The Largs and Millport Weekly News turned the clocks back to the end of the swinging sixties to happy times. A whole selection appear on our Facebook site including the Brisbane Queen floats, Fairlie Youth Club and much more.

Another popular picture was the Largs Boys Brigade team pictured at Bowen Craig in Largs which included plenty of familiar faces.

Robin Mills said: “I remember those guys. I left school and went to Glasgow University in 1969. That’s when Neil Armstrong took his “one small step” James Dippie was grateful for the photo and said: “Yes, those were good days when I enjoyed doing my best at the football. I’ll say now something that I wish I’d said a long time ago - a huge thanks to Gordon Law for giving so much time to enable us to enjoy this.” The picture included Alan McIntyre, Ian McLeod, Ronnie Armstrong, Alan Little, Crawford Boyd (captain), Ken Eadie, Mr Gordon Law, Front Row - Alex Hunter, James Dippie, Alastair Williamson, Tom Stokes, Alan Rodger, in front - the George Brown Trophy won in Millport.

And while it was one small step for Neil Armstrong on the moon, the arrival of big industry and Hunterston was a giant leap for the local economy.

Another popular photo was the Springfield Hotel which was celebrating the opening of its new cocktail lounge with an advert feature in the Largs and Millport Weekly.

The article read: “As will be seen, it provides an informal atmosphere with a fishing theme. The adjoining lounge has been incorporated as part of the bar. Pictured at the new bar is Mr and Mrs Alan Coe, the manager and manageress. The hotel is owned by the Nuclear Power Group. the consortium that is building Hunterston ‘B’ Power Station.

“While the hotel is used on occasion to accommodate executive and technical people visiting Hunterston, it is a public hotel with ample accomodation for holidaymakers and others. There are 35 bedrooms. There was an informal presentation of the new bar on Friday evening when Mr Cyril Rees, resident engineer at Hunterston ‘B’, and other representatives of firms in the consortium were present.” Stephen Weiss said that it was a beautiful picture of the popular bar facility at the Springfield, which was demolished in the late 1990s.

Lesley Crawford said: “I remember pinging the strings on the fishes!” And Kyle Fulton said: “I never realised that the Springfield Hotel was owned by NPG.” Another popular picture on our Facebook was a ‘well cared for’ Puffer - the VIC 32 - when it was just outside the breakwater at Largs Yacht Haven some time last year. The photographer Bill Mullen said: “It is a rare thing to see these days but Puffers were once ‘vital’ to many of the remote places around the Clyde and other adjoining waters. How times have changed.” Sheila Merson enthused: “It is great that some of these are preserved and still in use.” Yachting publishers Peggy Bawn Press were suitably impressed, and sparked memories of Para Handy, as it posted on their website : ”This picture must have been taken during The Fife Regatta, surely... She was looking chust sublime; finest in the tred.” And an old Largs school shot from 1954 was provided by Archie Burleigh and included many well-kent local faces including Gus McDonald: Billy Hibbard: Ronnie Chisolm: Ian McConnel David (Moon) Hibbard: David McCartney:Neville Honeyman and Jack Howitson.