The first time in (then) living memory curling had been managed on this part of the loch. Photograph: Here We Are.
TAKEN in 1909, this remarkable photograph was taken on an ice-covered upper Loch Fyne near Cairndow. The photo is part of an extensive archive held by the Here We Are community enterprise at Cairndow. It depicts a group of 16 men – perhaps four rinks – and a boy enjoying a rare game of curling on the frozen loch surface.
The back of the original photo is signed by ‘H McI’, who is known to have been Harry McIntyre – a joiner who came to work at Ardkinglas in 1906, left in 1934 and died in 1936.