Cycle for Schools: 19th May, at Rhunahaorine School
Thursday 19th May: Today Somerset Charrington cycled further into Kintyre’s history. Yesterday he was in Clachan – the school whose message he carried to the first school he visited today –...
View ArticleCycle for Schools: 19th May, at Skipness School
19th May at Skipness: When Somerset took his leave of the lively school at Rhunahaorine (above) he wheeled off to Skipness School in the community around Skipness Castle, pictured below, facing the...
View ArticleArgyll and the Isles’ Secrets Collection: Kilmory Knap Chapel
Properly speaking, this is the Chapel of St Mary at Kilmory Knap, in the imaginative care of Historic Scotland.Like many secrets, it is so because it is not quick to get to and you won’t bump into it...
View ArticleArgyll and the Isles’ Secrets Collection: Skipness Castle
Sven the Red, founder of Clan MacSween – standing outside Skipness Castle in the early part of the 13th century – looking over Kilbrannan Sound to the sister castle he had also just built on the other...
View ArticleMartin Briscoe: the Skipness bombing range
A recent article about Skipness got me thinking about the Bombing Range arrow and quadrant tower there. I took a couple of pictures of them some years ago and have been meaning to get back to have a...
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