NEW RESEARCH
NEW RESEARCH
2025 - Kenneth Bell - POW. His memories of liberation after three years as a Japanese prisoner of war.
2025 - VJ Day: Forgotten Armies. As the nation marks the eightieth anniversary of VJ Day, we remember three men who fought in SE Asia.
2025 - James Irvine: Easdale Volunteer Artillery
2024 - John MacGillivray's paper: Easdale, Origins of a Name
2024 - D-Day Anniversary
2024 - The 1887 Rifle Range
We are indebted to Bill Flentje, who contacted us in April. He has provided much information on the targetry used at the old Volunteers' rifle range above Ellenabeich. He also found documentary evidence that a similar range existed on the Isle of Luing, built for the Luing section of the Easdale Volunteer Artillery.
Our thanks to the Luing History Group for pinpointing where the range is and for finding the remains of a Ralston mechanical target.
We have updated the Rifle Range page on the Trust's website.
2023 - Kilbrandon Houses
Figure i: Kilbrandon House
Figure ii: Kilbrandon House including earlier building
Figure iii: Byre from the sea
Figure iv: Byre front
Figure v: Byre Lean-To
Figure vi: one of four fireplaces
Figure vii: plaster moulding
Figure viii: Kilbrandon Farm
2023 - Sea Mine
In 1942 a sea mine was washed ashore at Ellenabeich before exploding. A number of dwellings were damaged, as the local police report explains. Shrapnel from the mine survives to this day.