Meeting and fellowship for retired men
At their recent meeting Largs Probus Club members were treated to Confessions of an Editor by Drew Cochrane, former editor of the Largs & Millport Weekly News. Drew apologised for appearing in a tracksuit, but after the meeting he going Read More …
The story of Orkney’s greatest explorer, Dr John Rae, and the search for the North West Passage was the interesting subject of the talk by David Vennard to a recent meeting of Largs Probus Club. Dr Rae was to become Read More …
Andrew Carnegie was the fascinating subject of a recent talk by Playwright David Dewar to Largs Probus Club. David gave an excellent synopsis of how this second son, born into a poor family from Dunfermline in 1835, became the richest man in Read More …
At a recent meeting of Largs PROBUS Club, a member, George Newlands, gave a short account of the action-packed career of Largs’ most notable native-born son, Major General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane,1st Baronet, GCB, GCH, FRS, FRSE. Sir Thomas Brisbane Read More …
Ducking under a rope at the age of 8 to ask the Queen the time led to Mike Kernan’s photograph appearing in the Daily Record and to his interest in journalism. This was the introduction Mike gave to his extremely Read More …
“trench’d its gushing entrails bright.”
Translates as:
Digging into your glistening insides,