Locating Buildings

[AndrewP]

Any suggestions for "Nornapdale," , apart from North Knapdale ? ...........

I would be happy to go along with North Knapdale.

Any suggestions for "Landbank", - there is a Langbank not that far away but on the other side of the Firth of Clyde, in Renfrewshire ............ but there's a niggle at the back of my mind that there is a place with a name similar to that in the Dunoon area ...................

Sandbank, just north of Dunoon.

All the best,

Andrew Paterson

[nelmit]

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Davie,

I was trying to find The Royal Hotel via a postcode search and came up with nothing. I then tried a couple of the neighbours from the 1881 census and Primrose Bank, Dunoon still appears to be there - PA23 7TR.

This is what led me to the search for a picture of Innellan.

Regards,
Annette M

Annette

Weel done to get the few miles down the Clyde Coast from Dunoon to Innellan.

We spent a family holiday there, in a caravan, when I was very young.

My memories are my father's repeated comments on the first day about the rain being just the "clearing shower", - torrential rain in a caravan is noisy (but still not as noisy as tin roofs in New Zealand ), and, after about 8 hours, he was right !, - the rest of the week was brilliant sunshine.

Being bitten on the leg on the beach by a cleg, the resultant bite swelling to frightening proportions.

And the fact that, adjacent to the caravan site, right up on the hill above Innellan itself, there was a golf course, - tee shots on several holes, if hooked or sliced as appropriate, would have ended up in the village a couple of hundred feet below.

Ain't memory fascinating?, as I remember nothing at all about what must have been an exciting journey for a 5 or 6 year old by train from Prestwick to Glasgow St Enoch station (for a couple of decades now, a large shopping mall), - the transfer to The Broomielaw, and the paddle steamer down to Innellan, - just that conviction in my memory that we did indeed travel by steamer (only possibly "paddle"), - very vague memories of arriving at Innellan Pier, - and, it's probably a later addition that I didn't quite understand that my father was so fascinated by the engines that he had to go and look at them so often - "West of Scotland speak" to the rest of the family for a quick visit to the bar, - ships didn't have any limitation on opening hours.

However much I challenge the memory, especially by writing this post, no other clear memories surface ............................... except, and smell is reckoned to be one of the most powerful senses in terms of memory, the smell of the countryside drying out in the evening sunshine following that first day's torrential rain..........

Davie

[DavidWW]

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Any suggestions for "Landbank", - there is a Langbank not that far away but on the other side of the Firth of Clyde, in Renfrewshire ............ but there's a niggle at the back of my mind that there is a place with a name similar to that in the Dunoon area ...................

Sandbank, just north of Dunoon.

All the best,

Andrew Paterson

SCREAM Ah bluidy weel kent there wis sumhin very similar in the locality.

Is that no close tae whaur the United States Navy had the Polaris submarine base that would have led to the elimination of Glasgow if the Cold War had gone "hot" ??

Davie

[DavidWW]

What also really fascinates me about this thread is how it's been the combined efforts of several members, as is so often the case on TalkingScot, that has resulted in the "answer" for HeatherK =D>

Davie

[HeatherH]

Hi there not long off the phone with Mum.We both want to say thank you sooooooo much to Davie, Annette, Wilma and Andrew.
Kudos to you all,
HeatherK & Mum

[Laura]

Has there been a glitch in the system?

Laura

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Davie,

I was trying to find The Royal Hotel via a postcode search and came up with nothing. I then tried a couple of the neighbours from the 1881 census and Primrose Bank, Dunoon still appears to be there - PA23 7TR.

This is what led me to the search for a picture of Innellan.

Regards,
Annette M

Annette

Weel done to get the few miles down the Clyde Coast from Dunoon to Innellan.

We spent a family holiday there, in a caravan, when I was very young.

My memories are my father's repeated comments on the first day about the rain being just the "clearing shower", - torrential rain in a caravan is noisy (but still not as noisy as tin roofs in New Zealand ), and, after about 8 hours, he was right !, - the rest of the week was brilliant sunshine.

Being bitten on the leg on the beach by a cleg, the resultant bite swelling to frightening proportions.

And the fact that, adjacent to the caravan site, right up on the hill above Innellan itself, there was a golf course, - tee shots on several holes, if hooked or sliced as appropriate, would have ended up in the village a couple of hundred feet below.

Ain't memory fascinating?, as I remember nothing at all about what must have been an exciting journey for a 5 or 6 year old by train from Prestwick to Glasgow St Enoch station (for a couple of decades now, a large shopping mall), - the transfer to The Broomielaw, and the paddle steamer down to Innellan, - just that conviction in my memory that we did indeed travel by steamer (only possibly "paddle"), - very vague memories of arriving at Innellan Pier, - and, it's probably a later addition that I didn't quite understand that my father was so fascinated by the engines that he had to go and look at them so often - "West of Scotland speak" to the rest of the family for a quick visit to the bar, - ships didn't have any limitation on opening hours.

However much I challenge the memory, especially by writing this post, no other clear memories surface ............................... except, and smell is reckoned to be one of the most powerful senses in terms of memory, the smell of the countryside drying out in the evening sunshine following that first day's torrential rain..........

Davie

[DavidWW]

Has there been a glitch in the system?

Laura

No !!

My fault, ... I hit the "Edit" button instead of the "Quote" button.

If you have Admin priviledges, any post can be edited.............

Whoops

Davie

[Laura]

Has there been a glitch in the system?

Laura

No !!

My fault, ... I hit the "Edit" button instead of the "Quote" button.

If you have Admin priviledges, any post can be edited.............

Whoops

Davie

Whew! For a minute there I thought Davie was posting a message under Nelmit's username.

My new glasses will be here soon.

Regards,
Laura

[DavidWW]

Whew! For a minute there I thought Davie was posting a message under Nelmit's username.

My new glasses will be here soon.

Regards,
Laura

As if I would ever post as Nelmit

Sounds like the new glasses are required

Davie

[AnneM]

Hi All

I don't believe I missed this post. I was born in Dunoon and brought up in Sandbank. I must admit to not remembering the Royal Hotel but my mother assures me it was up a road to your right as you drive from Dunoon to Innellan just before Innellan village. She remembers the fire and she and my father went to see the building once it had burnt. She thinks it may have been rebuilt and re-opened but I'm not too sure.

Anne

PS I'm going home in a week or two 10/08 to be exact (8/10 for our transatlantic members.) Will go down, have a look and if poss take a photie or two of where it is/was.

Amme