We’ve pretty much escaped the worst of it so far this winter but who knows what the weather will throw at us in the coming year. In 1971, these ladies were well-prepared for the snowy onslaught.
In 1996, you didn’t have to travel far from Glasgow to get a taste of the Wild West – about as far as Millport, in fact.
Alongside the tombstones showing the consequences of its more dangerous aspects, the entertainment and music from the era was celebrated at the Millport-Nashville Country and Western Festival, the second that had been held.
Almost every shop and pub had been converted using false fronts into genuine-looking saloons, forts and fine sippin’ whisky and candy stores for the occasion.
There were horses and traps in the streets, stalls selling gunbelts, 10-gallon hats, feathered headdresses and pipes of piece.
There was even a gold rush – and music everywhere.
Sydney Devine was among the entertainers, who also included A Band Named
Sioux, the Diesel Cowboys
and Colt 45.
The Crazy Horse saloon, formerly the Cumbrae Club, staged a Country Show and Dance, while every pub on Cumbrae hosted its own welcome party for the at least 12,000 people who made the ferry trip.
It certainly seems to have been a great party – even at the graveyard!
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