Celebration 2019

Past and Present Exhibition

11th and 12th May 2019

The memories group hosted an all village celebration of Whiting Bay Past and Present,

The weekend included 2 days of FREE  Exhibition, plus Music, Food & Activities in and around the village.

Star Exhibit

This was kindly organised and funded by Bob Haddow of Point House Kingscross. A return to the village of the Austin Gypsy fire engine which was based at Lennox Garage during the 60’s

A two day exhibition of Memories throughout the decades.

Old Picture shows and a decade of Fun week’s digital pictures.

Special exhibitions to include “The Arran Gallery at St Columbas” a show of stunning “Model Boats” and some surprise old favourites from the 70-80’s “Arts and Crafts” with Children’s activities.

   Family Ceilidh with Arranach  B.Y.O.B.

Arranach Ceilidh Dance Band

  Mogabout excursion to Giants Graves and Glenashdale

We wanted to give everyone a chance to enjoy those wonderful views, so we hired the Mogabout for 6 trips over two days.

Sunday at the hall – the exhibition included artists and makers offering interactive crafting.

Around the village most of our business’s will be offered something special for the weekend, this included Pop up’s, music, special menus and open events. Even Nags burgers were back for the weekend!

Filming for our DVD took place all around the village during the weekend. We think everyone had a wonderful weekend. The memories organisers all had time to enjoy the weekend too. This was due to the many amazing volunteers before, during and after the event.

The whole village make a great effort to join in the celebration as you will see from our DVD.

The generous prizes from around the island contributed to a great raffle and tombola.

Did you know, we began without a penny and we are delighted to say, that thanks to everyone’s support and generosity, we made a profit of just over £400 and promptly invested £84 in this website.

A memories group open meeting will be held in Whiting Bay Lesser Hall on Sunday 1st September at 2pm. Everyone is invited to attend, to help shape the future of the group.

You can always be sure of a warm welcome in Whiting Bay.