Down Memory Lane, April 23 2021
To mark the society’s centenary year, we are taking a look at some of the group’s outings to sites of historical interest in the area.
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Tag: Kintyre Antiquarian and Natural History Society
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Down Memory Lane, April 16 2021
The first issue of the magazine was published in April 1977, under the editorship of Mrs Peggy Hunter, Southend, and it has appeared continuously ever since.
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Down Memory Lane, April 9 2021
The latest edition of the Kintyre Antiquarian and Natural History Society Magazine features an article about the society’s own history in honour of its centenary year
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National recognition for cemetery preservation group
The group aiming to preserve a dilapidated Machrihanish cemetery has been praised by a national body.
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Down memory lane, March 29, 2019
Mr Martin recalled that ‘Scotland’s first world boxing champion’ Lynch fought an 1936 exhibition match in Campbeltown.
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Cupolas come to Campbeltown
‘This involved the death of millions of Kulaks (rich peasants) but without that campaign it is arguable that Russia could not have fed itself at all during the Second World War.’
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Down Memory Lane, January 18 2018
A Courier ‘From our Files’ tale of an adder bite prompted Sandy McMillan to write: ‘An Encounter with an Adder.’
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Artist appears at Antiquarians
Ronald Togneri’s illustrated talk: ‘Archibald MacKinnon and the Cave Painting,’ is at the Ardshiel Hotel, Campbeltown, on Wednesday December 5, 2018, at 7.30 p.m.
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Walk with the Courier: High Lossit to Killypole
Hamish Henderson, the founder of the school of Scottish Studies, was wandering about the hills here at the start of the war, taking notes in German and arrested as a spy.
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Preservation society promotes people power
‘I hope you are all feeling a bit more holy after listening to this oration about churches and do feel moved to polish your halos on the way home.’