August 17th,2011% HRH Princess Anne was invited to mark the 175th anniversary of the Arran Farmers’Show by Arran Farmers’Society.
She attended the Arran Farmers Show at Glenkiln to help celebrate a major farming milestone on the island.
The Princess was last here 25 years ago when the island’s Farmers Society celebrated it’s 150th year. August 2nd,2011% The annual Whiting Bay raft race took place on Saturday July 30 2011,with eight ‘ocean-going bogies’starting the race.
The vessels came in all shapes and sizes;a number were made by binding plastic barrels together and one even had a lovely red sail (unfortunately it failed to complete the race after capsizing half way across).
One team,the Edinburgh Hawks,a family holidaying in Lamlash,had only heard about the race that morning and had set to creating a raft just two hours before the off.
They may have finished in last place but their raft certainly held together for the whole race.
The winning raft was Cool Runnings —Alan McLeod,Adam Kelso,Sam Marriott and George Stewart. June 28th,2011% Maureen Smith is a housewife who lives in Lamlash but has a gift for drama.
As a member of Lamlash Drama Club she played many roles on stage in amateur drama productions ranging from comedy to melodrama.
Eleven years ago she took over as producer/director of the Arran Music and Drama Club.
It puts on a week-long annual show (musical/comedy) in May in Brodick Hall and occasional cameo selections of Gilbert and Sullivan/Rodgers and Hammerstein short productions.
Maureen has taken Arran amateur drama down new ambitious avenues with challenging productions like Jack the Ripper and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. This year’s production of ‘Bad Girls,The Musical’was probably the most controversial so far -- but it was a huge success.
Maureen talks to the Banner’s Howard Driver about her involvement in drama and musicals. June 23rd,2011% Arran High School performs Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream,June 2011. June 17th,2011% Two occupants of a car escape injury after their car collides with Corrie harbour wall on Arran. March 3rd,2011% The ladies of Shiskine SWRI walked off with five of the nine trophies at the 2011 Arran One-Act Drama Festival in Lamlash.
Two teams from Lamlash Junior Drama Club picked up the other four trophies.
The top prize of the A K Wooley Trophy usually goes to one of the so-called proper drama clubs,but Shiskine Rural received all the plaudits from adjudicator Mr Brian Marjoribanks last Saturday night.
The last time the A K Wooley Trophy was won by a SWRI team was 1963,and it was also Shiskine Rural then. Packed houses enjoyed the eight plays over three nights. November 22nd,2010% The 13th annual art exhibition at Brodick Castle,Arran. | |
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