Kilchattan Bay

This week's Bits from Bygone Bute photo was submitted to us by Marion Justice and shows Marion with family in Kilchattan Bay. If you've got a photo you'd like to share with readers - whether an old family shot, a picture of your class at primary school ...

That previous image showed the royal couple arriving at Rothesay pier on August 11, 1958; Julia's snap shows them about to depart, later the same day, from the old steamer pier in Kilchattan Bay. The royal visit was the last significant use for the ...

Ellen, who is also a member of Bute Community Council, will walk from Kilchattan Bay to Rothesay and back this Friday, February 26, to raise money for the Scottish Cot Death Trust. The day of the walk marks the sixth anniversary of little Emma's sudden ...

Better broadband speeds should be available in the Kingarth and Kilchattan Bay areas of Bute in the first few months of 2016. The Kingarth Hotel will host a community meeting on January 13 looking at possible ways of improving services to areas of the ...

Eight new heritage apple trees have been planted in Kingarth and Kilchattan Bay's community orchard courtesy of funds raised by local firm Coffee Conscience. The trees were carefully selected by John Hancox from the Commonwealth Orchard and Fruitful ...

What used to be the public bar has been retained - though all the pumps and electrics have been disconnected - and a mural of Kilchattan Bay by island artist Cliff Kay has also survived, with Mr Kay himself in charge of that aspect of the restoration.