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Whiting Bay 100 years
WHITING BAY MEMORIES 100 Years
Free Exhibitions
11th 12th 13th 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
Coming Soon
The Vikings at Kingscross
A Tale and A Trail
A Day working in Coopers
The Royal Bank
Memories 100 Stitched Stories
Come along and find out more about this project, no skills required, all welcome.
Please Note, Normal drop in meetings will be limited on this day.
AGM Sunday 12th May 2024
February 2024 New Tales and Trails
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.
November News
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
Here it is the Event of the year!
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.
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
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
click on the above link for more details.
EXCITING NEWS
Whiting Bay Memories Group are delighted to share the we have recieved National Lottery funding for our community project
The Story of Whiting Bay
A huge thank you to everyone who plays the National Lottery which allows groups like our to grow as a group and strengthen our community.
Our funding allows us to re-establish the group following our Covid interrupted break, and deliver an wonderful community project.
- Our group meetings begin in Whiting Bay Hall on Monday 16th May 10.30am
- ALL WELCOME Drop in every Monday from 10.30 am
- Daily online activity here https://www.facebook.com/groups/453396894696278
- Together we will Find, Capture and Share
- The Story of Whiting Bay
- SAVE THE DATES 16th & 17th July
- Interactive Exhibition
There will be group meetings throughout the year and more events will be planned.
Further details later.
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