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WHAT'S ONLINE HERE A to Z GUIDE to UPLOADS and RELATED WEBSITE LINKS LEARN HOW TO CONVERT TEXTS - TO - SPEECH and MP3 FILES FOR THE BLIND, THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED and DISADVANTAGED The general aim of these documents is to provide others - teachers, family and local history researchers and anyone with an interest in the history of Kintyre and its immediate surrounding area - with as much material as possible for them to understand what Kintyre was and is about. It is inevitable in such an exercise that, from time to time, interests stray outside Kintyre itself, not least into the waters surrounding it and, that there is a 'historic relationship' with Kilberry and Knapdale, on the far side of West Loch Tarbert, the documents here, generally, rather than referring simply to Kintyre, consider the whole area 'south of The Crinan Canal'. Tarbert itself, at the northern end of Kintyre, derives its name from the Gaelic compounding of tarruing, to draw and bata, meaning boat. The variations of spelling are as numerous as the writers are ingenious ! In the oldest records it is Tarbart, then Tarbard. Later it is spelt discriminately as Terbert, Tarbert, Tarbett, Tarbet, Tarbatt, Tarbat, Torban, Tarbot, Tarbitt, Terbat, Turbet and too Terbart. Take your pick or phone a friend ? There was, though no date of its foundation can be traced, a shire of Tarbert which included Kintyre, Gigha, Islay, Jura, Scarba, Colonsay and Mull plus the various and adjacent smaller islands. Rathlin Island also then reckoned to be within The Sheriffdom of Tarbert. On February 26, 1481, Knapdale too was made part of Tarbert-shire. Previously it was part of Perth-shire ! Eventually, on Friday, June 28, 1633, Tarbert-shire was amalgamated with the shire of Argyll - The last Tarbertshire M.P., elected in September 1628, was Sir Lachlan M’Lean of Morvern. Tarbert’s famous fair appears in records at least as early as 1705. The first documents in these pages were uploaded at the end of January 2008 and in the first eight months of these various papers, lists and indexes going online, nearly 80,000 "hits" were recorded on the document archives here and on various 'sub-listings' on pdfcoke.com and, though there are no 'hit-counters' on the other related websites linked here, a 'proportionately similar number' of people may too have accessed their pages. 1

1776 - Taylor and Skinner - Road Atlas of Scotland Scotland's very first road atlas, the original 1776 plates, first published in the year of The American Revolution and coloured up and published, as here in 1792, the year of The French Revolution.

1776 - Taylor and Skinner - Road Map of Kintyre Road The original, uncoloured, strip map of the road between Lochgilphead and Campbeltown, the map drawn 'Chinese style' with Campbeltown at the top and notes about the old Kintyre Mail Routes and Droving Routes added.

1798 - Kintyre Invasion Alert In October 1798, some French ships, sent to support an Irish uprising, came close inshore to Kintyre, the crew of one ship landing to kill a few sheep for fresh meat - In a state of great alarm, a rider was despatched to Inveraray to bring troops to defend Kintyre from 'invasion'.

1915 - The Campbeltown Argylls in Gallipoli Well-written account of the action and inaction in Gallipoli, its seeming likeness compared here to Kintyre.

1947 - List of Campbeltown Fishing Boats An intriguing look at the local fishing fleet after WWII, the boats' owners, tonnages and rigs - sail, motor and auxilary - all listed.

1947 - List of Tarbert Fishing Boats An intriguing look at the local fishing fleet after WWII, the boats' owners, tonnages and rigs - sail, motor and auxilary - all listed

1955 - Sale of The 10th Duke of Argyll's Estates An interesting list of the properties and sale prices.

1961 - Automobile Association Scottish Ferry Guide The days before drive-through ferries and quick turnarounds - Service frequencies and fares.

2006 Whisky Menu from Bellochantuy's Hunting Lodge Hotel Bellochantuy's Hunting Lodge Hotel was awarded the prestigious 'Whisky Bar of The Year' title in 2006, the, near 20page long, list of whiskies should be of interest to anyone curious about Scotland's liquors in all their varieties.

Across The Sea to Ireland Two ferry boats operated, one from Cushendun, the other from Dunaverty, operating under a lease from The Duke of Argyll.

Andrew McQueen's Clyde Steamer Photographs McQueen's two 'Clyde Steamer' books being too big to load directly here and consequently uploaded (links below) as 'slide-shows' on Photobucket - The books' 70+ photographs, with captions, extracted here. 2

Ardrishaig - WWI - Roll of Honour - Rev. Kenneth McLean Forgotten Heroes - Probably one of the few surviving copies of McLean's list.

Ardrishaig and Loch Fyne At War A companion volume to the massive "Kintyre At War 1939 - 1945" record - Here one will find the story of Ardrishaig's HMS "Seahawk" training base for motor launch and gunboat crews, a note about Dickie's Tarbert Boatyard and too the stories of the WWII Ardrishaig steamer services and the training of the "Heroes of Telemark" on the opposite shore of Loch Fyne.

Ardrishaig Shops of The Past Extracted from Forsyth Hamilton's "Kipper House Tales", this list is essentially a companion to that which follows for Tarbert's Old Shops and to Slater's 1911 Directory for Kintyre and Argyleshire Notes

Ardrishaig's Glendarroch Distillery Sometimes referred to as the 'Glenfyne Distillery', those who walk The Crinan Canal's 'West Bank' will remember to pass the old distillery's site with frequent glances over their shoulders, on the lookout for the ghostly 'monk' who supposedly haunts the area.

Argyll and Bute Council Archives - Updated to June 26, 2006 This is a 'composite' list of the collections supposedly held in Argyll and Bute Council's archives, the list assembled after reconciling the various items noted online in The National Archives listings.

Argyll and Bute Parishes Map - Groome's 1886 A geographical map of Argyll and Bute, the parishes numbered and their borders drawn as in 1886.

Bagpipes - Ultimate Piping Guide - Starting Off A useful starting point for those who know nothing about 'how they work' !

Bellochantuy's Seaweed Factory Built in 1934 and employing some 45 people, Cefoil's seaweed processing factory at Bellochantuy was so successful that officials from the wartime government shut it down and transferred processing to factories at Barcaldine and Girvan !

Blasco de Gavray and La Trinidad's 1543 Steamship Trials 250 years before Henry Bell's COMET steamed the waters of the River Clyde, Blasco de Gavray succeeded in proving the success of steam-powered ships, two accounts of his trials here.

Booms and Blimps At least three airships, SSZ 11, SSZ 12 and SSZ 13, operated over The North Channel. SSZ 12 collided with the flagstaff on Stranraer pier, damaging its ‘car’ and ripping open its envelope open, on July 15, 1918, but was repaired and soon back in service.

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British India Steam Navigation Company - A Short History Of unknown authorship, this history was produced to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Campbeltown-born William Mackinnon's "B.I." shipping line.

The Brownie of Cara The Brownie, to whom everyone should pay homage when stepping ashore, has a somewhat impish and droll sense of humour, some might say a little man of cumbernosity !

Campbeltown - Fishermen - WWII Record of Losses etc. This record escaped inclusion in "Kintyre At War 1939 - 1945"

Campbeltown - Luftwaffe O S Map - WWII The Germans used ordinary Ordnance Survey maps for many purposes, this one surviving the war years.

Campbeltown - Southend - Machrihanish - 1907 Guide Book Published to coincide with the first full operating season of the 'new' Campbeltown to Machrihanish railway's passenger services and full of advertisements.

Campbeltown and Machrihanish Railway The old coal canal, running from the colliery to the Mill Dam and operated with three small barges, had opened in 1794 but had fallen into disuse and was eventually abandoned about 1856. The colliery changed hands in 1875 and the new owners, The Argyll Coal and Canal Company, needed a better way of sending coal to the town and set to build a 2’ 3” narrow gauge railway from the pit at Kilkivan to their coal depot at the east end of Argyll Street in Campbeltown, a distance of about 4¼ miles.

Campbeltown Distilleries - A - Z List - from 1817 onwards Although perhaps little more than 20 distilleries worked at the same time, here are all Campbeltown's 34 distilleries, their proprietors and, in many cases, details of their buildings and equipment.

The Campbeltown Shipbuilding Company Though ships are known to have been built in Campbeltown since around 1700, it was in 1877, when Archibald MacEachern returned to his native town after building up his fortune in Africa, that Campbeltown got its first shipyard able to build big sea-going ships.

Campbeltown Steamers - 2004 An UN-ILLUSTRATED history of the Campbeltown Steamers, their last ships the DAVAAR and the DALRIADA, the company founded in 1826 and the company used as a 'vehicle' to found Caledonian MacBrayne Ltd..

Campbeltown's Quays, Coal and Sailing Ships A short history of the building of Campbeltowns quays and piers, the start of coal mining and The Campbeltown Coal Canal and brief descriptions of the sailing ship rigs commonly found in pre-steamboat days.

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Carradale Antler - 185 - February 2008 Properly now known as "The Antler", the free monthly newsletter online, though here without photographs, it of particular value as it generally contains reports and details of Argyll and Bute Council business which escape inclusion in the area's weekly newspapers.

Carradale Antler - 186 - March 2008 Properly now known as "The Antler", the free monthly newsletter online, though here without photographs, it of particular value as it generally contains reports and details of Argyll and Bute Council business which escape inclusion in the area's weekly newspapers.

Carradale Antler - 187 - April 2008 Properly now known as "The Antler", the free monthly newsletter online, though here without photographs, it of particular value as it generally contains reports and details of Argyll and Bute Council business which escape inclusion in the area's weekly newspapers.

Carradale Antler - 188 - May 2008 Properly now known as "The Antler", the free monthly newsletter online, though here without photographs, it of particular value as it generally contains reports and details of Argyll and Bute Council business which escape inclusion in the area's weekly newspapers.

Carradale Antler - 189 - June 2008 Properly now known as "The Antler", the free monthly newsletter online, though here without photographs, it of particular value as it generally contains reports and details of Argyll and Bute Council business which escape inclusion in the area's weekly newspapers.

Carradale Antler - 190 - July 2008 Properly now known as "The Antler", the free monthly newsletter online, though here without photographs, it of particular value as it generally contains reports and details of Argyll and Bute Council business which escape inclusion in the area's weekly newspapers.

Carradale Antler - 191 - August 2008 Properly now known as "The Antler", the free monthly newsletter online, though here without photographs, it of particular value as it generally contains reports and details of Argyll and Bute Council business which escape inclusion in the area's weekly newspapers.

Carradale Antler - 192 - September 2008 Properly now known as "The Antler", the free monthly newsletter online, though here without photographs, it of particular value as it generally contains reports and details of Argyll and Bute Council business which escape inclusion in the area's weekly newspapers.

Carradale Antler - Duncan Ritchie - Funeral Tribute The interesting life of one of Carradale's 'worthies', a nice fellow known by many here and abroad.

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Chleit - Church History Properly the history of Killean and Kilchenzie Parish and its churches, that at A'Chleit built, 'almost in parallel', with The Mull of Kintyre Lighthouse.

Chleit and Clachan Church Records - National Archives List of records held in The National Archives of Scotland for the parishes and churches of Killean and Kilchenzie (Chleit) and Kilcalmonell (Clachan)

Church Organ Guides Though the young of Kintyre are focused on brass and pipe band music, few on choral singing and keyboard, this collection of works, including some on 'sol-fah' notation, may one day prove of as much interest in Kintyre as it has proved elsewhere around the musical world outside.

Clachan Church History Ian McDonald's tour of Clachan's Kilcalmonell Church and old graveyard, the church reputedly the oldest continuously used church building in Scotland.

Clyde Passenger Steamer - Capt James Williamson - 1904 The 200th anniversary of the first public sailings of Henry Bell's "Comet" falling to 2012, Williamson's classic history, to the introduction of The World's first commercial passenger turbine steamer, the "King Edward", will be of interest to many.

Clyde Steamer Enthusiast's Guide, A Focusing on the 1950's and 1960's, this work is full of 'little details', from how the boilers and engines work to ship-handling at piers and services and cruises around The Clyde.

Clyde Steamers website Full of facts and stories, links to weather radars and 'near real time' ship position plotters for The Firth of Clyde and The North Channel between Scotland and Ireland.

Clyde Steamer Book Uploads Clyde Steamers At A Glance - John Marshall - 1948 Could you tell the difference between the "Duchess of Montrose" and the Duchess of Hamilton", or tell the difference between the "Waverley" and the "Jeanie Deans" ?

Colour On The Clyde Read all about the old Clyde Steamer companies ships, hull colours, crews and more.

Come Fly With Me The first ever scheduled air services in Scotland were to Campbeltown and Islay. Midland and Scottish Air Ferries Ltd. was owned by John Cuthill Sword, son of the Airdrie bakery family and by then general manager of Western S.M.T. buses in Kilmarnock - his house in Ayr, one of a row three built for affluent Ayr bankers, all of whom the story goes, ending up in jail for various reasons, became part of Ayr’s Wellington School. 6

Cours' Hill Cour House, built just a few miles to the north of Carradale in the 1920’s, was the first country house to be designed by the English architect Oliver Hill.

Concertina - Clyde Steamers - Willie Smith Greenock Though the name of Willie Smith will be unfamiliar to most, Willie played the theme tunes for the 1954-film "The Maggie", a tune called 'Hamilton House' and the film score composed by John Addison, who wrote the theme music for "Murder She Wrote" and Willie then brought to life the theme for "The Vital Spark" and Para Handy television comedies.

Concertina - Life and Times of - 365-pages Whilst there are many melodeon, piano and button accordion players around Kintyre, the concertina seems to have escaped their interest.

Edwardian Steamer Timetable Booklet One hundred years on, despite so-called 'integrated' public transport systems, it is often forgotten that The Clyde's steamer services offered speedy links to far flung places - Here is a pre-WWI 'composite timetable' of all the services that were operated by the railway company steamers.

Fessenden website In November 1906, Fessenden's engineers discovered that they could talk to each other across the full breadth of The Atlatic Ocean, a month later, a guy rope on the 420-foot radio mast at Machrihanish gave way and the mast collapsed - This website was set up to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Fessenden's many achievements and, if you wonder who invented electrical insulating tape, 'walkie-talkie' radios, tracer bullets and submarine ASDIC detection equipment and more, then look no further.

Farmers Rules With the coming of the railways, came, often complex, fares and freight tables and rules ! Even if it is easy to count cattle and sheep ‘by the head’, farmers and butchers had to value animals more precisely. Some railway stations introduced weigh-bridges, but why not stick to an old fashioned measuring tape like the butchers.

Flora Macdonald, Largie and The Island of Cara A cousin of the Macdonalds of Largie Estate, at Tayinloan, Flora Macdonald's brother, Ronald, was killed in a shooting accident on the nearby island of Cara during Flora's stay at Largie.

Glencreggan - Volume 1 Cuthbert Bede's account of his visit to Kintyre in 1859.

Glencreggan - Volume 2 Cuthbert Bede's account of his visit to Kintyre in 1859.

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Going Back on Life - Norman Newton A collection of Campbeltonians' World War II memories, edited by Norman Newton and published in 1986 by Strthclyde Regional Council - Too big to load directly here and consequently the link here for the uploaded file

on Photobucket, where the book can be viewed page-by-page or as a 'slide-show'.

Greenock Academy website Though focusing on Greenock Academy in particular, this is really an insight into the world of Scottish secondary schools in the 1950's and 1960's.

Henry Morton Stanley - John Rowlands A mourner at Campbeltown-born shipping magnate William Mackinnon's funeral in Clachan, Stanley was indeed an adventurer and the history here notes how he had learned much about Scottish missionary-explorer David Livingstone, on a visit to Skelmorlie and Wemyss Bay, in 1867, before being told 'find Livingstone' !

Highland Railway - 1918 - Timetable Post WWI and little has changed in the way people travelled around Scotland, here the services, the coaches, the luggage arrangements and more.

Inveraray Jail - Prisoner Records The entries here have been sorted by 'town' or village or parish, some spellings and names sometimes differing slightly from those in use today and the surnames, in the case of each 'town' or village or parish entry, are then listed in alphabetical order, it thus easier for researchers to gain a quick overview of 'goings ons' in particular areas or even in particular families in these areas !

John Paul Jones and The Privateers On August 24, 1779, John Paul Jones appeared off the Kerry coast with a squadron of six ships and, sailing north, he captured “The Betsy” off Islay.

Keeping Time with Princess Louise The Campbeltown RNLI life-boat “Princess Louise”, which took up the Campbeltown station in 1876, was named after John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquis of Lorne’s wife, Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria - Lorne was friendly with one Sandford Fleming, the man who was instrumental in persuading the adoption of today's World Time Zone System.

Keil No More For many years, William Mackinnon had dreamed of establishing an educational facility for boys with backgrounds similar to his own but, it was not until 1915, twelve years after his own death, that his dream was realised and Keil House, a few miles from The Mull of Kintyre, was purchased to accommodate a school.

King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700 - 1855 The importance of Campbeltown as a 'route centre' did not escape the mind of the authorities and on occasion as many as nine Revenue Cutters operated from the harbour at the same time.

Kintyre - Some Books and Articles A list of useful books books and magazine articles of interest to anyone exploring Kintyre. 8

Kintyre - Cradle of Christianity - Dugald Semple Dugald Semple's 1939-written article about Kintyre's history, descriptive notes about Saddell Abbey.

its place in the spread of Christianity and some

Kintyre - Family History - Researcher Links Nearly 500 people looking for ancestors and family connections.

Kintyre and Knapdale - Samuel Lewis' 1846 Topical Dictionary Learn about geography and settlements.

Kintyre and Knapdale Parishes - Groome's 1896 Gazeteer Parishes described in detail.

Kintyre At War - Contents - Summary A quick look at the contents of . . . . .

Kintyre At War 1939 - 1945 A massive 450-page long chronologically of 'nearly everything' that happened in and around Kintyre, much information about the U-Boats, copies of the German and Japanese surrender documents AND links to 'downloadable' Enigma coding machines.

KINTYRE GRAVEYARDS website links Links to some 33,000 burials 'south of The Crinan Canal'.

Kintyre Magazine - Contents A - Z Twice-yearly magazine published by The Kintyre Antiquarian and Natural History Society

Kintyre Magazine - Contents Pages Only Twice-yearly magazine published by The Kintyre Antiquarian and Natural History Society

Kintyre Magazine - Cover and Contents Twice-yearly magazine published by The Kintyre Antiquarian and Natural History Society

Kintyre Magazine - Web Edition - Contents Ian Forshaw's online series of articles from 'The Kintyre Magazine'.

Kintyre Magazine - Web Edition - Contents A - Z Ian Forshaw's online series of articles from 'The Kintyre Magazine'.

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Kintyre Magazine and Kintyre Web Magazine - Composite Index What's online and what's not.

Kintyre Magazine, Kintyre Web and Kist Magazine - Composite Index What's online and what's not.

Kintyre Marketing Group - Campbeltown and Tarbert Tourist Trails - 1997 This 'leaflet', published to co-incide with the start of the Campbeltown to Ballycastle, Northern Ireland, car ferry service, highlights the buildings of Campbeltown and Tarbert.

Kintyre On Record website As with the listings here, the main purpose being to 'corral' and link together everything that was available and remembered about the area's history and its peoples.

Kintyre Standing Stones - Duncan Colville The majority of these monuments to 'time' were positioned to note the cycles of The Moon, rather than The Sun.

Kintyre Way Guides website An alternative, hopefully more informative, set of guides for those walking 'The Kintyre Way'.

Kintyre's Adder King - Dr Norman Morrison Morrison, a 'local' policeman, who was involved in moves to set up a trade union for policemen in 1919, became an acclaimed international expert on adders and their venoms - He discovered that adders hearts beat 29 times a minute and speculated that adder venom might prove useful in later years as a weapon against cancer.

Kintyre’s Lifeboats The story of Kintyre and Campbeltown's RNLI lifeboats and their rescues.

Kintyre's "West Road" website Though Campbeltown, Carradale, Tarbert and, recently, Southend have their own websites, this website, a pre-cursor to the presentation of what is here, was set up to record the history of Kintyre's "West Road" area, from the north end of Machrihanish Bay to West Loch Tarbert.

Kintyre's "West Road" Buildings Drawings and brief descriptions of the principal buildings and houses on Kintyre's "West Road".

Kintyre's Western and Irish Ferries - 2004 An UN-ILLUSTRATED history of the steamer and ferry services to Tarbert's East Loch and West Loch piers, to Gigha, to Islay etc. and from Campbeltown to Red Bay and Ballycastle in Northern Ireland.

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Kintyre's Best Ever Guide Book Published in 1992 and historically mapping the peninsula, this is the place to start discovering Kintyre.

Kintyre's Church Organs A brief summary of the instruments that are in regular use today and a brief history of some no longer here.

Kintyre’s Roads and Mail Coach Services Previously the roads had been ordered to be at least nine feet wide, now the special ‘Post Roads’ were to be a full twenty feet in width. Where the ground was boggy, the surface was to be covered with a three-foot deep layer of bundles of branches or heather; over this was to be a two-foot later of crushed stones and that topped with an eighteen-inch layer of gravel, all raised in the centre and with ditches on each side.

Kintyre's Wartime Heritage Trails and Air Crash Sites An essential guide for anyone walking The Kintyre Way or interested in the effect of World War II on Kintyre's infrastructure and a valuable reference for anyone researching Kintyre's aircraft crash sites.

Kintyre's 'West Road' School Log Books Though no pupils names are mentioned, these records, dating back to the 1860's, tell us much about the way people lived, the diseases, the weather, the harvests and of course the school holidays.

Kipper House Tales - Forsyth Hamilton - 1986 Though it is all about Ardrishaig, these light-hearted tales make easy reading.

Kist - Contents A - Z Twice-yearly magazine published by The Natural History and Antiquarian Society of Mid-Argyll.

Kist - Contents Pages Only Twice-yearly magazine published by The Natural History and Antiquarian Society of Mid-Argyll.

Kist - Cover and Contents Twice-yearly magazine published by The Natural History and Antiquarian Society of Mid-Argyll.

Kist, Kintyre and Kintyre Web Magazine - Composite Index What's online and what's not.

L 26 and The Air Ambulance On the Sunday morning, many of the inhabitants at church, the town was rocked by a huge explosion at 12.10 p.m., the explosion caused by a leakage of acid from ‘No 1’ battery and a failure to check that important ventilators were clear prior to charging the submarine’s batteries and John Sword’s ‘Midland and Scottish Airways’ was asked to provide its ninth and first ‘multiple’ evacuation air ambulance flight in Scotland.

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Largieside - Rural History - c 1968 Published by 'The Rural', here is the story of 'The Largieside', from Bellochantuy to Tayinloan, pictures here giving a view of villages and village life before the builders moved in.

Largieside - Rural History - c 1968 (unillustrated) An easier donload for those without a broadband internet connection.

Legends of Kintyre - Archibald Munro - 1886 A set of travellers find themselves together for the night at Killocraw Farm, between Bellochantuy and Westport and begin telling stories, who thinks 'poetry' is 'boring' !

Light Work in Machrihanish Around 1899, when enlarging and rebuilding the mansion house at Losset, Captain Macneal decided to put in electric light and too put lights into the Ugadale Arms Hotel which also lay on his property at Machrihanish. The installation work was given to Messrs. Ernest Scott & Mountain, assisted by Messrs. Carrick & Ritchie.

Lights To The West A night-time look round the horizon west of Kintyre.

Lumsden and Son's Steam Boat Companion A very gentle tour by horse-drawn coach and paddle steamer to The West Highlands of Scotland.

MacBrayne - Bus Timetables - 1954 and 1955 The Earth belongs unto the Lord And all that it contains Except the Kyles and the Western Isles And they are all MacBrayne's Those were the days when MacBrayne's still ran a bus service direct from Campbeltown to Glasgow.

MacBrayne - Fleet List and Licences - 1906 - 1972 One of the most unusual route licences was from Minard to Fairlie, a 'relic' from WWII years.

MacBrayne's - Timetable - Summer - 1970 Includes the timetable for the "King George V" cruise from Oban to Staffa and Iona.

MacGrory - Video Tape - Kintyre Photographs - 1890 to 1911 - Index A simple 1-page timeline.

MacGrory - Images of Kintyre - Booklet A photocopy of the booklet which should have, but didn't always, accompany copies of Argyll and Bute Council's Library Service's 2½ hour long video tape of the MacGrory brothers slide collection - A hand-written guide, giving timings in minutes and seconds, has been added to the pages so that images can easily be accessed from the tape -

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Mackinnon of Balinakill A short history of Campbeltown-born shipping magnate William Mackinnon's career and his single-handed efforts to secure British interests in East Africa.

McQueen - Clyde River Steamers of The Last Fifty Years The first of McQueen's two 'Clyde Steamer' books, too big to load directly here and consequently the link here for the uploaded file on Photobucket, where the book can be viewed page-by-page or as a 'slide-show'.

McQueen - Echoes of Old Paddle Wheels The second of McQueen's two 'Clyde Steamer' books, again too big to load directly here and consequently the link here for the uploaded file on Photobucket, where the book can be viwed pape-by-page or viewed as a 'slide-show'.

Minefield Off Kintyre - Courier, April 20, 1940 The Admiralty announced yesterday that mines have been laid across The Firth of Clyde from the Kintyre coast to the Ayrshire coast. The new minefield completely blocks the entrance to The Firth of Clyde and all vessels wishing to enter or leave the Clyde must obtain instructions from British or naval or consular authorities at home or abroad before sailing.

Muasdale's Beasts and Bellochantuy's Fairies The beast seemed invincible but the lad, with a stroke of his sword, swept off its head, only to see the head rise up and re-unite with the beast’s body . . .

Mull of Kintyre Lighthouse and Other Light Reviews The story of the building of the lighthouse at The Mull of Kintyre and some notes on other nearby lighthouses.

On The Buses The history of Kintyre's bus services and their operators, the history of Craig's 'West Coast Motor Service'.

Oor Wee Toun - Campbeltown Grammar School Magazine - 1988 An old Campbeltown Grammar School magazine from 1988, 'cut and pasted' production from the days before computers and advertisements for local shop traders drawn by pupils - Too big to load directly here and

consequently the link here for the uploaded file on Photobucket, where the book can be viewed page-bypage or as a 'slide-show'.

Philip Dundas - Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous Scotland In 1948, Philip Dundas, who farmed at Kildalloig, just outside Campbeltown, succeeded in defeating his own dependency on alcohol and founded the first branches of Alcoholics Anonymous in Scotland.

Phone Directories - Scotland - 1901 Here, on Photobucket files, are ALL Scotland's telephone directories for 1901 - There was only one phone line in Campbeltown at that time, a direct line running from Campbeltown's Shipyard, No "1" and Campbeltown's Post Office, messages then sent to the outside world by telegraph !

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Piano Accordion Guide to Bass Keyboard Layouts and Systems Just as there are many melodeon, piano and button accordion players around Kintyre, there are many different, some nowadays obscure, bass keyboard layouts and systems.

Place Names of Argyll - Hugh Cameron Gillies The first section of Gillies' book deals with Kintyre, a land where a mixture of cultures have led to a mixture of Gaelic and Norse-founded place names - The name of the village of Muasdale, in all too many modern guide books and even sign boards, is often thought to correspond to 'the valley of the monks' BUT, Gillies', as did Maggie M'Kinnon, licensee of Muasdale Inn, asserts that Muasdale = 'The Valley of The Mouse' - In a way they were both right, for the Scandanavians' 'Mosdale' meant, as one might expect, 'The Mossy Valley' AND, the area had to be called something before 'the monks' walked its lands ! Bellochantuy means 'The Fairies' Pass', Putchecan, to the south, means 'The Fairies' Field' and a short walk up the hill to Corputchecan, to the north, visually confirms the meaning of its name, 'The Witches' Caldron' !

Radio Machrihanish In November 1906, he received a letter from Mr Armor, the American operator at Fessenden's Machrihanish radio mast “ At four o’clock this (undated) morning, I was listening for telegraph signals from Brant Rock when, to my astonishment, I heard, instead of dots and dashes, the voice of Mr Stein (the Brant Rock radio mast operator) telling Plymouth (11 miles along the coast from Brant Rock) how to run their dynamo”.

Saddell and Carradale - Church History At one time part of the huge parish of Killean which, in Covenanting times, stretched from Sliddery and Kildonan, in the south end of Arran, across Kintyre, Gigha and Jura, to Colonsay.

Sail Away - 1820 Register of Campbeltown Ships Not just about Campbeltown's ships but too here is noted an inscription on a gravestone which reads "William McGillivray, A British sailor who fought under COCHRAN and NELSON. He died respected and regretted at Dunmore - August 1863".

Sailing Directions - Clyde Cruising Club - 1947 The 'dumbing down' of text-books generally in recent decades has led to the loss of much detail in the study of many areas of interest - The simple thing to remember about all those fancy electronic navigational aids is that water and electricity don't mix and one needs to know everything one can about sailing in coastal waters, especially around Kintyre - Though the 'flashing characteristics' of all the lights and buoys have been edited out, the extract here has had some extra value added in that there are recent notes about tides, currents, eddies and flows which will also help canoeists and surfers better understand the nature of these waters.

Scott Skinner - Guide To Bowing Essential for anyone wanting to understand 'originals' and a good guide for beginners.

Scott Skinner - Scottish Violinist Many a good tune, some long forgotten, in these pages.

Scottish Tourist and Itineraray - 1825 Published the year before Campbeltown's first regular steamer service began. 14

Search for A Sword - The Story of Captain John Fleming RN A 'must read' for fans of 'Hornblower' adventures who too should read - War Under Sail - Fleming, born at Balivain Farm, beside The Westport, joined the merchant navy and, though already a qualified deck officer, only avoided being press-ganged as a seaman into The Royal Navy by "volunteering" ! His exploits earned him large prize money and a 'Sword of Honour' from a greatful Lloyds of London - Retiring 'home' to Campbeltown, Fleming was provost when the town's first, gas fuelled, street lighting system was introduced in 1832.

Ships and Shipping - Handbook - 1903 With 2012 being both the 200th anniversary of Britain's first commercial steamboat, Henry Bell's "Comet" and too the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the "Titanic" and many successful Campbeltown-built cargo ships then steaming the sea lanes, it was appropriate to include this intriguing volume in these lists, one section of the book explaining the significance of all the night light flares and signals which were so, almost studiously, ignored by other ships in the vicinity of the "Titanic" on that fateful night in 1912.

Skelmorlie website Kintyre has several historic connections with Skelmorlie, the Tarbert Macalisters invading the island of Arran in 1600 and then seizing the house and estates of John Montgomery of Skelmorlie and plundering his possessions, including the island of Rathlin, referred to as Rauchry and then, in 1602, Archibald Macalister, the heir of Tarbert, led his men along, with other clans of north Kintyre, on a raid on the Stuarts of Bute, for which act he was denounced as a rebel - In 1605, Archibald and his kinsman, John Macalister, tutor of Loup, were ordered to appear before the Privy Council and fined on surety of pain of being denounced as rebels - Another, Alexander Macalister, along with Angus Og, leader of MacDonalds of Islay were found guilty of treason and after incarceration in prison of Tolbooth in Edinburgh, they were hanged but, such were the changes of fortune that, by 1623, Macalister of Loup was one of the justices of the peace for Argyllshire ! The second Kintyre connection lies in that, in the early to mid-1800's, one John M'Connachie, seemingly a Carradale fisherman, used to smuggle 'sma whisky' from Arran to one Henry Watson, who lived in a cottage at Skelmorlie Castle itself and Watson's son, William, would later turn out to be a friend of the journalist-explorer Henry Morton Stanley, who would seek out missionary explorer David Livingstone in Africa and later Stanley would attend shipping magnate William Mackinnon's funeral at Clachan. The connections continue too in that when the Graham family set about restorations of Skipness Castle and Skipness Chapel, it was their cousin, then in Skelmorlie Castle, who supplied the red sandstone from the castle's quarry, it shipped in a puffer from nearby Meigle's beach to Skipness. A further, more modern link, being that the early Monday morning, 'Death Run', steamer from Campbeltown headed directly from Lochranza to Wemyss Bay to make a faster connection for weekend passengers returning to work in Glasgow.

Skipness - Church History and Parish Record Links A short history of the churches and some interesting links.

Skipness and Loch Fyne Steamers - 2004 An UN-ILLUSTRATED history of the steamer and ferry services to Skipness and Loch Fyne.

Slater's 1911 Directory for Kintyre and Argyleshire Notes A "Who's Who" of traders, land-owners and dignitaries.

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Smuggling In The Highlands Although not mentioning Kintyre, this is a valuable, indeed sympathetic, view of illicit distilling in The Highlands, written by a Sheriff !

Southend Church History A short history of the parish.

Southend Through The Ages by K. Johnston A concise history of Southend written in the 1930's.

St Columba - Life of - Rev Dr John Smith, Campbeltown - 1824 Perhaps yet the 'definitive study' of Columba in Scotland.

Steamboats - Hudsons River - From 1786 The first commercial steamboat service began not in Scotland on The Clyde but in America.

Surfing at Bellochantuy and Machrihanish In an age and an area where there has been great interest in harnessing the power of the wind and ‘air waves’ and now new interest in harnessing the power of the tides to produce electricity, there is no reason why the power of the waves should not too be harnessed by the building of an artificial reef for the profit of surfers and the profit of Kintyre's fragile economy.

Tarbert, Tarbertshire and The Tarbert Canal Tarbert has many spellings and history tells us that there was once a Tarbertshire too - Meaning 'ithmus', the land between Tarbert's East and West Lochs was surveyed by engineer James Watt but discounted as a viable route for a canal to bypass The Mull of Kintyre.

Tarbert Parish Church History A concise history of Tarbert's Church.

Tarbert's Old Shops A wonderful little 'door-by-door' tour of the village's shops and trades.

Time for Tides Here, for the simple reason that many modern almanacs, textbooks and even simple computer software programs are ‘dumbed down’ and omit any simple explanations of how tides operate, it may be useful to understand a little about our local waters around The Clyde, Kintyre and The North Channel.

Time for Weather For the simple reason that many modern almanacs, textbooks and even simple computer software programs are ‘dumbed down’ and omit any simple explanations of how weather systems really operate, not least about Kintyre, it may be useful to say a little about reading weather charts and understanding forecasts and understanding what happens when weather depressions cross Kintyre. 16

Tin Lizzies - How To Drive A Ford T The first motor car appeared in Campbeltown in 1898 and, by 1906, when the Campbeltown to Machrihanish Railway opened to passenger traffic, there were 75 motor-cars registered in the county of Argyll - The Campbeltown to Tarbert mail-coach, said to ‘circumnavigate The World’ once- a- year, gave way to the age of the motor-bus in 1913 when it made its last run on Saturday, August 30, 1913.

Tinkers in Argyll A sympathetic view of a lifestyle now long gone.

U-Boat Grid Map - Great Britain and North Sea - WWII A companion to . . . . .

U-Boat Grid Map - North Atlantic - WWII These grid maps are essential tools for anyone unravelling the movements of U-Boats in WWII.

U-Boat Movements - 1939 to 1945 This HUGE, nearly 2,500-page long, file would have been useful when tracking down the movements and fates of Kintyre's 'own' U-Boats, "U-33" and "U-482" - It is only recently that it has been possible to assemble it into a single document so that researchers can now, very simply, use the Edit/Find facility on their computer toolbar to follow the 'German-supposed' day-by-day movements of any chosen U-Boat throughout the war years.

Valiant Hearts - Carradale - Gloria Siggins - 2006 The individual stories of Carradale's 'Fallen Heroes' and their final resting places.

War Under Sail This is the document to read to better understand the story of Captain John Fleming RN and to understand too something of the background of Hector MacNeill (1746 - 1818) who, although neither born, nor ever resident, in Kintyre, was a grandson of the first Hector MacNeill of Losset and a poet, esteemed in his day, who eventually joined the Navy as a civilian clerk, serving on board the “Victory” from sometime around 1780 onwards with several distinguished Captains and Admirals but seemingly rather old by the time of The Battle of Trafalgar. A number of Kintyre men were at The Battle of Trafalgar, one Charles McGillivray, now buried in the little graveyard of Kiluanish, near Dunmore on the north side of West Loch Tarbert, where the inscription on his gravestone reads "William McGillivray, A British sailor who fought under COCHRAN and NELSON. He died respected and regretted at Dunmore August 1863".

Whisky, Smuggling, The "Prince of Wales" and 'Highland Mary' Beginning with Kintyre's local distilling activities and the illicit stills, attention is turned to the island of Sanda and smuggling, one of the crew members of a Campbeltown-based Revenue cutter fathering Robert Burns' 'Highland Mary'.

William Mackinnon - Hamish Mackinven Hamish Mackinven's 1956-written 'all-inclusive history' of Campbeltown-born shipping magnate William Mackinnon's career and his single-handed efforts to secure British interests in East Africa. 17

Weather Charts - December 1, 1880 to 1949 and from 1948 onwards Though our own daily lives are frequently focused on 'the weather', we often forget the influence of the weather on past events - The links here lead to a complete series of daily Atlantic Weather Charts from December 1880 onwards - As a single weather chart on its own tells you little about the direction the weather has come from, or is going to, a little work will be necessary on the computer to create a 'slideshow' of weather charts to show the just how The Atlantic weather built up towards and just beyond the date of a particular event, be it a shipwreck or a family wedding ! Choose a date, say, a week before the event in question - Use a 'screen capture' program, such as the free copy of Screen Hunter 5.0 (or similar) to capture each day's weather chart in the run up to the date of the event AND for a couple of days after the date of interest too - Next, number these images sequentially, e.g. very simply 01 - 02 - 03 etc. - Then, identically crop out the weather charts using a simple program such as the free copy of IrfanView (and download all its latest 'plug-ins') and then put them all in a 'new' folder (which you could perhaps date 'From . . . To . . . ) and run the sequence of images as a 'slide-show' to let you see how the weather develops - You can find out more about 'the weather' in e.g. Clyde Steamer Enthusiast's Guide, A - Note - If you simply want to print out a copy of your screen use Print Desktop. PDF Documents - Many documents here are in PDF format (some are made up of JPEG 'photo-images' which WON'T convert to text) - PDF to e.g. Microsoft 'Word' convertors are VERY VERY expensive - If you use Microsoft 'Word', you might try the FREE PDF to WORD CONVERTOR. OCTOBER 5, 2008

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