in campbeltown once more - the dvd video

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IN CAMPBELTOWN ONCE MORE- THE DVD VIDEO -

Released in November 2009, Freddy Gillies' video, as one will see from its 'menu contents'above, gives an interesting view of 'The Wee Toon' in the 21st century and, following a tourof the town's main streets and most recent housing developments, highlights the mix ofindustries, traditional and recent, which keep Campbeltown on the map today, the townparticularly well known today for the piping abilities of its individual pipers and pipe bands.

As well as giving us views and commentaries about The World famous stable of Springbankwhiskies and a tour of Campbeltown's Creamery, producing a range of cheeses forsupermarkets across Britain, the video includes a brief tour of Campbeltown's HeritageCentre, which is housed in the former Lorne Street 'Tartan' Church, displays there covering

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the town's whisky, fishing and coal mining industries and including models of the fishing boatsand puffers, which once crowded Campbeltown's harbour and too a static model of therailway which once connected the town with Machrihanish.

Amongst the most frequent of today's visitors to Campbeltown's quays is the Troon-registered"Red Baroness", carrying timber from Kintyre to Ayrshire and Northern Ireland.

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Another regular being the "European Mariner", transporting windmill towers, manufactured atMachrihanish, to other ports around the coast, closer to Britain and Ireland's new offshore'wind farm' sites.

Interestingly, Freddy Gillies, the video's producer, has interviewed a number of The Wee Toun's "worthies" for posterity, including Davy Martin, skipper of the Campbeltown fishingboat "Crimson Arrow"; John Armour, one of the radio presenter's at Campbeltown's own localradio station, Argyll FM; James M'Lean proprietor of Campbeltown's award-winning Burnside

Bar; Alex McKinven, Campbeltown's local football historian and Pipe-Major Ian McKerral, whopatiently and painstakingly tutors the area's aspiring young pipers and pipe bands.

Importantly, Freddy talks to George McMillan, an ex-Provost of Campbeltown, about thechanges he has seen over the last fifty years.

This video is 'a must' for anyone who has an interest in Campbeltown and, it available in bothPAL and other formats, from Ardminish Press, Isle of Gigha, Argyll PA41 7AA,Scotland, their website athttp://www.ardpress.co.uk/

OTHER TITLES FROM ARDMINISH PRESS include -

Life with The Coal Tar Dalriada

The Magic of Gigha Vanishing Breed (DVD)

In Campbeltown Once More(Book)

Lets Visit Kintyre

Tales from the Dawn Hunter Silver From The Sea

The Viking IsleNow We See Through A GlassDarkly

From The Briny to The Tarbert Fishing Boats

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Whispering Children Son of A Gum

Rainbows From Barra to Burma

Goodbye to Boots and Oilskins

Pricing and Postage Costs available on request from [email protected] -Cheques or Postal Orders, Payable to ARDMINISH PRESS and in Sterling Currencyonly, should be sent to The Companys mailing address and order then quicklydespatched.

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