
The meeting of Argyll and Bute Council’s Planning. Protective Services and Licensing (PPSL) committee on 21st December 2011 Continue reading

The meeting of Argyll and Bute Council’s Planning. Protective Services and Licensing (PPSL) committee on 21st December 2011 Continue reading
The pretty Loch Fyne fishing village of Tarbert, Continue reading

Itchy and his brother Scratchy were, five years ago, a pair of white tailed sea eagle nestlings Continue reading

Here is David Tennant, on location today at Auchindrain in Argyll, the setting for some scenes in his latest film, Continue reading
The remake of The Eagle of the Ninth, based on the 1954 book Continue reading

Have you seen the fabulous Avatar? That imported, steel, high-tech universe, fuelled by violent imperial intent? Continue reading

A retro-feel, hand drawn, 2D animation feature film, The Illusionist, Continue reading
Campbeltown and Kintyre are already seeing the results Continue reading
The film of Rosemary Sutcliff’s novel, Eagle of the Ninth – Continue reading
We said there was a twist to this one. and there was.
It’s the Yacht Cub at Rothesay at New Brunswick in Canada – the other Rothesay. We were struck by how easily it could be here and wanted to find a way of seeing if you felt the same.
You did. We were offered: Kerrera, Tighnabruaich, Colonsay, Tiree, Strachur and some others too impossible to mention.
Unsurprisingly, no one got the right answer.
But Margaret Purdie from Lochgilphead came up witih a series of surprises. She rang up rather than email and just said: ‘Is it Port Bannatyne?’ Anyone who knows Bute knows that Port Bannatyne and Rothesay go cheek by jowl. When we said ‘Sorry, it’s not’, Margaret then demanded: ‘Well, is it Bute?’
Wherever her inspiration was coming from, she was at once the farthest away from and the closest to the answer – and she is the winner.
She will now tell us what she would like to see us feature or whose life story she would like to see us write and publish. We’ll let you know what she chooses – and we’re looking forward to finding out ourselves.

And below, to show you how close the Tighnabruaich answers also were, is a photograph by Phillippa Elliott of boats at their moorings there. Phillippa was also the photographer behind our recent photo-journalism on a contemporary lost township in Argyll – Polphail.

Both photographs are reproduced here with permission, Copyright to the Tighnabruiach photograph (just above) is owned by the photographer, Philippa Elliott.
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