Scottish Memories JUNE2008

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Our front cover this month from the lens of ace photographer Dennis Hardley is of Portpatrick harbour on the Galloway coast near Stranraer.

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Inside

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A Capital Capital

2

Chiel,Fancy Thats,Wit And Wisdom

4

Magnificent Obsession 5

Barnacle Bill Of The Islands

6

Workouts And Singalongs

8

Mistress Of The Revels 10

Sounds Of Scotland 11

5

Flight To Immortality 12

A Court In Stylish Exile 14

The Fatal Shore

A Suburb For All Seasons

16

18

14

Time Capsules

20

Dennis Hardley’s View Of The Month 24

Body Of Evidence 28

Newsflash ’78

Sea Jackals

30

32

32

The George Forbes Column

35

The Folks On The Hill 36

Reviving Wells

38

Supernatural Scotland,Time Capsule 39

Time Capsules

41

44

Mailbox

42

Poets Corner

43

Summer Scenes 44

Backstreet Bookies And Merry Moonshine 46

Next month in Scottish Memories • The Stagecoach Now Leaving • A Golden Age of Music Making • The Cave Of Skulls • Many Towered Sentinel • South Sea Scots • Vive Ecosse - The French Connection

View Of The Month

July issue on sale,Thursday,June 19th.

www.scottish-memories.co.uk

The Dennis Hardley View of the Month is

of Glen Creran in Argyll and it can be

viewed in all its glory on pages 24 and 2 5.