PICTURES BY CRAIG JUMP OF UTR PHOTOGRAPHY
Category: Argyll and Bute
DINO’S AND THOSE HAPPY JUKE BOX TIMES
The boys gathered in their own wee booths while the girls one was always nearer the jukebox. For the lads this turned out to be the best way of coming up with the most unoriginal chat up line ever, “ what song would you like me to play for you ?” So it was either a lot of giggling and a knock back or she would join you for selection at the jukebox and that was a good sign, softer romantic songs were chosen. The old time favourite from the boys was : Je t’aime from Jane Birkin. In contrast after an embarrassing refusal it was pressing B16 for The Animals – We’ve got to get out of this place or the Rolling Stones C23 – Can’t get no Satisfaction.
ROYAL BALLOCH
Some of you will have walked past it many times – a mound of earth surrounded by a shallow ditch, in Balloch Park just where Loch Lomond flows into the River Leven. The mound is all that’s left of the ancient Balloch Castle and the ditch was once a deep moat. From the 1200s Balloch Castle was the seat of the Earls of Lennox (later the Darnley Stewarts). Matthew, 4th Earl of Lennox, had a son – Henry Lord Darnley. Henry married Mary Queen of Scots and they had a son who became King James Sixth of Scots and First of the United Kingdom.
HAPPY ST ANDREW’S DAY TO ALL
Toorie tip to Marie Green
HIGH RISKS OF WATER CONTAMINATION WERE REPORTED
Ms Darroch told BBC Scotland on Thursday night: “I’m shocked with the information that came out today. The fact that they’ve known since since 2015, it’s absolutely disgusting that nothing was done about it and no action was taken and the hospital was still opened. I believe Milly would still be here if action had been taken. I’ve no doubt in my mind that Milly would be sitting beside me, right now.
DISTILLERY WORKERS’ FAVOURITE BANK TO CLOSE
The branch was for many years the most popular place to bank money for the hundreds of local men and women employed in the now closed Hiram Walker distillery in Castle Street. It is straight across the road from the imposing, grey sandstone public house which was once the whisky company’s offices, which included the cashier’s department where Dumbarton man Dick Lynch was in charge. Earlier this week, the bank announced that 82 branches across the UK would close as part of a plan to make £100m of cost cuts by 2022. The Dumbarton branch will close in July next year. There is no announcement in relation to its autobank or whether that will also go when the branch closes.