Maid of the Loch masted
The paddle steamer, Maid of the Loch – lying at Balloch on Loch Lomond and the last such boat built in Britain, is being restored. She has now had two new masts fitted in her first refit since 1978....
View ArticleGet into special places on Doors Open Day – like the National Park HQ at Balloch
This year’s Doors Open Days has already listed many of the buildings that will offer us free access for one day – 13th September. More buildings will be listed on a regular basis throughout August. One...
View Article2009 Loch Lomond Highland Games
The 2009 Loch Lomond Highland Games are at Balloch on 18th July.
View ArticleNational Park to reintroduce passenger ferry on Loch Lomond
The love affair with the car that put paid to the century-old passenger ferry service on Loch Lomond that stopped about 30 years ago is now, of course, responding to environmental concerns.This has...
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First Lomond Writers’ Gathering March 26-29 dedicated to Agnes Owen
The inaugural Lomond Writers Gathering is to be a four day event from 26th to 29th March 2012, held at The Kilted Skirlie at Lomond Shores in Balloch.It centres around a series of workshops for...
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Argyll writer John M Wylie to feature in Lomond Writers’ Gathering anthology
John M.Wyllie, a writer from Tarbert in Argyll’s Kintyre, is to have his poem Heroes in an Autumn Storm included in a prestigious anthology published in association with the inaugural Lomond Writers’...
View ArticleFree mobile phone apps for Three Lochs Way
One of Scotland’s Great Trails is the Three Lochs Way, running from Balloch on Loch Lomond, to Helensburgh on the Clyde at the Gare Loch, along Loch Long to its head at Arrochar, then north into the...
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What 60 year old who has been unable to move for more than half her life...
Let’s look at the clues. She took her first steps on 5th March 1953. She has been immobilised since 1981. Now in very poor health, she has a last chance of recovery. The good news is that if it works,...
View ArticleMaid of the Loch beer to put steam into Maid of the Loch’s return to the water
Loch Lomond Brewery has steamed to the aid of the Paddle Steamer, Maid of the Loch, effectively dead in the water as an immobile visit attraction for the past 32 years.Her owners of the last 20 years...
View ArticleTake the water to the Luss Loch Lomond Highland Gathering
Never mind the high road or the low road – take the water to the 2013 Luss Loch Lomond Highland Gathering. The Loch Lomond ferries are running Gathering specials direct to Luss from Balmaha,...
View ArticleCall for Culture Secretary to back PS Maid of the Loch
Local MSP Jackie Baillie has urged the Scottish Government to pledge its support to get the Maid of the Loch sailing again.Volunteers at the popular Loch Lomond attraction are busy trying to raise £4...
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Three Lochs Way: Highlandman’s Road section reopened and additional access...
The Three Lochs Way, swinging from Balloch to Inveruglas through Helensbugh and linking Loch Lomond, The Gare Loch and Loch Long, is one of Argyl’s first class long distance walking trails.Last week,...
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Welcome to Argyll’s Loch Litter-side and to Loch Litter and the Tossers...
A resident of Argyll has drawn our attention to a growing litter problem on the A82 along Loch Lomond-side in Argyll, in the hope that the responsible authorities – either or both of Argyll and Bute...
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Ranging around volunteering with UK National Parks’ Volunteer of the Year
For Argyll reported recently that Stuart Crawford, five years a volunteer in the ranger and conservation services at Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, had been made Volunteer of the Year in...
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Managers of Scotland’s Great Trails – 1,700 miles of them – meet in Balloch
The Route managers of Scotlands’ Great Trails held their regular meeting at the National Park’s Carrochan HQ building in Balloch on Wednesday 1st April.The meeting heard reports about progress with...
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