Albert Victor Gardner
Archive, Norman Mowatt, People of the Picture House
Image (zoom): architectural plans drawn by AV Gardner for Campbeltown Picture House Ltd. (1912), courtesy of Argyll & Bute…
Have you seen Bostock in Kilts?
Mr N.C. BOSTOCK in LONDON, The success of modern Times. The cry is “Have you seen Bostock in Kilts?” The…
Investigating New Archive Documents
The volunteer archive team was recently informed that some documents had been donated to the Picture House archive. We were…
Audrey Comes to Campbeltown
On Sunday 11th September just before 5pm we went round to the Picture House in Campbeltown to see The Vintage Mobile Cinema,…
100 Years Ago … A Picture House Shareholder Becomes a Hero !
Our attention was recently drawn to the “From Our Files” Feature in the Campbeltown Courier of 28thJuly 2017. After reading…
When the Big Tin Box was Opened We Found People and Stories
The Raiders of the Lost Archive project started to come to life for me when Robin came to speak for…
Picture House Memories, American Serials, Charlie Chaplin and The Vampire
One of the sources of information we have been using in conjunction with documents and other materials found in the…
From Picture House Managers to King Solomon’s Mines and The Halls of Montezuma!
This week I have been finding out about the second manager of the Picture House, Mr Duncan Sinclair. Born near…
The Operatic Superstar and Rob Roy MacGregor
As we continue to explore the adverts from the Campbeltown Courier from the years before the Picture House opened we…
Fascinating Characters and Biographies.
From the first moments we started looking through the Picture House archive it…