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Exciting News for 2025/6

A new project announcement for a New Year

We are delighted to let you know that our recent funding appliction to Arran Community Council has been successful, and their continued support is very much appreciated. Arran Community Council is funded by Scottish Power renewables Beinn an Tuirc 3 Windfarm.

A 2-year Community Project from Whiting Bay Memories group.

Whiting Bay 100 years – 2026 is a Social History Project to explore the village across the decades from 1926-2026

Concluding in July 2026 with an exhibition, and celebration of 100 years of village heritage for;

Whiting Bay Village Hall Centenary. July 2026

We will capture a timeline of the village in 1926 and with your help 2026. Present a historic picture of the evolution of the village and of family life and work across those decades.

2025-6 Our members creating 100 stitched stories of the hall, will work to complete 100 panels and transfer them to produce one large fabric exhibition wall hanging for the Village Hall to mark the Centenary. Plus a written presentation of the wall hanging.

Stitchers will be offered 5 supporting skills workshops during 2025

A Souvenir Booklet of the Stitched Stories Project to mark the Centenary will be produced for our EXHIBITION in July 2026.

Join in and help us, we need you!

The group meet each Monday in Whiting Bay Hall 11am -1pm

We have planned some specific dates for Drop in days when we will be pleased to welcome you with a coffee and hear your memories and stories, see your pictures or any pieces of the giant puzzle of the village and districts over the past 100 years you can offer. In addition we are always happy to share any information too.

There are some weeks we will have plans away from the hall, so please check here or village noticeboards or our facebook group for drop in dates. If these dates do not match your visit, just contact us and we will arrange something suitable.

100 Stitched Stories Stitchers meet 1st Monday of each month. Contact us to receive monthly emails and workshop details. (Open to all)

Our diary to date includes:

Monday 3rd February> Stitched Stories and Memories Drop in.

Monday 3rd March> Stitched Stories Workshop details to follow

  • Meet the group.
  • Come along and find out more about this exciting project. Share your stories, pictures and memories of Whiting Bay, any decade and memory over the past 100 years. Help us build our village map and put people in places.

Monday 7th April > Stitched Stories Workshop details to follow tbc

Monday 14th April > Drop In- All Welcome. Come along and share your memories of Whiting Bay, any decade and memory, bring pictures we would love to see them.

Easter Monday April 21st> Sorry No Meeting

Monday 5th May > Stitched Stories Workshop details to follow tbc

Monday 26th May > Drop In- All Welcome. Come along and share your memories of Whiting Bay, any decade and memory, bring pictures we would love to see them.

The memories group wish you all a very Happy New Year.

February 2024 New Tales and Trails

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.