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At The Oban Times we live and work amidst stunning scenery and we have captured it for you in all its glory, day and night, throughout the year.
JANUARY
Stob Daimh and Ben Cruachan, Argyll
FEBRUARY
Bothy overlooking Loch Linnhe, Kilmalieu
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MARCH
Connel Bridge over Loch Etive, Argyll
Here is a gift for a friend far from their native home or a fond reminder for you of a holiday here amongst the lochs, glens, mountains and shores. The Oban Times Calendar will bring you a little bit of the West Highlands every day of the year.
APRIL
MAY
JUNE
River Strontian, Ariundle Oakwood, Strontian
Pap of Glencoe and Glencoe village, Lochaber
McCaig’s Tower, Oban harbour, Argyll
River Orchy at the head of Loch Awe
Traigh an t-Suidhe beach, Isle of Iona
Dunaverty Rock, Kintyre
Flooded slate quarries on Easdale Island
Fairy Bridge of Glen Creran, Appin
JULY
OCTOBER
ENVELOPE INCLUDED INSIDE
AUGUST
NOVEMBER
COVER: Lochan na H-Achlaise, Rannoch Moor, Highlands
SEPTEMBER
DECEMBER
Lochan na H-Achlaise, Rannoch Moor
Frank Nowikowski / Alamy Stock Photo
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Stob Daimh and Ben Cruachan, Argyll Craig Aitchison
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Cruachan under a white snood, the wave of the high triple crest ever breaking and gleaming on the horizon. My Youth’s Horizon – George Campbell Hay
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The Oban Times is a local, weekly newspaper, which was founded in 1861. The newspaper is believed to cover a larger area than any other weekly newspaper in Britain and is known to Scots throughout the world.
Lochavullin Estate, Oban, Argyll, PA34 4HB Tel: 01631 568000 Fax: 01631 568001 Website: www.obantimes.co.uk
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Stob Daimh and Ben Cruachan, Argyll Craig Aitchison
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Cruachan under a white snood, the wave of the high triple crest ever breaking and gleaming on the horizon. My Youth’s Horizon – George Campbell Hay
16/05/2022 09:40:42
The Oban Times is a local, weekly newspaper, which was founded in 1861. The newspaper is believed to cover a larger area than any other weekly newspaper in Britain and is known to Scots throughout the world.
Lochavullin Estate, Oban, Argyll, PA34 4HB Tel: 01631 568000 Fax: 01631 568001 Website: www.obantimes.co.uk
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Autumn morning at the Bothy overlooking Loch Linnhe, Kilmalieu
This is the land the sunset washes.
Steven Marshall
The Sea of Sunset – Emily Dickinson
November
December Monday
Tuesday
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2 9 16 23 30
January
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Boxing Day
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The ice from Rannoch and the mountain-tops gouged out lochs and valleys as it found ways to the sea through rocks weakened by old earth-shifts or spilt by the frosts of centuries.
Lochan na H-Achlaise, Rannoch Moor, Highlands Frank Nowikowski / Alamy Stock Photo
Argyll the Enduring Heartland – Marion Campbell
January
February Monday
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Connel Bridge over Loch Etive, Argyll
When completed, this bridge had a wider span than any other railway bridge in Britain except the Forth Bridge; designed by Sir John Wolfe Barry and built by Arrol’s Bridge and Roof Co for the Callander and Oban Railway.
Richard Johnson / Alamy Stock Photo
Canmore
October
November Monday
Tuesday
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Rivers flow not past, but through us; tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fibre in our bodies, making them sing and glide.
River Strontian, Ariundle Oakwood, Strontian Steven Marshall
Mountain Thoughts - John Muir
February
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Mothering Sunday
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Fairy Bridge of Glen Creran, Appin, Argyll
I never loiter in Appin but I keep looking over my shoulder. For there is still an aura of ghosts about its glens and hills.
Grant Willoughby
The Land of Lorne – T Ratcliffe Barnett
September
October Monday
Tuesday
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Pap of Glencoe and Glencoe village beside Loch Leven, Lochaber Iain Masterton / Alamy Stock Photo
To understand a landscape one must learn its bones. Rock-gorge and flood plain, ice-smoothed hill or upthrust ridge record the earth’s experience like wrinkles in an old face. Argyll the Enduring Heartland – Marion Campbell.
March
April Monday
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Tuesday
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2 9 16 23 30
M T W T
F S S
3 10 17 24 31
1 8 15 22 29
5 12 19 26
4 11 18 25
5 12 19 26
Saturday
2 9 16 23 30
3 10 17 24 31
4 11 18 25
6 13 20 27
7 14 21 28
Sunday
1
2
8
9
Good Friday
10
7 14 21 28
1 8 15 22 29
May
F S S
Easter Sunday
11
12
13
14
15
16
18
19
20
21
22
23
Easter Monday
17
St. George’s Day
24
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25
26
27
28
29
30
16/05/2022 09:41:16
Flooded slate quarries on Easdale Island on one of the slate islands, Argyll
In 1744, seven crews of four to five men produced 660,500 slates at Easdale and, in 1750, increased output to more than 1.1 million slates.
Iain Masterton / Alamy Stock Photo
Argyll 173-1850 – Robert A A McGeachy
August
September Monday
Tuesday
M T W T 7 14 21 28
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
1 8 15 22 29
2 9 16 23 30
3 10 17 24 31
October
F S S 4 11 18 25
5 12 19 26
6 13 20 27
M T W T
F S S
2 9 16 23 30
6 13 20 27
Saturday
4 11 18 25
5 12 19 26
7 14 21 28
1 8 15 22 29
Sunday
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
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3 10 17 24 31
16/05/2022 09:41:44
This miniature Colosseum, which a local banker in a classical moment erected as a family memorial, gives a distinct and alien character to the place.
McCaig’s Tower, Oban harbour, Argyll Paul Harris / AWL Images
In Scotland Again – H V Morton
April
May Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
June
M T W T
F S S
3 10 17 24
7 14 21 28
Friday
4 11 18 25
5 12 19 26
6 13 20 27
1 8 15 22 29
2 9 16 23 30
M T W T 5 12 19 26
Saturday
7 14 21 28
1 8 15 22 29
2 9 16 23 30
3 10 17 24
4 11 18 25
Sunday
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
1
6 13 20 27
F S S
Early May Bank Holiday
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Dunaverty Rock on Dunaverty Bay Beach on Kintyre peninsula
It will be known to posterity as the site of as disgraceful, bloody, and indiscriminate a massacre as the pen of history has ever recorded.
Iain Masterton / Alamy Stock Photo
Highways and Byways in the West Highlands – Seton Gordon
July
August Monday
M T W T 3 10 17 24 31
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
4 11 18 25
5 12 19 26
6 13 20 27
September
F S S 7 14 21 28
1 8 15 22 29
2 9 16 23 30
M T W T
F S S
4 11 18 25
1 8 15 22 29
Saturday
6 13 20 27
7 14 21 28
2 9 16 23 30
3 10 17 24
Sunday
1
2
3
4
5
6
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
7
5 12 19 26
Summer Bank Holiday (S.)
Bank Holiday (E. NI. W.)
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The West Highland Line and the A85 cross the mouth of the River Orchy at the head of Loch Awe.
The walk was pleasant, through fields with hedgerows, the greenest fields we had seen in Scotland.
Richard Johnson / Alamy Stock Photo
Recollections of a Tour made in Scotland – Dorothy Wordsworth
May
June Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
July
M T W T
F S S
1 8 15 22 29
5 12 19 26
Friday
2 9 16 23 30
3 10 17 24 31
4 11 18 25
6 13 20 27
7 14 21 28
M T W T
F S S
3 10 17 24 31
7 14 21 28
Saturday
4 11 18 25
5 12 19 26
6 13 20 27
1 8 15 22 29
2 9 16 23 30
Sunday
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
Father’s Day
19
20
21
22
23
26
27
28
29
30
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24
25
16/05/2022 09:41:27
Traigh an t-Suidhe beach, Isle of Iona
Columba seemed to follow us at every step as we trod with reverence those ancient haunts of peace in the silence of that summer afternoon.
David Cheshire / Alamy Stock Photo
The Land of Lorne – T Ratcliffe Barnett
June
July Monday
M T W T 5 12 19 26
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
6 13 20 27
7 14 21 28
1 8 15 22 29
August
F S S 2 9 16 23 30
3 10 17 24
4 11 18 25
M T W T 7 14 21 28
Saturday
1 8 15 22 29
2 9 16 23 30
3 10 17 24 31
F S S 4 11 18 25
5 12 19 26
6 13 20 27
Sunday
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
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16/05/2022 09:41:38
Traigh an t-Suidhe beach, Isle of Iona
Columba seemed to follow us at every step as we trod with reverence those ancient haunts of peace in the silence of that summer afternoon.
David Cheshire / Alamy Stock Photo
The Land of Lorne – T Ratcliffe Barnett
June
July Monday
M T W T 5 12 19 26
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
6 13 20 27
7 14 21 28
1 8 15 22 29
August
F S S 2 9 16 23 30
3 10 17 24
4 11 18 25
M T W T 7 14 21 28
Saturday
1 8 15 22 29
2 9 16 23 30
3 10 17 24 31
F S S 4 11 18 25
5 12 19 26
6 13 20 27
Sunday
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
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16/05/2022 09:41:38
The West Highland Line and the A85 cross the mouth of the River Orchy at the head of Loch Awe.
The walk was pleasant, through fields with hedgerows, the greenest fields we had seen in Scotland.
Richard Johnson / Alamy Stock Photo
Recollections of a Tour made in Scotland – Dorothy Wordsworth
May
June Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
July
M T W T
F S S
1 8 15 22 29
5 12 19 26
Friday
2 9 16 23 30
3 10 17 24 31
4 11 18 25
6 13 20 27
7 14 21 28
M T W T
F S S
3 10 17 24 31
7 14 21 28
Saturday
4 11 18 25
5 12 19 26
6 13 20 27
1 8 15 22 29
2 9 16 23 30
Sunday
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
Father’s Day
19
20
21
22
23
26
27
28
29
30
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24
25
16/05/2022 09:41:27
Dunaverty Rock on Dunaverty Bay Beach on Kintyre peninsula
It will be known to posterity as the site of as disgraceful, bloody, and indiscriminate a massacre as the pen of history has ever recorded.
Iain Masterton / Alamy Stock Photo
Highways and Byways in the West Highlands – Seton Gordon
July
August Monday
M T W T 3 10 17 24 31
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
4 11 18 25
5 12 19 26
6 13 20 27
September
F S S 7 14 21 28
1 8 15 22 29
2 9 16 23 30
M T W T
F S S
4 11 18 25
1 8 15 22 29
Saturday
6 13 20 27
7 14 21 28
2 9 16 23 30
3 10 17 24
Sunday
1
2
3
4
5
6
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
7
5 12 19 26
Summer Bank Holiday (S.)
Bank Holiday (E. NI. W.)
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16/05/2022 09:41:42
This miniature Colosseum, which a local banker in a classical moment erected as a family memorial, gives a distinct and alien character to the place.
McCaig’s Tower, Oban harbour, Argyll Paul Harris / AWL Images
In Scotland Again – H V Morton
April
May Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
June
M T W T
F S S
3 10 17 24
7 14 21 28
Friday
4 11 18 25
5 12 19 26
6 13 20 27
1 8 15 22 29
2 9 16 23 30
M T W T 5 12 19 26
Saturday
7 14 21 28
1 8 15 22 29
2 9 16 23 30
3 10 17 24
4 11 18 25
Sunday
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
1
6 13 20 27
F S S
Early May Bank Holiday
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16/05/2022 09:41:24
Flooded slate quarries on Easdale Island on one of the slate islands, Argyll
In 1744, seven crews of four to five men produced 660,500 slates at Easdale and, in 1750, increased output to more than 1.1 million slates.
Iain Masterton / Alamy Stock Photo
Argyll 173-1850 – Robert A A McGeachy
August
September Monday
Tuesday
M T W T 7 14 21 28
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
1 8 15 22 29
2 9 16 23 30
3 10 17 24 31
October
F S S 4 11 18 25
5 12 19 26
6 13 20 27
M T W T
F S S
2 9 16 23 30
6 13 20 27
Saturday
4 11 18 25
5 12 19 26
7 14 21 28
1 8 15 22 29
Sunday
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
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24
25
26
27
28
29
30
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3 10 17 24 31
16/05/2022 09:41:44
Pap of Glencoe and Glencoe village beside Loch Leven, Lochaber Iain Masterton / Alamy Stock Photo
To understand a landscape one must learn its bones. Rock-gorge and flood plain, ice-smoothed hill or upthrust ridge record the earth’s experience like wrinkles in an old face. Argyll the Enduring Heartland – Marion Campbell.
March
April Monday
3
M T W T 6 13 20 27
Tuesday
4
Wednesday
5
Thursday
6
Friday
7
2 9 16 23 30
M T W T
F S S
3 10 17 24 31
1 8 15 22 29
5 12 19 26
4 11 18 25
5 12 19 26
Saturday
2 9 16 23 30
3 10 17 24 31
4 11 18 25
6 13 20 27
7 14 21 28
Sunday
1
2
8
9
Good Friday
10
7 14 21 28
1 8 15 22 29
May
F S S
Easter Sunday
11
12
13
14
15
16
18
19
20
21
22
23
Easter Monday
17
St. George’s Day
24
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25
26
27
28
29
30
16/05/2022 09:41:16
Fairy Bridge of Glen Creran, Appin, Argyll
I never loiter in Appin but I keep looking over my shoulder. For there is still an aura of ghosts about its glens and hills.
Grant Willoughby
The Land of Lorne – T Ratcliffe Barnett
September
October Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
M T W T
F S S
4 11 18 25
1 8 15 22 29
Friday
5 12 19 26
6 13 20 27
7 14 21 28
2 9 16 23 30
3 10 17 24
November M T W T 6 13 20 27
Saturday
7 14 21 28
1 8 15 22 29
2 9 16 23 30
F S S 3 10 17 24
4 11 18 25
5 12 19 26
Sunday
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
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Hallowe’en
31
16/05/2022 09:41:46
Rivers flow not past, but through us; tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fibre in our bodies, making them sing and glide.
River Strontian, Ariundle Oakwood, Strontian Steven Marshall
Mountain Thoughts - John Muir
February
March Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
1
Thursday
April
M T W T
F S S
1 6 7 8 13 14 15 20 21 22 27 28
3 10 17 24
Friday
2 9 16 23
4 11 18 25
5 12 19 26
M T W T
F S S
3 10 17 24
7 14 21 28
Saturday
4 11 18 25
5 12 19 26
6 13 20 27
1 8 15 22 29
2 9 16 23 30
Sunday
2
3
4
5
St. David’s Day
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
St. Patrick’s Day
20
21
22
23
24
27
28
29
30
31
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Mothering Sunday
25
26
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Connel Bridge over Loch Etive, Argyll
When completed, this bridge had a wider span than any other railway bridge in Britain except the Forth Bridge; designed by Sir John Wolfe Barry and built by Arrol’s Bridge and Roof Co for the Callander and Oban Railway.
Richard Johnson / Alamy Stock Photo
Canmore
October
November Monday
Tuesday
M T W T 2 9 16 23 30
Wednesday
1
Thursday
2
Friday
3
3 10 17 24 31
4 11 18 25
5 12 19 26
December
F S S 6 13 20 27
7 14 21 28
1 8 15 22 29
M T W T
F S S
4 11 18 25
1 8 15 22 29
Saturday
4
5 12 19 26
6 13 20 27
7 14 21 28
2 9 16 23 30
3 10 17 24 31
Sunday
5
Guy Fawkes Night
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Remembrance Sunday
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
St. Andrew’s Day
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The ice from Rannoch and the mountain-tops gouged out lochs and valleys as it found ways to the sea through rocks weakened by old earth-shifts or spilt by the frosts of centuries.
Lochan na H-Achlaise, Rannoch Moor, Highlands Frank Nowikowski / Alamy Stock Photo
Argyll the Enduring Heartland – Marion Campbell
January
February Monday
Tuesday
M T W T 2 9 16 23 30
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
3 10 17 24 31
4 11 18 25
5 12 19 26
March
F S S 6 13 20 27
7 14 21 28
1 8 15 22 29
M T W T 6 13 20 27
Saturday
7 14 21 28
1 8 15 22 29
2 9 16 23 30
F S S 3 10 17 24 31
4 11 18 25
5 12 19 26
Sunday
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
21
22
23
24
25
26
Shrove Tuesday
Ash Wednesday
Valentine’s Day
20
27
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Autumn morning at the Bothy overlooking Loch Linnhe, Kilmalieu
This is the land the sunset washes.
Steven Marshall
The Sea of Sunset – Emily Dickinson
November
December Monday
Tuesday
M T W T 6 13 20 27
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
7 14 21 28
1 8 15 22 29
2 9 16 23 30
January
F S S
M T W T
F S S
3 10 17 24
1 8 15 22 29
5 12 19 26
4 11 18 25
5 12 19 26
Saturday
3 10 17 24 31
4 11 18 25
6 13 20 27
7 14 21 28
Sunday
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
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27
28
29
30
31
Christmas Day
Boxing Day
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At The Oban Times we live and work amidst stunning scenery and we have captured it for you in all its glory, day and night, throughout the year.
JANUARY
Stob Daimh and Ben Cruachan, Argyll
FEBRUARY
Bothy overlooking Loch Linnhe, Kilmalieu
MARCH
Connel Bridge over Loch Etive, Argyll
Here is a gift for a friend far from their native home or a fond reminder for you of a holiday here amongst the lochs, glens, mountains and shores. The Oban Times Calendar will bring you a little bit of the West Highlands every day of the year.
APRIL
Fairy Bridge of Glen Creran, Appin
JULY
Traigh an t-Suidhe beach, Isle of Iona
OCTOBER
Pap of Glencoe and Glencoe village, Lochaber
ENVELOPE INCLUDED INSIDE
MAY
Flooded slate quarries on Easdale Island
AUGUST
River Orchy at the head of Loch Awe
NOVEMBER
River Strontian, Ariundle Oakwood, Strontian
COVER: Lochan na H-Achlaise, Rannoch Moor, Highlands
Frank Nowikowski / Alamy Stock Photo
For further calendar orders call 01778 392014 or visit www.scottishcalendars.co.uk Published in Scotland. Copyright The Oban Times. Established 1861. www.obantimes.co.uk
JUNE
Dunaverty Rock, Kintyre
SEPTEMBER
McCaig’s Tower, Oban harbour, Argyll
DECEMBER
Lochan na H-Achlaise, Rannoch Moor