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Historic maps of Blairmore and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Blairmore maps
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Kirn| Dunoon| Rosneath| Gourock| Shandon| Rhu| Garelochhead| Greenock
Blairmore area books
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Memories of Blairmore
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Argyll memories
From 1940 to 1957
There may be someone who remembers from Strone School, we had some good times in the Second World War, we did not how bad things were in Europe. It was the time we had the RN and the subs in the Holy Loch and the Wrens, they spoiled us with some types of food we could not get in the war. Some of us boys loved when the NAAFI boat came in and we wanted the blood oranges. Sometimes we would go down Strone pier to the shed at the end of the pier and lift off one of panels of the shed and put a stick into the sugar bags and let the suger into a tin can, then we got apples from someone's garden and then we would light a fire and melt the suger and make toffee apples. When the evacuues came we did not like them, they did not speak the way we did. We went to school in the mornings and they went in the... Read more
Strone Youth Hostel
I have fond memories of Strone. My mother was the warden at the SYHA hostel at Strone which was Dunselma on the hill. Strone Primary was my first school. I remember the US floating docks and the protesters who stayed at the hostel. They used to protest on the pier at Sandbank and rowed out to the submarines when they came into the dock. I also remember Strone House. When we went to Glasgow we had to walk down the hill to get the ferry at Blairgowrie as the Strone pier had closed.
Happy Days
I came to live in Ardpeaton Lodge at the age of 2 when my father was transferred from Wales to Coulport. At that time the Lodge was owned by the MOD along with Ardpeaton House which was further up the drive. Two years later the House was converted into 5 flats and we were moved out of the Lodge and moved into one of the ground floor flats. I lived there for several years and went to the local school in Kilcreggan and then on to the Hermitage in Helensburgh when I was 12. They were the happiest years of my life. All the neighbours were like relatives
MAEE Rhu 1939-45
My late father Bob Bird served with Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment Rhu
during World War 11. MAEE was a secret wing of the RAF that that tested flying boats and seaplanes. It lost several crew but their sacrifice is not widely known.
I hope to place a Poppy Cross on Rhu war memorial in their memory.
Does anyone have stories of the MAEE for me as I am writing a book on the subject. I can be contacted on 0151 639 6851
Summer Holidays
My Grandfather was the doctor for Kilcreggan from 1953 -1970.He and my grandmother lived at Kenilworth which was on the Shore Road.He was called John Campbell Miller.Our family holidayed there every year during the 1960s. We used to arrive on the morning boat from Gourock.We spent 2 weeks there every Easter and 1 month there every Summer.TutTut was a favourite of ours.Another favourite
was the Italian Icecream shop called Rossi's
Rhu
My Grandfather, Andrew Johnston, lived in Kilbride Cottage, Rhu (next to the manse on the corner) and every school holidays my mum Janet Kempton (nee Johnston) brought us up to Rhu for the holidays. Grandpa died when I was about 8, he was about 94, so that would be around 1955. We emigrated to Australia in 1962. I have fond memories of the village green, playing in the loch, throwing stones into the water, and buying soda breads/farls from the bakery. At the back of the property there was a huge veggie garden, wash house and stable for Grandpas horse 'dobie'. I still have his 'bit' for his mouth. There was also another family living in the upper floor of the stable and I remember an older girl named Jeanie. I am now living in Australia with my brother and sister and Mum in Queensland and me in Victoria. Dad has since passed away.
My Scottish Home
I'm a navy brat ... I lived on the promenade in 1963 and used to watch the Polaris submarines come down the river and go into Holy Lock and tie up to the submarine tenders and dry docks for repairs. I was a young boy at the time and attended Scottish public schools. I loved this country, this town and this magical place of submarines, ships and ferrys, lighthouses and fog horns. There used to be a dinghy rental business and I worked there awhile, in the summer. I enjoyed myself immeasurably. I had my first girlfriend here, a beautiful blonde-headed Scottish lass. I could forget my name easier than I could forget the memories made here, not that I want to forget either. May God and good friends be wherever you go, because I know they are in Kirn. Talk to you later!
