Vintage Photographs

Thanks to Iain MacDonald, Morag's son and the grandson of Iain and Chrissy MacLachlan at Kilmory, we now have a Flickr 'Group' site for vintage photographs of West Ardnamurchan. You'll find it here.

We're asking anyone who has photographs of West Ardnamurchan which are pre-1970 to share their pictures by joining the group - it costs nothing - and uploading them to the site. We're also asking you to add information to a photograph - we know very little about some of those that are already on the site. For example, we know that this photograph shows the front of The Ferry Stores, and we think it's taken on a regatta day, but we don't know much else.

Mary Khan at Kilmory has given us access to a wonderful archive of about 30 pictures which we'll be steadily uploading: the Ferry Stores picture is one of them. Some are of groups of people. While she recognises many faces, we'll need help with the rest.

The weather has reverted to a 'normal' Kilchoan winter, with the wind coming round into the southwest last night and building itself up to a full gale by 9pm. The strongest gust, measured near ground level, so it was probably much stronger, reached 66 kph, about 40mph. That I can give the speed so accurately is thanks to a Christmas present, a "remote cup anemometer" which relays readings to a small unit indoors.

By this afternoon we had a brisk breeze and some sunshine, warm enough for some of the small birds to become quite excited. If they think spring has arrived, I fear they may be in for a nasty shock.

JH