April 2024
John Hooley travelled from Macclesfield to give us his Western Isles to the land of MacBraynes presentation. It was a wonderful evening when John showed us many quite rare images of very old MacBraynes vessels starting with shots of the very unusual 1880 Linnet at Crinan. Many shots of Paddle Steamers followed and all these came with an excellent commentary from John, we also we saw steam train shots that visited ferry piers during that time. An interesting section was a description of the British Railways ferry Duke of Lancaster that undertook a cruise around the Western Isles in 1961. After the interval we were told about MacBraynes 1950 season showing more modern vessels bringing us up to date with present day fleet members. A great night John and we look forward to seeing you again next year.