CSC-CC-000 - Cairndow Sports Clubs
Shinty No other sport better captures the unique character of West Highland life than Shinty. It’s a fast and furious game played by teams from… Read More »CSC-CC-000 – Cairndow Sports Clubs
Shinty No other sport better captures the unique character of West Highland life than Shinty. It’s a fast and furious game played by teams from… Read More »CSC-CC-000 – Cairndow Sports Clubs
According to the Glasgow Herald of November 1895 a Mr Herbert Strutt, had offered £500 towards the building of a new hall, estimated to be… Read More »CVH-000 – Cairndow Village Hall
In 2020 Here We Are was successful in securing grant funding from the Energy Savings Trust for 10 ebikes. They were delivered in April 2020… Read More »EB-000 – E-Bikes
Fish farming began in Cairndow in the 1970’s when Golden Sea Produce built a Salmon Hatchery beside the river Kinglas on Ardkinglas Estate. In the… Read More »FF-000 – Fish Farming
How and Why our Landscape has changed – visit our website – www.glenfyne.org.uk In 2011 Here We Are had the idea of a “Gazetteer of… Read More »GAZ-000 – Gazetteer of Cairndow – Glen Fyne Website
Until the later 19th century a holiday of more than a day trip was the privilege of the well off, eccentric poets and artists or… Read More »HC-000 Holidays in Cairndow
In 2005 we were preparing an exhibition on Power: Past and Present. We had information on – the 18-century mill on the Kinglas river; a… Read More »HIB-000 – How It Began
Completed in 1959, Glen Shira phase: pre-stressed gravity Alt-na-Lairige dam (Maples, Ridgway & Partners Ltd) and tunnel to power station on River Fyne. Round-headed buttress… Read More »HS-000 – The 1950s Hydro Schemes
The Story Of A Community Enterprise by Robin Lingard 2020 Robin Lingard, (at that time at Highlands and Islands Enterprise and then of Kinnairdie Consulting),… Read More »HWAS-000 – The “Here We Are” Story
In 2007 Margaret Bjork Bjornsdttir (Maggie) and her two daughters came to Cairndow for 3 months in the summer. They were a farming family from… Read More »IS-000 – Icelandic Student