Campbeltown Regeneration

[general jack o'niell]

now i know why he never spoke to me today, he probably blames me, begger should have opened his trap, i'd have gone and given him a hand, damn you, now i feel guilty, his three boys will probably try to buff me on saturday, as if?

[Malky]

This went slightly off topic so some posts have been moved. Can you all stick to the thread please.

I notice the article in the Courier about Robertsons shop front mentioned the Shop Front Initiative where local businesses can get grants for their shop frontages. Would the radio station be eligible for this by any chance?

Malky

[Frosty]

Hi Malky,
When I was walking up the Longrow Thursday evening your friendly nieghbourhood DJ KJ was a scrapping and painting for a good few hours so I think the AFM frontage can now be described as W.I.P.

fROSTY

Sorry to repeat the news , as I have just read 4th Gens posting , he was inside working hard at the time , I can vouch for that , along side John A and the Elusive Mr D ( who was recording prior to hisLive Show.

[Malky]

I was just thinking that if money was available the radio station should take advantage.

Malky

[general jack o'niell]

never fear DJKJ has it all in hand and i've been absolved of any blame, since i'm spending all weekend with his three sons i thought it better to find out if i would get home alive, seems he saw a pic of the saw doctors standing out front and quickly came to the same conclusion that it needed a paint.

[Frosty]

I can confirm that the reason he gave you Gen Jack was the same as he gave me on Thursday night.
More power to his elbows , and hopefully a few more will bite the bullet and follow his example.
Cheers
fROSTY

[deirdreh]

Would it be a good piece of Council thinking if when they sold Dell Road they bought Robertsons and turned it in to Council offices? Creating a central and accessible venue, and taking away an eyesore all in one swoop! Then they could leave the Burnett Building to being a museum, registrar and maybe a gallery / geneology / Gaelic cultural centre?

[Sweltered]

How many museums does the town need? Anyway, I thought Robertsons was becoming a Lidl

[The Hitman]

That was the rumour, even had a surveyor down. Not heard anything since!

[general jack o'niell]

lets hope some of the skullduggerers got the heave during the elections, the burnett building never stood a chance once the £50,000 that was earmarked for it ended up being spent on a flume for the dunoon pool.

i haven't read a library book since it moved to the aquafeckwittium, just my small personal protest, i used to visit at least once a week, so thats a whole year without any decent literature, if i keep it up for another 25yrs i'll be as thick as the rest of you.

[deirdreh]

How many museums does the town need? Anyway, I thought Robertsons was becoming a Lidl

Well before I moved to Kintyre I never visited for three reasons.

1: Very hard to get to

2: No youth hostel

3: The tourist info on Kintyre only highlighted the cemetery at Bellochantey. Not much use when you get to Lochgilhead and it is raining.

Kintyre needs to have something that draws people here and geneology is very popular. There is also funding becoming available for projects that link up Ireland and Scotland's history / heritage. Imagine how little there is to see when it is raining in Kintyre, as a visitor. Kintyre is abundant in many things that are of interest to people such a cultural history, archaelogical sites, etc but they do not appear to have been developed for the local popluation or visitors to view or experience.

[general jack o'niell]

i overheard a conversation which i think was about the building at the bottom of the big kiln and a plan to turn it into a hostel. way back in 97-98 the local radio station planned buying the old witchburn hospital, using part of it to broadcast from, part to turn into a professional recording studio and the rest as a hostel. unfortunately going public with this plan and telling the press how much they could afford indirectly led to someone else outbidding the radio by a few hundred pounds. even i know when it's prudent to keep your mouth shut, others did not.

imagine that plan seven years later? with the kintyre way etc etc there would have been a lot of use made of this hostel and no doubt the studio facilities too, who knows who could have come to the town and made use of the studio to record, but by the time other premises came on the market it was harder to get funding for such a scheme.

on a radio front, why no publicity about the proposed fyne radio bid, which i hear has not been granted a license. a little bird told me that over £900,000 of funding had been put in place by various bodies for a station that would only broadcast five hours of live presentation a week. there was even talk of subsidies to bus presenters from inverary to the station site. i'm glad they never got it, maybe some of that money will now come argyll fm way!!!

[Sweltered]

How many museums does the town need? Anyway, I thought Robertsons was becoming a Lidl

Well before I moved to Kintyre I never visited for three reasons.

1: Very hard to get to

2: No youth hostel

3: The tourist info on Kintyre only highlighted the cemetery at Bellochantey. Not much use when you get to Lochgilhead and it is raining.

Kintyre needs to have something that draws people here and geneology is very popular. There is also funding becoming available for projects that link up Ireland and Scotland's history / heritage. Imagine how little there is to see when it is raining in Kintyre, as a visitor. Kintyre is abundant in many things that are of interest to people such a cultural history, archaelogical sites, etc but they do not appear to have been developed for the local popluation or visitors to view or experience.

There is a museum, that you can't get into, and a heritage center, or is it closed? Why have another one?

[Beachcomber]

Kintyre needs to have something that draws people here and geneology is very popular.

Don't forget the wildlife, too. We've a wealth of animal life on and around Kintyre that would (and I'm sure already does) appeal to eco-tourists.

[Machrihanish]

Kintyre needs to have something that draws people here and geneology is very popular.

Don't forget the wildlife, too. We've a wealth of animal life on and around Kintyre that would (and I'm sure already does) appeal to eco-tourists.

Absolutely ! Don't forget the Owl Centre, definately worth a visit too.