A holiday in September 1929 to Whiting Bay in the Isle of Arran, Scotland

lovely film of a family holiday from a bygone age - look at the semaphore signals on the end of Whiting Bay pier.

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• semaphore
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• holidays

[Lanarker]

Okay. I tracked down the house. It is at Largymore, just South of Whiting Bay. It still stands as does its curiously roofed neighbour you can just see at 1.26. The holiday house at the start of the video is the fifth or sixth house on the right after the caravan park as you drive South out of Whiting Bay. It now has a large fir tree in its front garden and a lamppost stands across the A841 at the end of its driveway! Google Streetmap shows it quite clearly. Got any more old Arran footage?

[Lanarker]

The scene of the family dancing on the road was filmed on the A841 a few miles North of the village of Sannox in the North end of the island. The waterfalls in the hills behind the dancers are on the upper stretches of the North Sannox Burn. The very first few frames of the fishing look very much like the Iorsa Water which flows in to the Kilbrannan Sound at Dougarie Lodge on the West coast of the island. Have you identified the holiday house at the start of the clip?

[610210jc1]

I thoroughly enjoyed this. My parents and grandparents used to visit Whiting Bay throughout the twentieth century (grandparents even earlier than this film) as did I from the 1960s onwards .I was last there in November 2010 and Whiting Bay is a lot quieter now than it was in 1929.

My mum will love the film of the steamer and Whiting Bay pier. She wasn't alive in 1929, but she has memories of holidays in the 1930s

[TheSandypringle]

I am sure i saw sandy kerr ,the laird of auchencairn in that film!

[Jinglylenny]

See the roads are in better condition than

they are now....