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The way in to Dunoon
You might arrive by the A815 , the main road down through the Cowal peninsula, along the beautiful Loch Eck, with its secret ‘Paper Cave’ that once successfully kept safe the vital documents of Argyll...
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Carnage as Castle House Museum sets up for Cockleshell Heroes exhibition
Dunoon’s Castle House Museum made bizarre viewing on Saturday (16th June) as the body parts of mannequins lay strewn about.Potentially a submariner and two Royal Marines with roles to play, they were...
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Castle House Museum’s launch of Cockleshell Heroes exhibition tomorrow
You could say that the cockleshell heroes launch from Dunoon once again, as they did on that night of 30th November 1942.On Saturday 4th August at 10.30am Dunoon has the opportunity to get up close and...
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Operation Frankton exhibition opens at Dunoon’s Castle House Museum
The Opening Ceremony to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of Operation Frankton (known as the Cockleshell Heroes) was held in brilliant sunshine outside the Castle House Museum, Dunoon on Saturday, 4th...
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Filling in the story of the Glen Kinglas Hermit or ‘Fairy Man’
Reader Sheila Young has sent us this photograph of the hermit’s hut on the old road through Glen Kinglas, a little west of the Dunoon road end. She says that it will have been taken some time between...
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Looking at Dunoon: where next?
We’ve looked at the good, the bad and the downright ugly in Dunoon – and there are plenty of all of them.The question is what the town can do with itself as it stands on the edge of being...
View ArticleReflections on local history with Mairi Paterson at Kilmun
With her father serving with the 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Mairi Paterson’s childhood began at Stirling Castle, where she was born and lived from 1921 to 1922.Mairi was an ‘army...
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