We delve into The Oban Times archives to bring you faces and places from yesteryears
Reader David Guest sent this photograph from 1959 and said: ‘It shows the Kerrera Ferry launch and slip, and was taken by my aunt, Dr Mary Guest. The ferryman, Mr Beaton, holds the launch by dint of a boot on the gunwhale, as he habitually chats to the passengers disembarking. Beaton, who hailed originally from the Outer Isles, was a tremendously friendly and helpful man. During the busy summer he used to let me, as a 12-year-old, take the tiller as we plied back and forth. As another sign of trust in these times, Beaton’s drums of vapourising paraffin lie by the Gallanach roadside with an unlocked tap. The scene is completed by the Ardbhan crags and Oban in the distance.’