I started my apprenticeship in 1978, prior to that I was a bit lost as to what to do with myself – I did think about Glasgow School of Art. Pete Stimpson, who was the foreman, stuck us in a corner with a propane burner and a welding set for…
Billy McLean
It was early in May 1977, in the middle of my final exams, and four weeks away from leaving school, when a notice was sent out to all who were interested, that Trevor Perkins, Manager of Campbeltown Shipyard, was going to be in the school on a recruitment drive. Moira…
Following on from a piece written by Billy McLean, of Campbeltown, a former plater with Campbeltown Shipyard, we are adding a collection of his photographs which show two outreach projects where men from the Campbeltown yard were contracted out to work helping out in other yards, firstly at the Malakoff…
We are very grateful to those of you who came along to our final drop-in session on Monday 14th October at Campbeltown Town Hall. There will be an exhibition planning meeting late November/early December – dates and venue will be confirmed here on the website and on the Top Skippers’…
Radar’s tail got injured and the vet cut it off. He was called Radar because he always knew when it was piece time. I think the other cat was called Wee Tommy, although it was a female, it was called after Tommy Galbraith . I remember every day of the…
L-R Iain Munro (son of John Munro), Danny Cassidy, Adam McClelland, Jim Smith, Billy McLean, Davy Howell, Davy Anderson, Kenny McMillan, George Nelson, Billy Galbraith, Jock Kerr, Iain McCallum, John Campbell, Peter McCallum and Bobby Wylie. Photo courtesy of Jan Nimmo. We’d like to thank everyone who came along to…