A wee tribute to Campbeltown Shipyard 

Thanks for sharing, and showing some of modern day Wee Toon.....looks like nothing has changed, and that is part of it's charm.....

Thankyou for sharing your story. What a fantastic video. That really came from the heart and it was superbly presented; we loved your story and we were almost in tears with you at the end. We revisited Cambeltown this September during the beautiful spell of weather and we enjoyed researching the history of Campbeltown and the Kintyre peninsula. My wife and I were at the base back in 1980 and we just had to revisit Cambeltown again. It’s such a beautiful town with the friendliest of people. We love it.

So enjoyed your memories of the shipyard. Happy and better times. Now we get ferries built in Turkey! Thanks again.

Brian, you made your old dad very nostalgic for the old days. Thanks for the memories.

Hi I just came across you video, I expect you would have known my uncle -Malcolm Hamilton during your time in the shipyard, he was well known and retired in 1988 as far as I can remember. Cheers Jim T

Great story I also served my time in a shipyard in Tyneside it certainly gives you a good grounding in life and comaradary

Great video remind me so so much of my apprenticeship brought back some good memories for me thanks

I enjoyed that made me think back to when I was an apprentice electrician late 60,s i still have love and great memories and respect for my work friends. Set me up for my life .😊

Superb, Brian. I worked for the grand total of 2 weeks at the "yerd" I was an apprentice electrician with McKinlay & Blair. The rest of my apprenticeship was on the domestic housing side. I left school in 1977.

Spent a couple of years visiting Kintyre with my family and absolutely loved it. The people are exactly as you have described and your videos are a credit to you. Great story about a great area. Thanks.

Thanks for sharing this with us Brian. A wonderful summary of your time at the "yerd".

Enjoyed getting to know about your life and how much this place means to you, see you in the next 😊

Nostalgia for me in tonight’s video. My dad worked at the yerd as a welder from it opened until it shut along with various other family members. I’m looking forward to showing my dad this video it’ll be a trip down memory lane. It’s great youve got so many memories of the yerd and the men that worked there. Thanks

Brilliant self-reflection. Thank you.

Great nostalgic video , i to left school in 77 and started work as an apprentice on a construction company and as you say this was the 70s , they were very different times , most of the older men had served in the 2nd world war and I was fascinated by there story’s about those times , most blokes were decent but some had some very strange ways but looking back I’m guessing some had seen some awful things during the war , like you it gave me a grounding and I became self employed I’m my trade and I’m still doing that now at 62 , Iv lots of memories but one us is my parents were very old fashioned in a good way and I can honestly say I’d never heard a grown man say the f word till I started on that company , yes I was pretty naive but like all of us you knew when to listen to the older tradesmen and I learnt so much which has helped me earn a living for all these years , best wishes & keep the videos coming

Thoroughly enjoying following your trips, but this one was brilliant xx

Thank you for sharing your story with us. If I could give you 10 thumbs up I would. My own formative years on the building sites of Glasgow were similar and I owe a lot to the men who used humour, kindness and camaraderie to help me grown up and make an often harsh job seem almost enjoyable. Cheers. Jim.

Loved hearing your experiences as an apprentice. Such a good video - I could feel your emotion when explaining what the time spent there meant to you. Looking forward to your next vlog.

Loved the video .

You are an excellent story teller. More please.

Very interesting video. Good stories.👍

Nice wee video Brian ! Just seems like yesterday we started the yerd 😊

Brilliant we video mate bringing back so many memories of the toon 😁 . Thank we were in the same school. I went to the coop butchers when I left the grammar.

Hi thank you so much. This is history from the seventies you are telling nobody is doing it. I worked in Selby shipyard North yorkshire and it was like you said. The men liked a crack. We had the best times. Hope you're both ok. Please keep going with the videos. Ps Selby shipyard is derelict. We built North Sea supply ships in the seventies one was the Seaforth challenger anyway hope you're both feeling better love Rog and Jan *

brilliant

we have a new video up covering arbroath park4night Rob think you might enjoy it. stay Safe and take care. Haste ye back