A CONSIDERATE Kintyre group dedicated to helping the elderly has met for the 200th time. The Campbeltown Benevolent Society (CBS), founded in December 1816 in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, held its bicentennial annual general meeting at the start of February.
Originally known as the Society for the Relief of the Poor, it addressed the appalling poverty which existed in Campbeltown at the time, feeding the hungry and bringing succour to the ill and dying.
Minutes from the first committee meeting, held on February 4, 1817, detail the squalor in which some Campbeltonians lived.