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The Pied Piper of Tosh’s Park leading duck owners to the river at Waterfoot

Ceri Strang piping out the Ducks

THE 2010 CARRADALE DUCK RACE

TWO QUACKING REPORTS
DUCK REPORT 1: The 14th annual Duck Race was held at Waterfoot,
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Carradale on Saturday 25th September. Once again a large crowd of PENINVER VILLAGE HALL
locals and visitors attended and there were the usual food stalls.
326 ducks entered the River Carra around 2.30pm and prizes were
SUNDAY 24th OCTOBER
handed out to the first eleven duck sponsors. The owner of the winning 2 - 4pm
duck was Mrs C. McLachlan. The best name chosen this year was ‘The Contact either Hilary Lord 552488 or
X Quacktor’ suggested by Ian McRae. Alisdhair Silcock 552794 to book a table at £7 each.
A total of approximately £4,500 was raised for Saddell and Carradale
Parish Church. Many thanks go to all who attended and to the organizers
and volunteers of the day. Grateful thanks also go to all the Race sponsors
who contributed to the prizes. J.S.I.
DUCK REPORT 2: There were games for the kids, face painting by Without your active support, the Hall will have to close.
Elizabeth Vischer and some bagpipe music by Charlotte Semple and her
friend. Then there was the highlight of the day with Ceri Strang piping
everyone down to the river for the release of the ducks. Duncan Semple
scattered the bag of ducks (327? or more) piped down river by Ceri and
watched by our river wardens Wum, Alister, Alec and joined by Duncan.
There was a grand raffle afterwards before announcing the duck
winners. The committee would like to thank everyone for their support
on the day with £4500 being raised. J.D.
Carradale Goat web-site pictures, courtesy of Johnny Durnan.
THE PRIZE WINNERS WERE:
1st Christine McLachlan £150, 2nd K. McCarthy £100, C. & M. Ferguson
- Pony Trekking voucher, M. McPherson - The Glen voucher, Duncan
McKinnon - Wine, Sylvia Irvine - Golf Voucher, Cathy Forbes - CalMac
voucher, James McConnachie - Network voucher, Jas Webb - Ashbank
voucher, Jim Elliot - Camera Club picture, D. Shaw - SeaTours voucher,
Amy Shaw - Aqualibrium voucher, Margaret Oman - ‘Duck Race’ whisky,
Best Named Duck - X Quacktor’ - M. Armour, Booby Prize - No 305 -
A very professional photo of Torrisdale Quay by David Mercer -
‘The Old Bill’ - Ian McRae. Prize winner information from Moira Foreman.
reminiscent of work by the artists John and Paul Nash.
P6 Housing, recent sales, Scottish ‘Hips’,
EUAN MACCORMICK IN THIS ISSUE P7 Netball, golf, rain, school club.

Carradale rees
Ability P1 The Duck Race,
P2 Primary school prize winners.
P8 Seniors Forum, not hanging about.
P9 Landscape capacity and consumables.
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Tree surgery/planting P3 Picture House award, Sharks & whales. P10 & 11 Flora Drummond, the Suffragette
P4 Cancer, weather, barrels and cats. General in Brackley Cemetery.
Thinning and reduction P5 That other Albion, P12 Harvest, wind-farm & a referee,
Dangerous tree removal
Commercial tree felling
Scrub clearance
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TO BE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT
COMMUNITY COUNCIL MINUTES: WIND & SUN
CARRADALE
Dear Geoff, I don't know if your corrections column is now
a regular fixture in the Antler, but the report of the EKCC
PRIMARY
minutes seemed to give us a monopoly of the domestic
renewables news. We are not re-moving our solar panels
SCHOOL
but merely moving them onto a different bit of roof and
though it's certainly windy here I think that perhaps the
proposed wind turbine is destined for Creag Lodge not
PRIZE
Saddell. We have no plans for a turbine here.
David Byford, High Pluck, Saddell.
WINNERS
MARK MURKOWSKI - ITS NOT ME 2009 - 2010
For those readers who watched the TV programme ‘Rogue
Traders’, on Thursday 23rd September, our ocassional
Shielhall correspondent, Mark Murkowski, wishes to make
it clear that he was not the subject of the programme. The
Editor also wishes to point out that if Mark was faced with
the problem of opening a locked door for a neighbour, he
would do it without ruining the lock or the door and would
have it open in a few seconds without charge!
GLORIA - NOT FAZED
Gloria Siggins was singularly un-fazed by seeing the word
‘unphased’ in one of last month’s articles but thought, quite
correctly, that it should be included in this column. But since
neither word appears in the Editor’s 1950 edition of the
Concise Oxford Dictionary, an internet search gave
‘unfazed’ as an informal adjective meaning not disconcerted;
unperturbed. ‘Un-phased’ on the other hand, is a word
meaning ‘un-synchronized’, so the Editor was distinctly
‘un-synchronised’ by his misuse of ‘un-phased’.
Gloria - un point.

SADDELL & CARRADALE GUILD

The first meeting of the 2010/2011 session was held in the
new venue of Carradale village hall committee room. Lauren Brown: Winner of the ‘Carol Charlotte Semple Winner of the ‘Harlow
Anderson Memorial Quaich for Trophy for Citizenship’ (voted for by P7
Members and friends enjoyed a most entertaining
Citizenship’ & Senior Sports Champion. pupils) - & the ‘Matthew McDougall
afternoon with Mrs. Elizabeth Semple talking both about her
Memorial Prize’.
links with the area and also her time as a bed, breakfast and
evening meal hostess at Cattadale farm in Southend.
Glenhead, Torrisdale, where her family had lived for several
generations and where she had happy memories of
childhood visits, was still home to her.
After she married Richard Semple, they started farming
at Catterdale with12 cows and an overdraft, so she set to
work taking in visitors. These paid for improvements each
year to the home. At first there was only one bathroom; at
the end they had four.
Now retired and out of the farm, she looked back on
her busy life catering for guests as very fulfilling, although
being tied to the house, she had missed supporting her
children’s activities, but the visitors appreciated her efforts
and most came back year after year - Elizabeth had some
really amusing stories to tell.
The next meeting of the Guild will be in Carradale
Church on Tuesday the 26th of October at 7.30pm with
Cameron McNair and ‘Hidden Gems of Sacred Music’.
On Monday the 15th of November at 7.30pm Lachie
Paterson will give a slide show in Carradale village hall. M.P. Elliot Gemmill: Junior Sports Champion Shauna Brown ‘Award for Creativity’.

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£70,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund as a result of its successful application
for Development Funding. The Heritage Lottery Fund also awarded the project a
first-round pass for a further £700,000.
Over the past couple of years the Board has been working on plans to conserve
the fragile and precious Picture House building in time for the cinema to celebrate
its Centenary on 26th May 2013. This Centenary Project will enable the building
to face another hundred years in sustainable health both structurally and
financially, and in turn providing an important cultural and social hub within the
community of Campbeltown.
The Picture House is one of the first purpose built cinemas in Scotland. The
design is unique, Glasgow School Art Nouveau with an unusual ‘atmospheric style’
interior. The auditorium remains undivided, still with stalls and balcony. Even on the
international stage The Picture House stands tall amongst other survivors, the oldest
cinema, The Lumiere in Pisa opened just seven years earlier in December 1905.
The Centenary Project will conserve the interior and bring the annex back into
use by joining the two buildings together. The cinema-going experience of the
visiting public will be enhanced with a new kiosk, café bar and the introduction of
digital and 3-D projection. Also within this new space an historical interpretative
exhibition will be created, using the iconic MacGrory Photographic collection which
portrays the social history of Campbeltown and Kintyre during the 1890s and early
1900s. A further small auditorium will be built in the courtyard to provide an
additional screen for the showing of other films and the audio visual history of
Campbeltown and Kintyre over the past centuries. This will provide a further
income stream to enhance the survival of The Picture House and will also open
the doors during the daytime for visitors and locals alike.
Colin McLean, Head of the Heritage Lottery Fund in Scotland, said: “We are
delighted to show our initial support for the restoration of this unique picture house.
It is a treasure in Campbeltown’s heritage and its conservation will bring many
benefits to the town.”
During the next nine months detailed work on architectural plans, sustainable
energy needs, the use of the unique photographs of the MacGrory brothers and
a business plan will be compiled. It is intended that a Round Two application for
further funds will be submitted to the Heritage Lottery Fund during the summer
next year. This will leave just eighteen months for the actual work to be done in
time for the celebration of the Centenary.
The final project has been provisionally costed at £1,740,000, pending the
development work. If success is achieved at Round Two, the HLF will cover 40%
of the costs. It is hoped that other funders like Historic Scotland, LEADER and
HIE will contribute to the project. A fundraising campaign will begin immediately.
A Picture House Centenary Fund account has been opened at the Bank of
Scotland in Campbeltown and donations can also be made through the website
www.weepictures.co.uk. The Board of Directors urges all those interested in the
preservation of this very special building to support this project. Jane Mayo.
Photo courtesy of Martin Hadlington,
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A ‘SHARKING’ EXPERIENCE
OR A ‘WHALE OF A TIME’ IN THE USA
Those of us who are ‘long in the tooth’ will remember an
‘experience’ at Torrisdale in the 1970s when a young basking
shark was caught in a salmon net attached to the rocks below
‘Springwell’.
A crowd gathered to try and help but they were unable to
free it. In a desperate move to help the shark it was towed
out, tail first, into Kilbrannan Sound and hopefully released.
Weeks later there were reports that a ‘sea monster’ had come
ashore just below ‘The Iron Villa,’ what is now ‘Creag Lodge’
at Craig Creamha. Reports were that Ministry officers were
investigating and that samples were taken away for analysis.
During the next few days walkers were either crossing
Torrisdale Water at the bridge or diving down the now
abandoned track above ‘Springwell Cottage’ and making their
way along the shore to where a noticeable smell was found.
Eventually it was identified as a young basking shark –
probably the one towed away tail first which had drowned in
the process.
A similar story has been sent in to the Antler by Peter
Morrison of Oban and had a much happier ending. Also on
the West Coast but this time of the USA, it has an ‘-ahhhhh’
effect which may lighten our mood now that Autumn and
Winter are around the corner.
“This is about a female humpback whale that had become
entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was
weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused
her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards
of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a
line tugging in her mouth. A fisherman spotted her just east
of the Farallon Islands (outside the Golden Gate) and radioed
an environmental group for help. Within a few hours, the
rescue team arrived and determined that she was so bad off,
the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her.
They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually
freed her. When she was free, the divers say she swam in
what seemed like joyous circles. She then came back to each
and every diver, one at a time, and nudged them, pushed
them gently around...she was thanking them. Some said it
was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives.
The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth said her eyes were
following him the whole time, and he will never be the same”.
I will spare readers the inevitable American comments
which follow the article, but the final few words may resonate
with those of a philosophic turn of mind “ May you, and all
those you love, be so blessed and fortunate to be surrounded
by people who will help you get untangled from the things that
are binding you”.
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In July and August this year they all took part in the Skye and the Cuillins
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£1,656 for Marie Curie Cancer Care. L.G.
IN THE VERY FAR NORTH
PARTIALITY CONTINUES TO CLOUD THE ATMOSPHERE
Does the credibility of a weather ‘presenter’ depend solely on being a
nice person with a bubbly personality, or is it down to a vague
understanding of the weather and an ability to annoy those who live in
the ‘very far’ parts of Britain.
All too often there is a direct relationship between the time given to
each area, the number of viewers living there and the distance from the
studio. Fortunately Scottish female weather presenters are able to
divorce themselves from Edinburgh and Glasgow and, apart from
keeping above the clouds with even higher heels, they give a ‘fully-
rounded’ forecast. Male presenters are almost as parochial but have
fewer personal salient points, are endowed with a less extensive
wardrobe, and are therefore seen less frequently.
Another annoyance is the BBC’s decision to continue using the
weather satellite position over the south of France, without adjusting it
for British viewers. It fore-shortens the UK leaving Scotland as a
withered promontory and the Outer Hebrides hidden behind the
presenter’s head; Orkney and Shetland remain as ever as fly-dirts on
the TV screen. Although ITV companies cope with the traditional school
atlas ‘conical projection with two standard parallels’, their Mickey-mouse
icons and droning music induce a sense of nausea out of keeping with
the severe weather warning of ‘sunny interludes’.
Why is this? Is it the side product of a political agenda, or associated
with the ‘north of Watford’ syndrome. Perhaps its time for those at the
cutting edge of the unique British landscape to press for even greater
emphasis on the reference ‘south of the border’ rather than utter the xxx
word ‘England.’ and encourage the use of the ‘very far east of the very
far south of the border’ when referring to a city on the Thames.
A less frustrating answer is to switch off the charming Carol, send
both Sians back to the ‘very far south-western parts of their homeland’,
consult the seaweed, the Brahan Seer (Coinneach Odhar),see if cattle
are up or down or simply go outside and enjoy whatever comes. G.P.
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BARRELLING ALONG
The Tourist group, wonderfully helped by Elizabeth who does all the
hard work, and the Wind-farm Trust who puts up most of the money,
have organised flower barrels around the village for a number of years.
However as the group is pretty well defunct, we feel that it is perhaps
time for a re-think , and that more people should be involved in this
scheme. Or perhaps we should just remove the barrels.
Already various people keep an eye on their nearby barrel over the
summer ( not much watering required this year!) and I suggest that some
of you might be happy to ‘adopt’ a barrel, rather than see them
disappear. All that we do at the moment is plant bulbs in the autumn,
and annuals in the early summer. And that’s it! A bit of weeding, and
watering always helps but isn’t really vital. Or you could plant a
Christmas tree! Or herbs. Or some sunflowers. Or just some old cuttings
from the garden. Just do what you please - it will be your barrel and if
you want to show off and spend a fortune feel free.
I have listed the various ones below, and if any kind souls feel they
would like to take over one of them please give me a ring, or if there are
any other suggestions…otherwise they will slowly be removed.
As you enter the village from the north ( I will keep this one going as I
pass it every morning on my morning cycle.)
As you enter the village from the south - The Glen corner. The Surgery.
Network Centre. Port na Storm. School. Crossroads (2). Abbeyfield.
Hotel. Quay Brae. Shore road junction.
It really would be a pity to see these go; they do give the village a
cheery look in the summer and I just hope that next year we will have
a spectacular, and unique, show. Trish Hurst. 431 683.
KEEPING A LOW PROFILE
BIG CATS IN SCOTLAND
A few years ago there was a ‘spate of sightings’ in Kintyre with reports
from Southend, Peninver, Saddell and on the western Kintyre seaboard.
It now seems that a big cat or cats are still patrolling areas of rural
Scotland with Highland Police advising residents and visitors in the Tain
area to be on their guard The latest news comes from the friend of a
local observer and from the pages of The Sunday Post. An organisation
called ‘Big Cats in Britain’ is coordinating the shots from thirty hidden
cameras maintained by feline enthusiasts. Six of the cameras are in
Argyll and three in Ayrshire. The article contained a fairly diffuse picture
of an animal far larger than a dog, dark in colour with a long tail, taken
in a ‘rural part of Argyll. It is thought that “the cats may be descendants
of animals released into the countryside from private zoos in the 1970s
by owners who didn’t want to comply with new laws on exotic pets”. If
you have seen something larger than an Alsatian with smaller ears,
resembling a panther, puma, or lynx and you are not on your way home
after a very enjoyable evening at the local pub, please report it to the
BCIBs Fife coordinator Bob Wallace on 07936 719909.
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September. Photo Courtesy of Martin Mears.
THAT OTHER ALBION
ANDY STOTHERT, A JOURNALIST ON THE STAFF OF THE
‘MOTORCARAVAN MOTORHOME MONTHLY MAGAZINE,’
AND HIS WIFE, MARION, VISITED KINTYRE IN 2009.
In an earlier issue of ‘MMM’ Chris Mears of Shore Road described the
landscape virtues of other parts of the West of Scotland. Turning the
tables Andrew Stothert, visited Kintyre as part of a round Britain
appraisal. His latest article in the October 2010 issue was on Western
Scotland and included a brief account of his visit to Kintyre. After
attempting to prise the ownership of an Ardnamurchan campsite from
its reluctant owner and commenting favourably on the busy atmosphere
of Oban, he steered his Nu Venture Campers Elise motorcaravan, and
his erstwhile ‘Little Fag Ash Merckx’ wife, towards Kintyre -
VIRGIN TERRITORY
We were now heading (at a dizzying 34mph according to that stupid
gadget in the dash I keep playing with) for the Kintyre peninsula, and I
was getting slightly excited because this would be virgin territory for us.
Kintyre's main claim to fame (besides that annoying but catchy song by
Paul McCartney, and a Chinook helicopter crash) is that if ever a place
in Britain could fairly be described as 'out on a limb', or 'away from it all'
then Kintyre would be that place.
Getting there is a lengthy complicated journey involving either driving
hundreds of miles from Glasgow, or taking two ferry crossings, starting at
Ardrossan, in Ayrshire, and getting there across the Isle of Arran.
Consequently there are next to no tourists on Kintyre, so also,
consequently, few midges, who (as we all know) only feed on English meat.
My good lady, Attila, has the remarkable talent of being able to strike
up a conversation with the natives wherever we land, and so it was in the
Co-op in Campbeltown, where the lady on the checkout gave us a potted
history of the town. This while I packed two bags of shopping, and
happened to remark that Campbeltown was looking a bit worn and weary.
She said that at one time the fishing fleet here consisted of over 400
Trawlers (but a book I have in front of me says 600), and to keep all
those fishermen happy there were as many as 34 distilleries in operation
at one time, twelve haberdasheries, six undertakers, 4138 pubs, and
fourteen marine supply depots. 'How many brothels?' I muttered under
my breath, and got a swift kick on the ankle from my full-time carer.
The lady in the shop further told us that there were less than ten
fishing boats still based here, just one distillery, and the population is
one third of what it was 50 years ago. Sounds like the perfect blueprint
for everywhere else to me. However, even though everything seems a
bit economically depressed here at the end of Britain's longest cul de
sac, the folk still seem to have that contentedness and tight social fabric
which is usually the stamp of the islands.
All this is irrelevant in way though for us tourists, as Kintyre is a
beautiful place to visit, with the benefit of there being few others to share
it with. Once again, we only got a brief glance of what there is to see
here, with yet more offshore islands calling to our bikes (she claims
mine was hearing a faint chant of 'Lithium Power, Lithium Power' when
a seashell was held to the ear), and we didn't even get to see Achamore
Garden on the small island of Gigha.
This was quite a surprise, as Little FA will usually pause for a good
garden, but such is the power of the football season ticket I suppose.
WOMEN BY POST
Our way down Kintyre peninsula was by the wide fast (but still empty)
coast road, and it was a treat all the way, but it can't hold a candle to
the bumpy steep single track lane which follows the eastern edge of this
slim finger of land. The ideal way of exploring the eastern edge of Kintyre
would again be on the push-iron, and there is a site at cute Carradale
in the exact place it needs to be to pedal this scenic roller coaster of a
road, but alas I was being chivvied onwards.
There are many ways of getting to and from Kintyre, and we opted
for the ferry from Tarbert to Portavadie, then Dunoon (Hunter's Quay)
in order to shorten the journey by several thousand miles. Between the
ferries lay the Benmore Botanic Garden, where a very wet morning
seemed appropriate amongst the tall trees, and then we were back on
familiar ground in Ayrshire.
We had a week to make it back to Leyland, make other plans, or
start proceedings. I wonder how much it costs to send a small woman
from Ardrossan to Leyland by Royal Mail...?
Harvest Moon over Arran on Friday evening 24th September.
“Harvest moon is the full moon nearest the equinox when the sun rises
due east and sets due west. This year the Harvest moon is particularly
spectacular as it coincides with the equinox. - I don't mean to teach
Granny to suck eggs”. Martin Mears.
WELCOMED WITH BELLS
With the Commonwealth Games rivaling football and golf in their ability
to upset television timetables, viewers stuck with four channels may
sometimes turn in desperation to one or other of programmes showing
church members fainting in front of a minister. Although not quite so
camera worthy, a new member of a local church heard church bells ringing
as he accepted the minister’s hand of welcome. Unfortunately this was
not a portent of things to come but simply his wife’s mobile phone had
become active and was giving a fair impression of a well-known ring of
bells, used as an interval signal on ‘steam’ radio many years ago.

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IT PAYS TO BE IN THE KNOW
THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000
‘An Act to make provision for the disclosure of information held by
public authorities or by persons providing services for them, and to
amend the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Public Records Act 1958;
and for connected purposes. Territorial extent: England and Wales;
Scotland; Northern Ireland - by Royal Assent 30 November 2000’.
This important Act, and its successor in Scotland, the Freedom
of Information Act 2002, lays open for inspection a great deal of
information of interest to the general public and widens the scope for
citizens to become more involved in matters which may have an effect
on local democracy. Others may argue that it provides access to
financial affairs which are private and confidential, and encourages
those with mischievous intent to pry on their neighbours affairs.
Whatever your point of view, this is your chance to take a look at
house sales in a part of East Kintyre, or to follow the advice of football
presenters to enthusiasts to ‘look away now’ if they don’t wish to know
the results before a recording is shown.
HOUSE SALES JAN 2002- JUNE 2010
INFORMATION FROM THE WEB-SITE rightmove.co.uk
29 Jun 2010 Glenhead, Torrisdale, Land £25,000
24 Nov 2009 Rose Cottage, Lag Kilmichael, Carradale, £215,000
28 Apr 2009 Grogport Cottage, Carradale, £75,000
19 Feb 2009 White Gables, Carradale, £120,000
12 Feb 2009 The Old Primary School, Carradale, £145,000
24 Oct 2008 2 School Park, Carradale, £170,000
30 July 2008 Auchnasavil, Carradale, £350,000
13 May 2008 Plot 1 Dippen Farm, Carradale, £55,000
16 Jan 2008 Thalassa, Carradale, £145,000
08 Nov 2007 Glenhead, Torrisdale, £351,000
01 Nov 2007 Glencroft, Torrisdale, £280,000
12 Sep 2007 Woodside Cottage, Grogport, Carradale, £96,000
16 Aug 2007 Cala-Fionn, Carradale, £145,000
01 Aug 2007 Riverside Cottage, Torrisdale, £275,000
01 Jun 2007 Glenavon, Carradale, £210,000
03 Apr 2007 Riverbank Cottage, Carradale, Land £4,000
07 Feb 2007 Feoran, Waterfoot, Carradale, £43,500
07 Sep 2005 Lag Kilmichael, Carradale, £322,150
04 Apr 2005 1 Old Schoolhouse, Carradale, £47,500
04 Feb 2005 White Gables, Carradale, £110,000
06 Jan 2005 Marchbank House, Moineruadh, Carradale, £185,000
29 Sep 2004 Riverbank Cottage, Carradale, £132,000
31 Aug 2004 The Old Primary School, Carradale, £100,000
08 July 2004 Cala-Fionn, Carradale, £80,000
07 May 2004 3 Waterfoot, Carradale, £55,000
09 Jan 2004 Barrelfield, Carradale, £58,000
08 Jan 2004 Lag Kilmichael, Carradale, £21,000
07 Nov 2003 Lag Kilmichael Cottage, Carradale, £322,150
23 Sep 2003 Carradale, Commercial £50,277
24 Jan 2003 Dippen, Carradale, £5,000
13 Dec 2002 Greenhill, Torrisdale, £125,000
28 Oct 2002 Bridgend Cottage,Carradale, £47,000
27 May 2002 White Gables, Carradale, £50,000
19 Feb 2002 Craigton, Carradale, £72,500
04 Feb 2002 Robin Hood Cottage, Carradale, £80,000
04 Feb 2002 Robin Hood Cottage, Carradale, £1
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ISSUES IN RURAL KINTYRE
SEVENTEEN FOR SALE & RISING
There are now more Carradale houses on ‘the market’ than for a very long
time. Others have recently changed hands and owners have fled or
intending to flee to Campbeltown, to sunnier more densely populated
climes, to areas from where they came or where offspring are based. Where
does this leave the rural areas of Argyll? Unfortunately Kintyre’s population
is diminishing, so perhaps the planning controls outlined on page 9, limiting
new development are appropriate. Certainly there are a number of approved
building sites which remain undeveloped; more will not encourage the
migration of ex-patriots seeking to spend the retirement years among their
lifelong friends, especially when it looks as if they have made their final
journey or are deserting the area in fear of diminishing services.
SCOTTISH ‘HIPS’ REMAIN LARGE
BUT ENGLISH ‘HIPS’ ARE SLIMMED DOWN
With the changes to the Westminster Parliament the burden on some
house sellers has been reduced and - ‘HIPS’ - Housing Information Packs
- have been slimmed down to a ‘bare’ minimum.
Once installed, the coalition of the the Conservatives and Liberal
Democrats took swift action to free English owners of the need to prepare
and pay large sums of money for comprehensive surveys of their
properties. Estate agents in England largely welcomed the news that HIPS
would be scrapped with immediate effect, and praised the Government for
its rapid move. But there were warnings that thousands of people whose
jobs depended on the packs would find themselves out of work. Mike
Ockenden, director general of the Association of Home Information Pack
Providers, said the group was "hugely disappointed that 3,000 jobs will go
and that a further 10,000 employees will be affected as a result of the
suspension of HIPS”. He added “£100m revenue will be lost to the
Treasury in VAT receipts”.
Although the European Union inspired Energy Performance Certificates
are still required in both England and Scotland, a seller south of the border
will pay just £47 for an EPC while in Scotland, where there are no plans
for the withdrawal of HIPS, the cost including an EPC could be more than
£600. Is this not a further case where the Scottish ‘figure’ should show a
little more dietary restraint.
DUCK RACE MASTERCHEF MAGIC
Feverish activity as Gordon Ramsay surges forward, Jamie Oliver relaxes in a
haze of smoke and Nigella Lawson keeps her cool, during the Carradale Duck
Race. Photo courtesy of Mary Page. Inappropriate comment by the Editor.
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HELP NEEDED FOR AN AFTERNOON SCHOOL CLUB
NETBALL Carradale Primary School is hoping to start an after
school club for the pupils. This will probably be 2/3 days
CLUBhas started again on
a week (3.30 – 5pm) and we are hoping to have a sports
session and an arts and crafts session, hence this
request.
Monday nights We were thinking of running the arts and crafts
7.15 - 8.15pm sessions in 2,3 or 4 weekly blocks of one craft. We would
CARRADALE VILLAGE HALL love it if members of the community would care to share
£1.30 any skills they may have in these areas with the pupils.
ALL WELCOME So, do you have a craft skill you would like to share
with the younger members of our community, or a hobby
Call Eleanor on 01583431524 for that would be something that young folk would enjoy
more information learning about?
Come along, its always a good This is also a request for our sports afternoon. You
laugh, and its not just for ladies, would be supported within the after school environment
I've heard that men are good at by parent helpers. We have to ask that this would be
playing with balls too, so you may voluntary as we have no money to spend on such
enjoy coming to netball. luxuries.
Tell everyone you know ....... x If you are interested please contact Eleanor Sloan
(Chair of Carradale Parent Council) 01583 431524 or
CARRADALE GOLF CLUB midsummer.bracken@tiscali.co.uk
A reminder to everyone that the Annual Dinner Dance takes place on Saturday, 6th
November. Tickets, at £23 per person are available from Dr R J Abernethy.
The winners in the monthly draw for September and October are as follows: -
September October
1st - £30 K. Neilson S. Donnelly
2nd - £18 C. Abernethy T. Gray
3rd - £12 J. Paterson B. Parrish
4th - £ 6 J. Allan M. McMurchy J.S.I.
LADIES SECTION
July 29 July Cup/July Shield - July Shield - Winner Laura McGeachy (7) Nett 65
Runner Up - Marlene Walker (13) Nett 62
July Cup Winner - Margaret Campbell (14) Nett 60;
Runner Up Gail McIntosh (B.I.H) (21) Nett 64
August 5 Ladies Greensome - Winners Emma Borthwick, Jeannie Astill Nett 32.6
August 12 Medal /Silver Division Trophy - Silver Division Trophy
Winner Margaret Campbell (14) Nett 71
Medal Winner Jeannie Astill (B.I.H) (34) Nett 71
September 9 Medal/LGU Brooch - Winner Gail McIntosh (21) Nett 70
September 16 S.L.G.A Flag Brooch - Winner Margaret Campbell (14) Nett 76
Matchplay Cup Winner - Margaret Campbell (14) 1 Up
Runner-Up Laura McGeachy (7) M.R. Sheena Ramsay ‘ducking’ low to avoid high flying
SEPTEMBER RAINFALL daughters and from being involved with the improperly
dressed MasterChef competitors next door.
Autumn is well and truly here but September was another month of below average
rainfall. Records reveal eleven dry days, a further nine with just a trace (1mm), seven
days with showers ( of between 2-8mm) and three days with heavier falls of rain (on
the 22nd, 23rd and 29th with 13,17 and 15mm respectively).
The total rainfall for the month was 86mm. This compares with our average for
September which is 156mm. The lowest recorded September rainfall was 66mm in
2002 and the highest, 242mm in 2005.
The year’s total to date stands at 917mm which is the lowest total for the months
Jan-Sept inclusive. So, since our record keeping began in 2001, 2010 is on course
for being the driest year to date. However, this could all change if we have heavy
rainfall in the remaining quarter. M.L.

HARVEST FESTIVAL
The Harvest Festival Service took place in Saddell and Carradale Church on Sunday
10th October at mid-day. There was a retiring collection in lieu of goods for the Vine
Trust (Peru). Those attending the service were advised that £11.00 would pay for a
main meal for 40 children, £23.00 for 100 local anaesthetic injections for dental
patients and £8.00 for fuel for a morning clinic the aboard the ‘Amazon Hope’. Matthew
Ramsay, who has been personally involved with the ‘Amazon Hope’ initiative,
conducted the service.
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SAY CHEESE: The Carradale Camera Club cheese
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David showing signs of the ‘Anno Domini’ effect.
Photos from the ‘Carradale Goat’ web-site.
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SOUTH KINTYRE SENIORS' FORUM
Meeting held on 9 September 2010 in Kinloch Hall Campbeltown
Present: Ailsa Stewart, Jan McAdam, Catherine Mclntyre, John Mclntyre, Val Cannell,
George McMillan, Ian Teesdale, Geoffrey Page, Florence Lamont, Ruth Young, Emily
McDonald, Judith Falconer. Apologies: Margaret Turner, Marjorie Sillies, Jean Millar,
Janet Russell, Mary Margaret Hanna,
AGE SCOTLAND: Chairman George McMillan introduced our speaker Jo Cowan, who
talked to us about the amalgamation of the two former age-related charities Age Concern
and Help the Aged. The new organisation is called Age Scotland (for those aspects of
his work at the site located north of the border) and Ms Cowan is the Development Officer
for North Kintyre in which area Kintyre, bizarrely, is included. She is likely to be our contact
and link person in this new organisation rather than Tara Anderson and Helen Simpson
as hitherto. Age Scotland believes it will be better able to make its voice heard than its
two predecessors, and will seek to work on age-related issues with other like-minded
organisations such as those concerned with human rights. Jo also talked about Age
Scotland's grants policy and the sort of needs the grants were designed to address - for
instance a range of one-off requirements such as booking a venue or supporting a project.
If we were looking to replicate the Help the Aged grant that has funded our activities
since May 2007 she warned us that ground rules now require grants to be used within
a nine-month period of time. She told us there was a help-line and she drew our attention
to the National Assembly held recently in the Scottish Parliament building as an example
of how Age Scotland was aiming to raise general awareness of the wishes and needs
of our age group. The Chairman thanked Jo for her presentation which had generated
a lively discussion.
OTHER ISSUES: The Chairman told us that mid-week subsidised lunch a Hazelburn
had been abruptly withdrawn without consultation and in a -peremptory and uncaring
manner. Secretary to write to Argyll & Bute Council Chief Executive expressing our
concern about how this has been done. Catherine Mclntyre, who attends Kintyre Crime
Prevention Panel, told us that Kintyre Crime Prevention Panel have door limiters
available. If any of our members wish to fit one he or she should contact Catherine. I.T.
NOT HANGING ABOUT FOR CHARITY
ABSEILING FROM THE FINNESTON CRANE: 11/12 SEPTEMBER
“Congratulations to Steve Partridge and Tom Lee (Carradale Firefighters) doing their bit
for the Firefighters Charity, also Catriona and Lee Connelly doing their part for the Erskine
Hospital. Everyone at Erskine is overjoyed with the tremendous support the Dare to Dangle
event received this weekend. Around 160 brave fund-raisers, including Erskine supporter
John Smeaton, put their nerves to the test to overcome the dizzy heights of the Finnieston
Crane and help raise nearly £30,000 for both Erskine and The Fire Fighters Charity”.
“We are also extremely grateful to Tom Lee and Steve Partridge who travelled from
Carradale to take part in the event, and raised a fabulous amount of money, and a large
thank you to everyone in Carradale for supporting them. The vital funds raised at this
event will ensure that the veterans’ charity Erskine can continue to provide the highest
standard of care to veterans, young and old, across Scotland”. Hopefully we will be doing
something bigger and better next year, although there is no way in this world Cartriona
will be taking part next time” Catriona Connelly, Glasgow Fundraiser.
Photo and commentary from the Carradale Goat Web-site, courtesy of Johnny Durnan.
SUFFERING FROM WIND
DENMARK DEVELOPS A PAIN IN ITS FINANCIAL NECK
Denmark, the European leader in harnessing wind for the production of electricity, is turning
its back on land-based wind-farms to those off-shore, and in a related move is commenting
adversely on the cost involved in subsidising wind-farm companies. Dong Energy
acknowledges that there is increasing resistance to new wind-farms and to the financial
burden falling on businesses and homes. France is also introducing new restrictions which
will affect more than a quarter of wind-farms already planned. In Denmark there are 4,000
onshore turbines – two thirds more than Britain in a country a fifth of its size, with electricity
charges often double those levied in Britain.
With the Machrihanish proposals getting a very stormy reception one can only hope
that the Scottish Government soon realises that no matter how much power is generated
by wind or sea currents, other forms of backup, including nuclear, most be provided.
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It is becoming more obvious that planning in Kintyre and other parts
of Argyll and Bute is in a state of disarray.
Over the course of the last twenty years, from the days of Argyll
County Council and District Councils, through the period when
Strathclyde assumed power to the present situation where Argyll
& Bute Council is nominally the planning authority, the background
to decisions to encourage, allow or refuse permission for
developments has been confusing to some planning officers, most
planning applicants and to the general public.
The long running argument over whether to allow developments
on the ‘seaside’ of East Kintyre is but one example of the
perpetually changing view on what is appropriate for a scenic area.
More recently under the review of the Argyll & Bute Landscape
Capacity Study, produced for the Council by Gillespies of Glasgow,
recently approved planning applications at Low Smerby, north-east
of Ardnacross, on the sea-side of the road at Kildonald, South-west
of Bunlarie, Saddell, North of Greenhill and of Torrisdale would
probably have fallen at the first fence. Under the Capacity Study,
developments are now likely to be encouraged around Ardnacross
farm buildings, in the ‘hollows’ at Peninver bridge and Kildonan and
at Bunlarie – where there are existing buildings and new ones are
likely to be partly or fully hidden. Other sites where possible
conglomeration opportunities could arise have been classified as
no-go areas even though in at least one site the log says “additional
units could also be absorbed successfully.”(See update on page
12)
Concerns expressed by applicants adversely affected by the
Capacity Study is that money has already been spent on
archaeological digs on sites with outline permission; others point
out that the development of the area and the need to provide new
business opportunities are being hampered by continuing changing
planning policies. The ‘Red Areas’ on the new Capacity Study maps
– not recommended for development, have an over simplistic logic.
“New development should be kept back from the immediate
road edges and not placed in the very open spaces on the lower
slopes within fields; the proposed contour shown on the ROA for
the limit of development up the slopes between Peninver and
Kildonan is indicated along the 50m contour. This is too high and
there should be no development which goes above the 30m
contour. This would remain consistent with the line of the existing
farmsteads. To build above this line would bring new development
too high up the slopes; this is generally a wide open landscape with
extensive visibility in all directions and is open to views from the
road.”
Planning officers, like social workers, have a difficult enough
job as it is without having to cope with the latest popular and
contradicting moves to safeguard landscape, meet European,
Westminster and Holyrood environmental standards and increase
employment opportunities. While most of us have concerns about
the environment, some continue to press for idealistic changes
which have little to do with sustaining life in Kintyre, while others
committed to a life here are frustrated by the shilly-shallying of
government agencies. Now is the time for the councillors, council
officers and their national superiors to make transparent and
consistent planning judgments in keeping with realistic landscape,
employment and energy needs of a declining population. G.P.
JAAC
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SHOPPING FOR CONSUMABLES
THE TESCO APPLICATION
Argyll & Bute Planning Committee met on Thursday 30th September to
consider the application by Tesco for a larger supermarket store on the site
of the existing creamery. Members of the public were welcomed to the
meeting by Charles Reppke, Head of Governance and Law. The Chairman
of the Planning Committee, Councillor Daniel Kelly then asked Councillors
and officials to introduce themselves to the public.
Amongst those attending the meeting was Tesco’s Corporate Services
Manager, Douglas Wilson, First Milk representative Robert Millar, the
Creamery Manager, Chris Wareham, together with Lisa Dromgoole
representing a number of Campbeltown traders. All those who had sent in
written comments were given an opportunity to make final statements
Richard Kerr began by giving an exhausting analysis of the application,
the irrelevance, in planning terms, to the planning application by First Milk
for a new Creamery at Snipefield, the issue of the Local Plan and its
designated areas, and the distances from the town centre of the existing
Tesco and its proposed replacement. He went on to describe a number of
undertakings given by Tesco for alterations to bus routes, grants for the
improvement of pavements, assistance with an improved entrance to the
Heritage Centre and the payment of £120,000 for other town centre
improvements. He referred to the estimated 60% of need not being met
within the town and quoted both the increasing tendency to travel to other
centres for basic needs or resort to mail order and Internet trading. He
estimated that local consumable traders would face a 5.5% adverse trading
effect. In terms of shopping area the proposed Tesco store would have three
times the area of the present store, four times the area of the Co-op and
encompass 70% of all shopping floor space in the town. The filling station
facility should give a competitive edge to both diesel and petrol prices to
motorists. To ensure that the present Tesco site does not cause trading
problems in the future, any attempt to develop the site by another
consumables trading company would be subverted by agreements between
Tesco and the Council. Other agreements were made over trading hours,
noise, and deliveries.
There had been 18 written objections, one of which was a petition signed
by 71 residents and 194 letters of support. Summarising Mr Kerr was
prepared to admit that although there were aspects of the application which
did not meet the relevant criteria, the guarantees built into the application
gave him grounds to propose that Councillors should consider it
sympathetically and agree to its acceptance.
Support for the application came from dairy farmers, from the Manager
of the Creamery, those involved with non-retail businesses and from
Councillor Semple who, though supporting the application, thought that the
scale of the building was too large for Campbeltown. He went on to compare
the proposals to the disastrous and continuing consequences arising from
a similar over-large extension in Paisley 17 years ago.
The lawyer speaking of behalf of the objectors went into a great deal of
detail where the application appeared to transgress a variety of planning
regulations. She said that business confidence in the town was already
fragile and that the Tesco plans would tend to increase traders concern.
She questioned the validity of the planning application and stated that the
proposed three-fold extension was, inappropriate, over ambitious, and likely
to adversely affect the livelihood of a number of local traders continuing to
stock similar items to those in the Tesco store, and by drawing custom away
from the existing town centre. She received a round of applause - the only
one of the morning.
At 11.30am, after more than two hours of presentations and with a further
hour to go before the lunch break, the Antler reporter left the hall, realising
that the discussion was likely to continue for some hours. Later in the
afternoon the application was approved. Ed.
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FLORA DRUMMOND: THE SUFFRAGETTE GENERAL

Ten years ago Antler readers paid for the erection of a memorial on Flora’s grave in Brackley
Cemetery, and perhaps it is appropriate to remind current readers of her Carradale connec-
tions and to reassess her contribution to the cause of women’s emancipation A letter
received from the late Hamish MacKinven at the time of the appeal contained the following
excerpt from ‘The Women’s Suffrage Movement’ by Elizabeth Crawford, published in 1999.
‘DRUMMOND, FLORA, MRS (1879-1949) nee Gibson Born in Manchester, of Highland
stock, She spent her childhood on the Isle of Arran. After leaving school at Pirnmill, she
continued her education in Glasgow, taking business training courses and attending lec-
tures on economics at the University. She had qualified to work as a post mistress for the
Post Office, but was refused entry because she was too short; this rejection always rankled.
She was married in 1898 and then lived in Manchester, where she and her husband were
among the earliest members of the Independent Labour Party and of the Fabian Society.
Flora Drummond was also a keen member of the local Clarion Club. She recorded in a later
memoir that it was in order to acquire knowledge of the lives of working women, that she
took employment in a mantle-finishing factory and in a baby-linen factory. She later ex-
plained her involvement in the women's suffrage movement by her experience at this time.
She saw that women were paid such low wages that they were forced to engage in
prostitution in order to live. Flora Drummond's husband, an upholsterer, was often out of
work and it seems unlikely that she would have elected to take low-paid work if she could
have been more gainfully employed. It is possible that she is giving a post hoc gloss to her
experience at this time. She recorded that in her spare time she did voluntary social work in
Ancoats and, if so, must then have known Teresa Billington. She was also involved in the
co-operative movement and in the Women's Co-operative Guild. In The Suffragette Move-
ment, Sylvia Pankhurst gave the impression that Flora Drummond joined the Women's
Social and Political Union only as a result of the publicity that followed the arrest of
Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenny at the Free Trade Hall on 13 October 1905.
However, Hannah Mitchell in her autobiography mentioned that Flora Drummond was one
of the speakers with her in the WSPU campaign to Lancashire towns in the summer of 1905
and Teresa Billington-Greig noted in 1960 that she and Flora Drummond went along with
Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney to the Free Trade Hall and witnessed the alterca-
tion that led to their arrests. Teresa Billington and Flora Drummond were in Manchester at
the time; Sylvia Pankhurst was in London. The balance of probability would appear to lie
with Hannah Mitchell and Teresa Billington. Mrs Drummond was working for the Oliver
typewriting office, in Manchester and had already put it at the disposal of the WSPU, which
was now planning to take advantage of the publicity that imprisonment would entail. She
was responsible for producing the hundreds of ensuing circulars and the embryonic WSFU
organised five meetings within three weeks in order to capitalise on its news worthiness.
She devoted all her spare time in the following two years to secretarial and organisational
work for the WSPU. Like the Pankhursts, she left the ILP, considering that it only paid lip-
service to the women's cause.’
‘In early 1906 Flora Drummond left Manchester for London in order to work there with
Annie Kenney. On 9 March she, Irene Fenwick Miller and Annie Kenney led a demonstration
to Downing Street, repeatedly knocking on the door of No. 10. The police were called, but
Campbell-Bannerman desired that no charge should be made. At the end of 1906 Flora
Drummond served her first term of imprisonment in Holloway, having been arrested inside
the House of Commons. By 1908 she was in charge of the office at Clement's Inn and had
also acquired the nickname "General" for riding at the head of WSPU processions dressed
J. H. Hooper in epaulettes and a peaked cap. In June 1908 she manned the megaphone aboard a steam
launch that paraded past the Terrace of the House of Commons, inviting MPs to attend the
B.Sc., B.V.M & S., M.R.C.V.S
WSPU Hyde Park demonstration. In October she was arrested with Christabel and Emme-
line Pankhurst, charged with being involved in the incitement to "rush the House of Com-
VETERINARY mons" as advertised on a WSPU handbill. She was sentenced to three months'
imprisonment but she was discharged after nine days, the prison authorities having discov-
SURGEON ered that she was pregnant. Her son was named Keir after Keir Hardie. In all, Flora
Drummond was imprisoned on nine occasions, and when, later, the hunger strike was
employed as a weapon of retaliation she, while taking part, was never forcibly fed. Like Mrs
is pleased to provide veterinary care for your pets. Pankhurst, she was probably deemed too prominent a personality to be so treated.’
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for an appointment ber 1909 she wrote to Minnie Baldock’s husband that "Joe [Mr Drummond] has gone to
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the organisation of the local WSPU unions throughout the country. Christabel Pankhurst, whose
responsibility these had previously been, was now in Paris.’ D.McNAIR
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Mary Dodge; she lapsed in 1916. In March 1914 she was present at the meeting in the St
Andrew's Hall in Glasgow at which Mrs Pankhurst was re-arrested, spoke in Edinburgh the FREE DELIVERY
following day, and carried on the WSPU campaign, speaking at meetings throughout the country. (MONDAY TO FRIDAY)
She was arrested on several occasions in London while doing so, such meetings still, of course,
being prohibited. Her final arrest was in May 1914.’
‘On the outbreak of the First World War Flora Drummond returned to London from Arran,
where she was recuperating, having been released from prison under the ‘Cat and Mouse’ Act. THE PICTURE HOUSE
She offered her services to the London County Council as a tram driver, but was turned down, Sat 23 October for 6 days at 8.00pm
considered "crazy". She became a star speaker in the WSPU's industrial campaign in South THE OTHER GUYS (12A)
Wales, Clydeside, Leeds and Sheffield. In 1918 she campaigned for Christabel Pankhurst when
she stood in Smethwick as a candidate at the general election. She then founded, with Elsie Sat 30 Oct 2010 for 5 days at 8.00pm
Bowerman, the Women's Guild of Empire, which in the 1920s at the peak of its success had more (Not Monday) DEVIL (15)
than 30 branches and a membership of 40 000. In April 1926 Flora Drummond led the ‘Great
Prosperity March’ of women in London, organised by the WGE to demand an end to the industrial
Mon 1 Nov 2010 for 1 day at 8.00pm
unrest that was about to culminate in the General Strike. In 1927 she spent three months touring THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE (15)
Canada with a group of Guild of Empire delegates. In the 1930s the influence of the WGE Sat 6 Nov 2010 for 6 days at 8.00pm
dwindled although Flora Drummond remained as controller, working, as late as 1945, from THE TOWN (15)
offices in Dover Street, Mayfair. Mrs Juanita Frances, who for a time ran the North Kensington
branch of the WGE, described Mrs Drummond at this time as "extremely confused politically".
She also mentioned, rather apologetically, Mrs Drummond's "working-class accent" and that she
"looked as she spoke" "rather like a charwoman", "rather shabby" and "a little unkempt". Ada
Wright in her will written in 1939 left £100 to Flora Drummond to carry on campaigning, under the
aegis of the WGE, for the welfare of animals.’
‘In 1924 Flora Drummond remarried, this time a cousin, Alan Simpson, an engineer from
Glasgow, who was killed in an air raid in the Second World War. After this second marriage, Flora
retained "Drummond" as her surname for professional purposes. In June 1928 she was a
pallbearer at Mrs Pankhurst's funeral. In 1909 she had been a member of the Writers' Club,
inviting Mr Baldock to meet her there for lunch. In later years she was on the executive committee
of the Lyceum Club and was in the 1930s chairman of the Six Point Group and a member of the
executive committee of Equal Rights International. In 1947 she was a patron of the Suffragette
Museum and Record Room.’
Eventually Flora returned to Arran, revisited her relatives in Carradale and decided to stay.
When her health began to deteriorate she was looked after by the members of the McDougall
family at Duncrannag until she died in 1949.
So if you are visiting Brackley Cemetery look out for the black marble memorial dedicated to
‘The Suffragette General’, look at the grave of someone, who though ‘vertically challenged’ was
looked up to by most women and many men involved in trying to spread universal suffrage.
Thanks go to the following readers who assisted in the erection of her stone: - Mhairi Buchanan,
Una Semple, Hamish Mackinven, Duncan Ritchie, Christine Ritchie and her friends, Mary
McMillan, April Simpson, Mike & Moira Foreman, Alan Hay, Cath Miller, Trish Hurst, The Misses
Mitchell, Lachie Maclean, Muriel Carrier, D. L. McMillan, Brian & Diana Olof, Lily Cregeen, Mary
& Geoffrey Page, The Kintyre Antiquarian & Natural History Society and The Kintyre Music
Cooperative.

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NORTH AND SOUTH
KINTYRE LANDSCAPE
CAPACITY UPDATE
PROPOSED UGADALE AMENDMENT
Minutes Document for Mid Argyll, Kintyre & the
Islands Area Committee, 06/10/2010
RECOMMENDATIONS: That the Council
amends the plan on page 63 of the Landscape
Capacity Study for North and South Kintyre
document to include an ‘orange - area with
potential to accommodate development’ around
Ugadale as shown on the attached Plan.
As a result of an application for planning
permission, it has been noted that there is a
discrepancy between the text and map for Rural
Opportunity Area SK 17 contained within the
LCS at Ugadale. The text states that “Additional
units could also be absorbed successfully in the
area around Ugadale” (page64). However the
area around Ugadale is coloured ‘red - areas
not recommended for development’ on the
associated map (page 63). It is proposed to
address this discrepancy by amending the plan
on page 63 of the Landscape Capacity Study
for North and South Kintyre document to include
an ‘orange - area with potential to accommodate
development’ around Ugadale as shown on the
attached Plan.
CONCLUSION It is proposed to amend the
Landscape Capacity Study for North and South
Kintyre document to include an ‘orange - area
with potential to accommodate development’
around Ugadale.
EAST KINTYRE
COMMUNITY COUNCIL
WIND-FARM TRUST REPORT FOR THE
AUTUMN & SPRING TRANCHES 2009
FROM RECENTLY PUBLISHED ABC
COUNCIL MINUTES
East Kintyre Community Council Wind-farm
Trust has been in the fortunate position to be
able to support local groups to the tune of
£16,328 this year. We have had a busy and
varied year of applications here since our last
AGM with applications from both village halls,
the tourist group, play-park group, the golf club,
the school, Kintyre Way - maintenance and long
distance run and the surgery.
We had our first renewable energy grant
request this year and were delighted to support
the Golf Club with their installation of solar
panels on the new Clubhouse. We have
supported a raft of local projects and projects
from other parts of Kintyre which impact on East
Kintyre inhabitants. These projects include The
Picture House, SEN Parents Support Group,
Saddell Abbey and Campbeltown Traders
Association.
We would like to see more renewable
energy grant requests and would welcome new
and creative use of wind-farm money. East
Kintyre Wind-farm Trust would like to thank
Argyll & Bute Council for their help and
administration of wind-farm funds and are
grateful to the power companies for the much
appreciated community benefit.
East Kintyre Wind-farm Trust received a
total grant income of £19,840 in the financial
year ending 31 March 2010. 12 grants were
made in the Spring tranche and 6 grants were
made in the Autumn tranche.
Attached is a schedule showing the
breakdown of the beneficiaries and this was
attached to the formal accounts when submitted
to Kilmory a few months ago. The total of the
grants was £16,328.75 but a total of £6515 had
not been claimed by the end of the financial
year. £2625 has since been claimed and it is
expected that the balance will be claimed
shortly, otherwise the amounts will be written
back into the current funds.
The very low interest rates available are
having a poor effect on our current reserves.
However the balance in the funds remains
healthy. The purpose of these funds is to extend
the lifetime of the Trust when the current
sources of the money cease.
J. Stuart Irvine, Secretary and Treasurer,
East Kintyre Community Council Wind-farm Trust
(Individal grants were listed in the May and
December 2009 issues of The Antler)
THE 'VALIANT HEARTS'
WALK
On 13th November Charles McMillan and Mark
Charlwood will undertake a sponsored walk
from Skipness War Memorial to Carradale War
Memorial in aid of the Erskine Hospital.
The 15 mile walk along the shore will be
hard going - even hazardous - and since the
state of the tide must be a factor in the planning,
darkness could also be a problem at start or
finish. In case of an emergency help can be
summoned by radio.
The date chosen for the walk is a significant
one. The last major battle of the 1916 Somme
offensive was launched in rain and darkness on
this date and was to see the capture of
Beaumont Hamel, one of the most celebrated
successes in the annals of the Argyll &
Sutherland Highlanders. The assault by the
152nd Brigade of the 51st Highland Division
was led, with the Seaforth Highlanders, by the
8th Argylls who sustained 256 casualties in the
ferocious fighting. A magnificent memorial, with
Gaelic inscription, overlooks the scene of their
attack and is the largest dedicated to a single
battalion on the Western Front.
The Erskine Hospital was founded in 1916
in direct response to the accelerating numbers
of casualties returning from France and
Flanders and has continued to this day to
provide exemplary medical care, respite and
rehabilitation to those wounded in war.
Please help Charles and Mark to help this
worthy cause which is as important today as
ever. There are sponsorship forms at various
locations in the villages and in Campbeltown.
G.S.
CAMPBELTOWN MOTOR COMPANY
Snipefield Industrial Estate, Campbeltown
Telephone 01586 553200
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A FUTURE -
IN THE STARS?
ODE TO A REFEREE
It’s time to start a hobby
When you are old and grey
To clear the brain cells, stretch the mind
The men from SAGA say
‘But what to do?’ is my reposte
There’s nothing I don’t know
I climb up mountains, ride a bike
And win the garden show
The wonders of the Universe
Might just be worth a try
For even you may draw a blank
When peering at the sky
So off I go to search the stars
Binoculars in hand
So much to see, so much to learn
So much to understand
The Moon, the Plough, they all make sense
The Sun, our lighting source
But black holes just defeat me
- I’ll need to do a course
‘Enrol on line’ it gaily says
A challenge for a start
This Module One computing
Is not for faint of heart
I fill the pages one by one
I find my old Degree
I reach the end, the final blow
‘You need a referee’
My teachers all have passed away
My lecturers are dead
‘Not friends and not relations’
So who is there instead?
At least it’s not a football match
I think I’ll just pretend
Find someone wise and worthy
And say he’s not a friend
So who to chose? I rack my brains
And G******* comes to mind
He knows that I can read and write
I know that he’ll be kind
And then I wait - and wait - and wait
The light years tick away.
The e-mail’s come, I’m on the course
I only heard today
THANK YOU .G*******
JOHN MACMILLAN
The Editor is sorry to report that John
MacMillan of Midhurst, Ontario, a regular
contributor during 2009 & 2010, has been ‘out
of commission’ in the past few months but is
recovering well. We send him our best wishes,
thank him for his articles on Torrisdale and look
forward to reading more of his experiences in
Canada when he is feeling better.
THE ANTLER WELCOMES
CONTRIBUTORS, SUBSCRIBERS &
ADVERTISERS
Please contact the Editor at Benbecula, Waterfoot, Carradale,
Campbeltown, Argyll PA28 6QX. Tel: 01583 431281.
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