Wester Kames Castle Door 1951, Port Bannatyne
Wester Kames Castle Door 1951, Port Bannatyne Ref: P723006
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Port Bannatyne & local memories
Read and share memories of Port Bannatyne and Isle of Bute inspired by Frith photos.
Innellan 1937-1945
I have faint memories of Innellan during the war years. I cannot remember the year exactly, but I was evacuated with my mother during this period. Repeated trips to Dunoon and inevitably Innellan revived some memories. Are the shops that are on the main front the ones that we frequented then? I have memories of a shop window with a small clinker built rowboat that I loved looking at but could not afford. I have tried to remember where I stayed, but am a bit puzzled. I thought that the house we were living in had the back garden to the Clyde. I was playing there and a rock pool I was clearing had a piece of broken glass, which gave me a badly cut finger. I was taken to the doctors and given iodine on the finger, which had me howling. Anybody out there could guide me on this? Jim
Early 1960s to Present
Early 1960s - to present. I have this picture in my house because in the background on the hill are the tenement type flats I remember as a child. This flat saw 5 generations of holidays in the Port. I go back and visit every year and find it sad to see this building almost a ruin.
Old Port Bannatyne
This is a favourite view of photographers taken from McIntyre's Boatyard. In the distance you can see St Bruoc's church which burnt down in 1956. In the foreground is a boat hiring station, one of three in the village. This one did not last into the 50's but the other two did. The next one along was McMillan's and there is another one on the far side of the stone pier run by Harry Stewart and Arthur Robertson well into the late 60's. In this era the bay was a well known visiting point for yacht crews, sadly today this has changed but the advent of a new Marina on the site of McIntyre's Boatyard may change all that.
