Parksquare/ Parliement Place

[SmithD]

Been hearing that there is supose to be some ceremony for the start of demolition. But not seen anything about town. But then I've maybe not looked hard enough!

Anybody in the know?

[Dunc]

There,s a notice about it in foyer of Argyll Hotel.Cant remember the details but pipe band also involved.

Dunc

[IainJ]

Hi SmithD

I received information on this after the Kintyre Cultural Forum Newsletter went to print. As far as I know it is still correct.

Organisation: Dalintober & Millknowe Tenants & Residents Association.
Name: Farewell to Parliament Place, Broad Street and Park Square Street Party
Date: June 12th
Time: From 2pm to 6pm at Parliament Place/Broad Street/Park Square
Where: Broad Street if dry and TA Hall in Hazelburn if wet.
Featuring: Pipe Band, Primary School Choir, Jamie G Disco other individual performers to be arranged.

Any photographs of the area before the existing buildings were in place and any memories of life in the early days would be welcome.

Contact Cathie Duncan or Steve Byrne

Hope this helps

Iain

[weetoon1]

is it know maybe the 12th of May

[IainJ]

Well spotted weetoon1 it is May 12th

Iain

[Hels]

Anyone go to this?

[jdcarra]

Anyone go to this?

Arrived in the late afternoon to find the show closed slightly early than planned. Took some pics and later had a cup of tea and a yarn with some of the event organizers. Thanks to Cathie D, Steve for some of his pics and info and all the rest who tried to make a day to remember. Other pics and video shots of the school band will be forthcoming.

















Some of the resident names who lived in Parliment Place over the years, including my late namesakes at No.24.

[general jack o'niell]

i was having a discussion with my brother in law and he asked me what the oldest purpose built council houses were? he thought parliament? i don't know but knew that they were built in 1936, one of those useless bits of information my brain had stored from all those cold wet mornings delivering the milk in that part of the town, as i'm often reminded by others on here, that was the good old days, or rather that wasn't, its just that i choose to remember them as such.

i can still remember the name and house number of every home in dalaruin, glenside, parliament, broad st, mill rd, mill st, ladymary row, millers park, millknowe, etc etc and the nice customers and not so nice customers, the grateful ones come xmas and the miserable ones too

[bill]

from all those cold wet mornings delivering the milk in that part of the town,

Gen Jack, you should count your blessings.No doubt by the time you were doing the milk it would have been in cartons or bottles.Years before when I was doing the milk it was in cans,filled from the back of Dan Black's horse n cart.You would then put about 12 cans on the handlebar of your bike,and hope the bike never toppled when it was leaning against a lampost etc.

Sorry for going off the thread but Gen Jack started it so blame him

[general jack o'niell]

i've heard it all before, there was one man that lived on the corner of mill st and broad st that used to tell me that same tale everytime he came to the door to pay his bill (i went round collecting the money one night a week to, come to think, that john curry was tight, should never have let him appear in our kung fu movie)

every week he would tell me all about the milk in cans, dan black, blah blah blah, then i left the job, left school grew a few years older and how was i supposed to know she was his daughter? 24yrs later? you got it, i'm still hearing that same story!!!!!

[bill]

i was having a discussion with my brother in law and he asked me what the oldest purpose built council houses were?

According to "The Campbeltown Book",commissioned by the Kintyre Civic Society, the answer to your question is Castle Park cul-de-sac 1923.

[general jack o'niell]

as if i'd know where that is, i was going to hazard a guess but, cul-de-sac? is that the back of castlehill mansions opposite smith dr?

[bill]

as if i'd know where that is, i was going to hazard a guess but, cul-de-sac? is that the back of castlehill mansions opposite smith dr?

That's the one.

[general jack o'niell]

so a dalintober education didn't hold me back in life after all, i can use my brain to work out simple logistical conundrums, ok i guessed!!!

[Bobbie En Tejas]

I think the red and white ones are ugly, but the grey building is very interesting.. too bad they couldn't turn it into something else instead of tearing it down.. Maybe Campbeltown's first mall.. Don't hit me

What are they going to build there in its place?