The Viator

Longing for home

PEOPLE become attached to places and it can be a wrench to be parted from them.

Lithgow Club drama group from 1930s

PORT Glasgow reader Martha O'Donnell let me borrow this photograph of a Lithgow Club drama group annual dance in the late 1950s.

TV personality comes to town

TELEVISION personality Campbell Barclay officially opened Gourock Garden Party in August 1978.

Readers identify 1949 cricketers

SOME weeks ago, I asked readers if they could identify the young cricketers in the accompanying photograph.

Making news in years past

Memory lane...

The class from the monk

Port Glasgow reader John Gisbey brought in this photograph of his old Holy Family primary class from around 1950.

1930s Merino mill

FLEMING Reid's Merino mill has been mentioned in this page on several occasions in the past year.

Search for Comet captain

THIS year marks the 200th anniversary of the launch of the Comet, the world's first successful steamship.

Mystery solved over old building

MY thanks go to the many readers who contacted the Telegraph to identify this building.

Inverclyde Pipe Band say thanks

Going back to September 1983, we see Highland dancers Fiona McAskill and Jacqueline Dunlop - both 15 - in action with Inverclyde Pipe Band in Greenock's Clyde Square.

Harry was a man of many skills

Many readers will be aware of the song 'The Green Oak Tree', but it's possible few know of its origin.

Can you identify the building in question?

I have received several photographs showing this building in various stages of its construction.

Local dates of significance

AN old document recently came into my possession which includes a number of locally significant dates.

Giving the Ardgowan primary pupils a name

I am indebted to Greenock reader Elspeth Turpie for sending names of the pupils in last week's Ardgowan School picture.

Girls from St Ninian's have an answer for everything

This district has a long tradition of promoting road safety, especially among schoolchildren.

Tribute to heroes

GREENOCk reader Iain White was greatly interested in a story in the paper last week about the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery at the small French harbour town of St Valery en Caux.

Digging into the past

I Recently mentioned a reader had asked me for information about the Inchgreen Engineering company of Greenock.

In times past

Inverclyde received a major boost with the recent news that Ferguson Shipbuilders of Port Glasgow had received an order for two ferries.

School gave cheque to appeal

TODAY we go back to February 1982, when pupils of St Lawrence's Primary School, Greenock, handed over a cheque for £100 to a kidney appeal fund.

Full steam ahead

Some time ago I wrote about the former Nine Arches bridge in Port Glasgow that carried the railway from Glasgow's St Enoch station to Princes Pier. I asked if readers had photographs of the line and two are reproduced today.