Thank you my great great great grandfather was Archibald McWilliam

Lovely place at the end of a dreadful road.

Rest and be Thankfull often closed. Then it's the Old Military Road.

Brilliant film. Makes me want to time travel and live there then.

This is possibly the most special movie I have ever seen about the place I call home. Thank you so much

Wow 1956? Scotland is forever and my Great great Grandfather is from Scotland but left and went to live in Jamaica in the late 1800's

My Grandfather..Huge thanks to Jan Nimmo & Machrihanish Online for all their work in all of this. It's a joy to find him here. He would be delighted. I remember spending Sunday afternoons, as a wee lassie visiting his best friend in the village of Drumlemble, outside Campbeltown. He wrote countless songs, but this is the one that people favour. It was actually written in 1948.. It's amazing to hear it still. I feel a great pride when I hear it. Thanks everyone.. Xx

brings back fond memories of the BRS storeman archie lamont, a gentle quiet man, thats him on the left of shot @ 03.11, a war hero and escapee from a prisoner of war camp, i remember as a small boy of about 6 or 7 in the late 60's when as usual him and his wife visited our home after the bells and he took suddenly ill with a heart attack, he survived to live another couple of decades, they lived next door to my paternal grandmother on davaar ave and his children, iain, archie jnr (probably the most handsome man you'd ever meet) and kate (again, a very beautiful girl/woman) all used to babysit my siblings and me, i can still remember archie senior's pipe smoke and his wife's gossiping, as kids we used to record TOTP on a little tape recorder and every single one was unlistenable as polly used to visit our mother every thursday evening when TOTP was on BBC1. she worked in woolworths for many years

howye the now? naw bad, yersel? think my father would have been down the pit at this time as he didn't buy his boats, quiet waters and evening star until 1962 when i was born.

Swinging 6!👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

08:46 He pronounces Gigha as 'Gigg-ha' instead of 'Gee-ah', has the pronunciation changed since the 1950s then?

All very well dressed

I remember the days in the 70s and 80s when the harbour was brimming with boats. Wonderful place.

How I loved Carradale in the 1960s

Good to see the Rest open then !!!

So proud 👏 to have been born in campbletown x

Wonderful stuff.

Private Fraser from Dad's Army narrating?

First of all thanks to Machrihanish Online for posting this film and the info that goes with it, but the name is a bit wrong, so I have a correction of the name and some other information to add as he was my Great Grandfather. Here is an update to the original text from Machrihanish Online The man that commissioned this film to be taken was my Great Grandfather, Samuel John Rendell Burnette, (not Randall Burnette, as that is his last names, and not spelt right), but he was the owner of the De Luxe Cinemas in Rothesay and Glasgow, and member of the Board of the Picture House, Campbeltown. (as stated by Machrihanish Online) Samuel John Rendell Burnette is also in the film in a few frames like when he is parting the people so the camera can get a good shot of the marching soldiers, he is wearing the long white coat. He was also a magician "The Campbeltown Film," as it is known locally. It's proper title is "Arrival at the White Hart," which is held by the moving image archive in Scotland. This is the film that Samuel John Rendell Burnette commissioned and showed in the cinema in Campbeltown. His plan was to film his journey from Glasgow to Campbeltown, along the scenic route and on arrival in Campbeltown he wanted to film the arrival of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlander Regiments disembarking from the Clyde Steamer. When Samuel had it filmed, nobody realized that 17 days later, the UK would have declared war on Germany on the August 4, 1914 and a lot of the young soldiers seen in the film would not return from war. Unfortunately, the film was damaged and only a few minutes of it survive. It is a great look back in history and most people had never seen a movie camera before, and that is easy to tell by the reactions of the crowd, some dont know what to make of it, but the kids soon catch on and then play up for the camera.

Does anyone know what year this is

Great video. Thanks for the ride. Heading there in a month and it was perfect to get the lay of the land... Thanks again.. good driver...

Just lovely. Willie is interviewed at the by Hamish Henderson of the School of Scottish Studies, if I'm not mistaken.

Fantastic.

Thanks for the video, Way back in the sixties I used to travel this road on a daily basis, I now live in New Zealand so great to travel it once more and notice the changes. Music left a bit to be desired - Cheers

Superb video, thanks very much for sharing it :)

This must be fake. Like the Apollo moonlanding. I mean, it's a well known fact that Paul McCartney invented Kintyre in 1977. :-)

Great music :)

A wee drive from Campbeltown, Kintyre, Argyll, Scotland to Tarbert, Argyll, Scotland. Video by Machrihanish Online. www.machrihanish.net Join us on facebook: facebook.com/machrihanishonline #Machrihanish #Scotland #Argyll #Kintyre #Tarbert #Campbeltown

Dalintober Quay in the Wee Toon to the Dhorlin (opposite Davaar Island) Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland. At normal speed, with soundtrack. See www.machrihanish.net/davaar-island for details about Davaar and the in/famous cave painting of Jesus. Video by Machrihanish Online. #Machrihanish #scotland #Argyll #Kintyre