With Largs Food Festival being held this month, it was perhaps apt that we posted a picture of Largs Junior Chamber enjoying a first class meal on the shore from the 1980s.

With Largs Food Festival being held this month, it was perhaps apt that we posted a picture of Largs Junior Chamber enjoying a first class meal on the shore from the 1980s.

As the town is gears up for a spectacular two-day feast of fun with cookery demonstrations, live music, food trails, and fun for all the family, on 23 and 24 May, it is amusing to see some recognisable faces donning dinner jackets and heading to the beach for a toast to Largs in this nostalgic picture.

The event was a ‘Titanic Dinner’ to raise funds for the RNLI, and it looks like the tide was coming in!

Well-kent faces in the picture include Walter Brown, Arthur Hill, a soaked Jim Duncan, Sean McManus Fiona Brown, Alan Lewis, Catherine Brown, and Brian McMillan, to name but a few.

Sean McManus recalled it well: “It was a very cold day!

Fiona Brown said: “I remember some of us were wise enough to have wetsuits on underneath!” So there is plenty food for thought for publicity opportunities for the forthcoming ‘Largs Food Fest’! It will be on dry land with a marquee on the esplanade, looking out towards the beach!

Ian Dalgleish sent us in a picture on Facebook of the new resurfaced cycle track between Fairlie and Hunterston. He said: “The cycle path south of Fairlie is being widened and resurfaced. The work is now almost complete. I took this photo close to the Hunterston roundabout on 7 May.” And George Crawford captured a marvellous close-up of a heron visiting Fairlie bay recently. He said: “A beautiful common grey heron in Fairlie on the afternoon of 4 May.” And during the recent naval exercises on the Clyde, Ian Dalgleish sent in a picture of the HNLMS De Zeven Provincian (F802) in the Largs channel. Ian said: “This is the first ship of the De Zeven Provincian-class air defence and command frigates in service with the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN).” ‘Titanic Dinner’ on the shore Dutch warship by Ian Dalgleish Heron by George Crawford New cycle track by Ian Dalgleish