Meeting and fellowship for retired men
Saving Pollock Sawmill with a Micro-Hydro Electric Scheme was the topic of the talk by Gordon Black at a recent meeting of Largs PROBUS Club. Gordon reported that the former 1860 sawmill located in Pollock Country Park, a ‘B’ listed 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 …
Did Judas Iscariot betray Jesus because in his earlier days he was a freedom fighter and he thought Jesus would bring an army of angels down to defeat the Romans? At the Battle of Falkirk did Robert the Bruce really Read More …
The Panama Canal, known as the Seventh Wonder of the Modern World, was built to decrease dramatically the travel time for ships between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. Its history was the subject of a recent talk by Malcolm Read More …
We caught the 09.50 bus from Largs Main Street to the Clyde Coast and Garnock Valley Crematorium. We set off up the track to the Kilburn Wind Farm so that we could visit the crash site of Fairey Firefly DT977 on Read More …
“trench’d its gushing entrails bright.”
Translates as:
Digging into your glistening insides,