half of the last century.

The second photograph was taken on Monday morning.

The only difference we can see is that it would be a brave man (or wee dog) that now stopped for a chat in the middle of the road given the amount of traffic in the town centre today.

Members of Clachan and largieside Rural Institutes at Pollock House, Glasgow, on May 29, 1957, where they had been invited by Mrs Anne Maxwell-MacDonald, who is in the centre of the group.

Taken between 1975 and 1977 of the band consisting of police officers and taken in Auchinlee. The Constable Ceilidh band only played on certain occasions and events like in hospitals.

Back row left to right: Bob Middleton, Ann Carson, Alistair McKinnon. Front row: Neil Kennedy and Duncan Russell.

A piece of Campbeltown’s industrial history - a photograph of the platers at Campbeltown Shipyard at Trench Point in 1913. At that time the yard was making vessels as large as 7,000 tons that were not completed at the yard but towed down to Greenock for engine installation and completion. The yard officially closed in 1922 but reopened in 1968 as Campbeltown Shipyard Ltd, building steel fishing vessels.

The gentlemen of Machrihanish Golf Club posed for this photograph in 1884 and if you asked the male members of the club to pose for a similar photograph today you’d be surprised at how many of the surnames would be the same.

This week’s photograph is Campbeltown Rugby Club, sometime in the 1950s. George MacMillan and customers in his newsagent’s shop managed to remember this many names for us. Do you know more? Back row: ? Chirnside, Hamish McKinven, Bob Waters,Alastair McSporran, Archie Black, David McMillan, who went on to become Chief Constable of Northern Constabulary, Archie Simpson, Hugh Newlands or is it one of the Wareham brothers?, Sammy MacLachlan, ? .

FRONT ROW: Willie Mitchell, ?, Mr White, who worked at the TSB Bank, Mr King, a school teacher at CGS, Provost Greenlees, Robert McKechnie ?, Ian Penman, ?.

This wonderful photograph of Whitehouse was featured on a postcard from the start of the 20th century. Back then it cost a half penny to post if you only put the sender’s name and address on and a penny if you wanted to add a personal message as well. Before decimalisation there were 12 pennies in a shilling, which was the equivalent to day’s five pence and there were 20 shillings in a pound.

In the middle of cold, dark winter days here is a lovely summer photograph from days gone by in Kintyre: with Margaret Blue, Sheila McAlister, Vi Cunningham, Jean Grater and Olga Levine.

This photograph dates back to 1960, and features Babette’s Country Dancing group. On the back row, left to right: Margaret Leyden, Sheila Brodie, Jean Muir, Elizabeth McLean, Fiona McKinlay.

Front row, left to right: Catherine McMillan, Dorothy Waggett, Patricia McDougall, Lorna Galbraith, Anne McWhirter, Mary Lafferty and Jessie Muir.

Today, December 21 sees the release of the latest St Trinian’s film based on Ronald Searle’s cartoons about the infamous girls’ school, so we couldn’t resist this photograph from our files of the young ladies of Campbeltown Grammar School just before they took to the hockey pitch. They look like they’d give St Trinian’s a run for their money any day.

It’s pantomime time and here’s a mystery for our readers to solve. Is this a Campbeltown Christmas panto? Or a review? Or even, judging by the age of the photograph, is it a war-time event put on to entertain the hundreds of troops and sailors who passed through Kintyre during the Second World War? This grainy old photograph was found, un-captioned, in a file at The Courier office, so can any of our readers supply us with more information, please.

This photograph was sent to The Courier by Isobel Wilson, Calton Avenue. It shows her father Gibby Brown, leading his son Tommy’s Clydesdale horses of Crubesdale Farm, Muasdale at a ploughing match at Glencreggan Farm in the late 1950s to 60s.

The Bawery Band, 1953 consisting of Dougie Mitchell on bass, Donnie Munro, drums, Tommy McPhee, piano and Danny Murphy, piano and accordion. The photograph was handed in by George McMillan.

Another of Maureen Bell of Torchoillean’s old photographs.is featured this week showing dressmakers at McNairs, taken some time in the 1890s. The only people Maureen can name are Annabella Smith, fourth from the left, and Kate Smith, right.

Margaret Lawson from Glebe Street, Campbeltown, brought this wonderful photograph from the First World War into The Courier Office this week.

THIS photo was handed in by Ian MacGillivray. It was taken in the Argyll Hotel, Campbeltown in 1974 during a waitressing training course. There are only two people that Mr MacGillivray could identify and they were the two girls on the left, Jesse MacGillivray and Mona Scally. Can anyone else help with any more names?

Another picture to celebrate Kintyre’s glory days at the Mod. This time it’s Drumlemble Choir, year unknown, kindly brought in by Rosemarie Colville, Hillside Road, Campbeltown.

Here is another of Sheena Galbraith’s lovely photographs to mark the centenary of Highland Parish Church, Campbeltown. It shows the youth fellowship’s entry in the Kintyre Drama Festival in 1960.

Their entry was Sunday costs five pesos and starred, from the left: Janice McKinven, Sheena McNair, Rev G Stuart Cameron, Annie McLachlan and Annie Watson.

Isabel MacDonald wants everyone to enjoy this superb photograph of Campbeltown Gaelic Choir which was taken in 1964.

Another photograph to mark the centenary of Highland Parish Church. This one was kindly submitted by Margaret Lawson, nee McSporran of Glebe Street, Campbeltown.

You’ll be able to see some of these faces at the Stronvaar Bowling club on Saturday night when the Campbeltown Grammar School pupils who were first years in 1979 hold a reunion.

We asked our readers if they could send us photographs for Down Memory Lane of all our councillors and Margaret Campbell obliged with a photograph of her schooldays with Councillor Rory Colville.

This week’s photograph is from our own files and shows an earlier Mull of Kintyre Music Festival. It’s a flashback to Donna Gabor putting on the style with lots of young line dancers. Were you one of them?

This photograph is of the Park Square boys and was taken 54 years ago on Kinloch Green.

This photo was taken sometime between 1910 and 1915 of the then William Reid’s shop in Southend. The proprerty has been turned into a house which is now the home of Ray Goodman, who found this print along with others in his basement.

This photograph of Campbeltown at the time of the Boer War is one of Maureen Bell of Torchoillean’s archive.

Seeing Double

ANYONE who was passing Campbeltown’s Old Quay on Tuesday evening could have been forgiven for thinking there was something wrong with their eyesight, as they would have seen not one lifeboat, as is usual, but two identical boats together.