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Whiting Bay 100 years

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WHITING BAY MEMORIES 100 Years

Free Exhibitions

11^th 12^th 13^th July 2026

Celebrating a centenary of Whiting Bay Public Hall and our village

Lots to see with things to do, fun to hear
and exciting to view.

100 years of Whiting Bay Hall Exhibition

The history and the people who made it happen
The official opening and the building
Drama
WRI
Events and hall users across the years

100 Stitched stories wall panel for 100 years of the hall

Memories, events and the hall history are all represented on 100 individual panels which have been designed and stitched by a group of stitchers over the past two years.
100 Years of Whiting Bay
1926 Village Map & 2026 Village Map
Take a walk through the village in 1926
Look at the 1930s includes The Boys’ Brigade
Whiting Bay at War in 1940s
1950 Beach fun, Bus Shelters, Building, Bowling and Busy lives.
1960’s The Times They Are A-Changin’
A tour of the village in the 1970s
1980s Fun Days
Golf Club Centenary and things we could do in the 90s
Millenium and beyond go digital
Musical Memories & Memorabilia
- September Weekends
- Arran Junior Singers
- Arran Music Festival
The Arran Banner > the early years and Whiting Bay News
Happy Ever After

To Do

Try your hand at Whist
Play some retro games

To Hear

Choose to hear recordings from local singers
September Weekend Film with music

To View

The September Weekend Film
2009 Raft Race Film

To Smell !

Enjoy the smell of peat smoke in 1926

To Touch Have a close look at some of our interesting artifacts

To Purchase

A Framed Souvenir Picture of Whiting Bay Hall

With a beautiful poem By Artist James Taylor

A 100 Stitched Stories souvenir booklet

Our Memories Café will be available during the three days (excluding Saturday evening)

The exhibition is free but we are happy to accept donations for the next 100 years of Whiting Bay Hall.

Whiting Bay Memories would like to thank the Arran Community Council for awarding this two-year project Funded by Scottish Power Renewables’ Beinn an Tuirc 3 Windfarm.

Thank you to Arran Heritage Museum for our items on loan.

All the people who have visited us and shared memories and stories, brought images and memorabilia along. Those who have contributed in any way especially all our amazing facebook group. THANK YOU ALL.

Whiting Bay Improvements Fun Weekend will be the same weekend so there will be something for everyone to enjoy.

We look forward to seeing you in July

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AGM Sunday 12th May 2024

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February 2024 New Tales and Trails

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Copyright © All information, maps and images used on this website should not be copied or used without the permission of Whiting Bay Memories. Images and information have been shared with the group and this includes all of our facebook members.

Join us on facebook here A private group, your interest must be legitimate.

The Tales and Trails team have been working very hard to bring these trails and tales to you. First the ideas, then the chatting and gathering stories, then the research. Graham has walked his Trail of 3 Bridges, created maps, transcribed and written the trail and added his own drone images, and he also learned how to upload to the website.

Cheryl has walked the trail of Largiebeg, taken photographs, transcribed pages of text. Written the trail and it will be live very soon. She has also learned how to add to the website.

Meanwhile Barbara has managed to put the history of these trails onto the website. This involved working from notes taken at our regular meeting ( you may have helped with this) It took a considerable length of time trawling our facebook posts for pictures and your amazing informative comments, all these help to build the history. Then there are our extensive archives of documents and images. All of these have been generously shared by our members. (You defininately helped with that) And research, there is always research. We use our archives, consult many old Arran books, British newspaer archives, Scotlands People and Arran Heritage Museum archives

Maggie is busy researching family history following a recent request, we always have the need for family history so Maggie will always be busy.

Susan’s trail is a family trail and we hope to go live with it very soon. Other trails are pending. Janet is busy writing up a tale and she and George are always on-hand to answer our many questions. We call them the oracles! We need them on video you will be amazed at their memories.

So please check out all of our heritage tales and trails.

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November News

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Whiting Bay Memories group meet each Monday 11am to 1pm. Everyone is welcome to join us. Become a new member and enjoy regular meetings of coffee and chat about the village. Who knows what stories you will hear! Drop in when you are next on Arran

Last meeting of 2023 is December 4th Memories group with 100 Stiched Stories Christmas Special.

January 8th 2024 > Drop in and join the group with our Heritage Tales and Trails Project. All welcome including well behaved dogs. You can enjoy finding out more about this project and read the first of our tales here

Thank you to everyone who has come along to any of our events or joined us on Monday mornings during this past year, we have really enjoyed your company, your stories and look forward to seeing you again soon.

Last but not least, a big “Thank You” to all our stichers especially Fiona Doubleday who does a wonderful job as project manager of 100 Stiched Stories

Lynn Jones demonstrates felting & tells us the history of felting to the stitching group

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Here it is the Event of the year!

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It’s time to book the ferry Remember you don’t necessarily need to bring a car, you could visit for the day and get the bus.

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DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

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Monday 22nd May 2023

AGM

Whiting Bay Lesser Hall 11am

All Welcome.

Come along and find out what we have done during the past year. We have been very busy!

Here all our forthcoming plans.

Be entertained with a short film.

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Saturday 8th & Sunday 9th July

Exhibition for Everyone 2023

click on the above link for more details.

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Whiting Bay & Districts Memories

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Welcome to our official group. We are normally known as Whiting Bay Memories, but our districts are included in the official group title and especially in our memories.

You may know us better from previous activities in the village.

July 2016 Whiting Bay Memories Reunion

A Celebration of Whiting Bay Past and Present May 2019

Bunting Making 2018/19

Banner Making with Whiting Bay Primary School

**using the scraps from bunting making at Whiting Bay Primary School**

Whiting Bay Memories facebook group

This popular group now has over one thousand members! members are invited to contribute their pictures, ask questions, share their memories and enjoy lots of interaction.

To advance the group, the organisers decided to formalise it, and allow our contributed items to be made more accessible to all. Also to allow a more indepth look at the village, to compliment our facebook group and deliver some of our benefits on a more regular basis. In summary we decided not to leave our memories in boxes for a couple of years! Now we look forward to sharing more memories with you through this site.

In March 2019 we constituted our group, with the following objects;

Object:

The object of the group shall be to advance the education of the local community and interested general public in the history and social history of the village of Whiting Bay and it’s Districts on the Isle of Arran (KA27)

To preserve the village heritage by the collection and compilation of writings, memories, memorabilia, photographs, records, items, artefacts and writings of local historic interest and to preserve, protect and retain the articles for community use and enjoyment.

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Welcome to Whiting Bay Memories

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Make Your Way to Whiting Bay – Memories
Enjoy our website
Get to know the village
Read contributed memories
Find old friends
Get help with your genealogy
Send us your stories, pictures and memories
Make a suggestion

Welcome to Whiting Bay Memories.
This is the first post to our new website. We are very excited about building this site and hope you will enjoy it for years to come. Over the past few years the memories group have been donated many pictures, stories, video footage, memories and documents. The collection is far too enjoyable to remain in boxes and is not always suitable for our wonderful facebook group. Here we will offer some articles with a longer read. Share some of our special exhibitions from our past events, and always add new items when we can.
Remembering we are a holiday island and village, you can expect to see more during the winter months though.

Featured post

Whiting Bay & Districts Memories

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Our group is normally known as Whiting Bay Memories, but our districts are included in the official group title and especially in our memories.

You may know us better from previous activities in the village.

July 2016 Whiting Bay Memories Reunion

A Celebration of Whiting Bay Past and Present May 2019

Bunting Making 2018/19

Banner Making with Whiting Bay Primary School

Whiting Bay Memories facebook group

This popular group now has over one thousand members! members are invited to contribute their pictures, ask questions, share their memories and enjoy lots of interaction.

As an advancement of the group, the organisers decided to have a formal group in order to make our contributed items more accessible to all and allow a more indepth look at the village to compliment our facebook group and deliver some of out benefits on a more regular basis. In summary we decided not to leave our memories in boxes for a couple of years! Now we look forward to sharing more with you through this site.

In March 2019 we constituted our group, with the following objects;

Object:

The object of the group shall be to advance the education of the local community and interested general public in the history and social history of the village of Whiting Bay and it’s Districts on the Isle of Arran (KA27)
To preserve the village heritage by the collection and compilation of writings, memories, memorabilia, photographs, records, items, artefacts and writings of local historic interest and to preserve, protect and retain the articles for community use and enjoyment.