Jim Henderson of Lamlash continues his story of how the Clearances caused so many Arran residents to emigrate to the Megantic County of Canada. Here, he gives some of the background to what happened...
Uniquely in the US, the State of North Dakota owns its own bank. Quakers introduced public banking in their original colony of Pennsylvania, but North Dakota is the only state to have preserved the id...
Jim Henderson sends us some notes written by Douglas Fulton, then the Lamlash minister, in April 1965. At the time, Harold Wilson’s Labour Government was taking over from Alex Douglas-Hume and the...
Katy Clark, MP for North Ayrshire and Arran, has condemned the Government’s failure to take action to prevent excessive bonuses from occurring in the banking sector. The Government admitted in the p...
Do we mean, any Arran day in February? No, this is Corrie Film Club trying something new. We are inviting everyone who loves film and has the stamina to come and join us for the whole day, or part...
An exhibition of Margot Sandeman’s paintings is to be held at The Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie, Glasgow. It is open from Tuesday, January 18th to Wednesday, March 16th, and also features the work o...
from Douglas Hamilton The Lochranza Choir again performed in Whiting Bay Church in November, with our guests Martainn Skene on cello and Kerrie Calder on flute, both of whom also made valuable contrib...
When Djordje Gajic – pronounced Georgie Guy-ic – played in Brodick Hall last year, heavy snow meant that the audience was small. A lot of people regretted that they had missed it, specially when t...
Welcome to the new Voice for Arran in its monthly ‘magazine’ form. We’re thrilled by the number of people who have sent us articles and photographs, and this wealth of contributions has added up...
When the new High School was built, Jim Tulips, then NAC’s PPP liaison officer, asserted that it would feature a ‘Flagship Community Theatre’ for use by Arran people. That was very w...