High winds caused snow drifts on Argyll Street, Dunoon.
Photograph: Castle House Museum.
WHILE the ‘Beast of the East’ raged across the UK, forcing the central belt of Scotland into lockdown, Argyll remained more or less untouched.
Despite a dumping of the white stuff across Cowal on Thursday, the chill in the air and the lack of bread in shops across most of Argyll were the only signs of the havoc created by the snowy weather in the rest of the country.