Collection: Local Collection Non Fiction

A chronological history of Glen Scotia - largely based on research in local newspapers - giving an account of the distillery from its foundation in 1832 until the present day. Including biographical sketches of the main characters set against the ever-changing social and industrial background of ...

Kintyre is a 50 mile long, and extremely beautiful, peninsula on the western edge of Scotland. Its population has a very mixed genetic base reflecting its important geographical position between Ireland and Scotland, its excellent international harbour in the Royal Burgh of Campbeltown, and its f...

Album of published photographs of Inveraray and environs

William and Janet Johnston emigrated from Campbeltown to South Australia in 1839, when the British colony was two years old. They arrived with their daughter and five of six sons and, like many settlers, became farmers. Elder sons, William junior and James soon became proficient brewers and in 18...