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Photos from Mo
Mo Khan of Dippen sends us some great photographs. He explains how they were taken and adds technical details, as follows: Curlews These shots were taken on a bright but very windy…
Words from Douglas Fulton
Jim Henderson sends us some notes written by Douglas Fulton, then the Lamlash minister, in April 1965. At the time, Harold Wilson’s Labour Government was taking over from Alex Douglas-Hume and the…
How to buck the trend – one good American bank
Uniquely in the US, the State of North Dakota owns its own bank. Quakers introduced public banking in their original colony of Pennsylvania, but North Dakota is the only state to have…
From Lamlash to Canada in 1829
Jim Henderson of Lamlash continues his story of how the Clearances caused so many Arran residents to emigrate to the Megantic County of Canada. Here, he gives some of the background to…
Great websites
Same idea – if you have a favourite website, maybe you’d like to share it with other people. So far, we have the following: www.topdocumentaryfilms.com is a great website. It provides a…
Book review
Team Twenty Ten by George Korankye is a fantasy thriller with a radiographer as its hero, ably assisted by his intrepid pharmacist wife. In a scenario where a new form of flu…
Bookshelf
We ask readers to send us a note of any book or books they like a lot. No need for a detailed review – a couple of lines to say what’s good…
Margot Sandeman exhibition in Glasgow
An exhibition of Margot Sandeman’s paintings is to be held at The Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie, Glasgow. It is open from Tuesday, January 18th to Wednesday, March 16th, and also features the…
A Day in the Dark.
Do we mean, any Arran day in February? No, this is Corrie Film Club trying something new. We are inviting everyone who loves film and has the stamina to come and join…
Local MP attacks Government over bankers’ Bonuses
Katy Clark, MP for North Ayrshire and Arran, has condemned the Government’s failure to take action to prevent excessive bonuses from occurring in the banking sector. The Government admitted in the past…
Return visit of astonishing accordion player
When Djordje Gajic – pronounced Georgie Guy-ic – played in Brodick Hall last year, heavy snow meant that the audience was small. A lot of people regretted that they had missed it,…
Choir News
from Douglas Hamilton The Lochranza Choir again performed in Whiting Bay Church in November, with our guests Martainn Skene on cello and Kerrie Calder on flute, both of whom also made valuable…