Zen Zero
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Note the blue ensign.
Interesting old photo ...
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Note the blue ensign.
Zen Zero
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Where is it ? (easy!)
Clyde_Wanderer
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Looks a little like Carrickfergus, but I could be miles away.
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Zen Zero
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Carrickfergus it ain't, and you're a good 60NM distant.
mainsail1
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Helensburgh?
Zen Zero
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Closer than Carrickfergus but not Helensburgh, sorry.
Sharkx
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Zen Zero
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Correct! Tis Largs!
Sharkx
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Nice photo. There is a similar looking boat often speeding around off Largs. It usually moored just off the beach.
mainsail1
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Largs? Hmmmm too late!
Zen Zero
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It was taken by a friend of mine some time in the 70s I think. I wonder if it's the same boat. I'll have a look next time I'm around!
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The colours in the old photo are amazing.
Mistroma
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That's saved some head scratching. I looked at it around 17:00 and immediately thought Largs. Then I had second thoughts because something seemed familiar about it and I don't go to Largs very often. Bingo, now I see it. Pretty certain that the Viking Fish & Chip shop is on ground floor of the red building.
I spent the end of 2009 season in Largs and often drove from the marina to the Viking. Amazing how I could remember their special fish suppers more clearly than the building.
My memory is obviously much more faded than the colours in the photo.
I spent the end of 2009 season in Largs and often drove from the marina to the Viking. Amazing how I could remember their special fish suppers more clearly than the building.
My memory is obviously much more faded than the colours in the photo.
PeteCooper
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The boat that moors off the beach is nothing like the one in your picture - they use it for trips around the bay.
Sgeir
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I used to play saxophone in a 60's rock/blues band at the weekends in the Royal Hotel (name changed to something else some years ago). IIRC it was just to the right of St Columba's kirk in your pic. The hotel had a dance hall that you entered from a passage between the the church and the hotel. Despite the proximity of the church, a deal of immorality went on there, though I never actually managed any myself.
Zen Zero
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The dance hall was called the Nordic Suite, it later became a snooker club and is now flats. The Royal was bought out by the barman and his mother whereupon it promptly stopped being a hotel and gradually converted itself from pub to restaurant. It's still somewhere in between, but more restaurant than pub now I believe.
Where do you play your saxophone now Sgeir?
Sgeir
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I played alto in those days, but tenor nowadays. I'm occasionally allowed sit in with some much better (than me) jazz musicians in the Stirling area.
When they let me.....
Also play with friends at the Wednesday ceilidh and folk sessions in the Settle Inn in Stirling.
It's all just one great round of musical excitement;
Some nights I play the saxophone,
Some nights I play bouzouki.
Some nights I just stay in the house,
And sit on my bahookie.
When they let me.....
Also play with friends at the Wednesday ceilidh and folk sessions in the Settle Inn in Stirling.
It's all just one great round of musical excitement;
Some nights I play the saxophone,
Some nights I play bouzouki.
Some nights I just stay in the house,
And sit on my bahookie.
Spyro
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and it has a planing hull and does about 25 knots no chance the one in the pic will. I think it might also have a jet drive but could be wrong on that one.
Could that pic be even earlier than the 70s. Would that be the slip that is now next to the pier?
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Zen Zero
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The ferry slip was built in 1974, and it's not there in the picture => pre 1974, what I think you're calling the the slip is the harbour wall. So it could be pre 70s.
