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 tour
of the town's main streets and most recent housing developments, highlights the mix of
industries, traditional and recent, which keep Campbeltown on the map today, the town
particularly 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 Springbank
whiskies and a tour of Campbeltown's Creamery, producing a range of cheeses for
supermarkets across Britain, the video includes a brief tour of Campbeltown's Heritage
Centre, 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 boats
and puffers, which once crowded Campbeltown's harbour and too a static model of the
railway 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 at
Machrihanish, 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 fishing
boat "Crimson Arrow"; John Armour, one of the radio presenter's at Campbeltown's own local
radio 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, who
patiently and painstakingly tutors the area's aspiring young pipers and pipe bands.

Importantly, Freddy talks to George McMillan, an ex-Provost of Campbeltown, about the

changes 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 both
PAL and other formats, from Ardminish Press, Isle of Gigha, Argyll PA41 7AA,
Scotland, their website at http://www.ardpress.co.uk/

OTHER TITLES FROM ARDMINISH PRESS include -

Life with The Coal Tar Dalriada

The Magic of Gigha
In Campbeltown Once More
(Book)
Tales from the Dawn Hunter
The Viking Isle
From The Briny to The
Vanishing Breed (DVD)
Lets Visit Kintyre
Silver From The Sea
Now We See Through A Glass
Darkly
Tarbert Fishing Boats

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 Gourmet
Whispering Children Son of A Gum
Rainbows From Barra to Burma
Goodbye to Boots and Oilskins

Pricing and Postage Costs available on request from orders@ardpress.co.uk -

Cheques or Postal Orders, Payable to ARDMINISH PRESS and in Sterling Currency
only, should be sent to The Company’s mailing address and order then quickly
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