Forestry Memories

Inverlussa House in Achnamara

Inverlussa House in Achnamara

Date Added: 18 August 2009 Contributor: Gordon Urquhart Year of Photo: 1976 Picture No: 515

Drawing by Andrew L Hunter of INverlussa House in Achnamara, where Frances Plummer, who provided the drawing stayed, whilst a teacher at Achnamara, 1975 - 76. Frances continues...
"I stayed at Inverlussa House (or the Manse House) where Mary Moir, the local Councillor, did bed and breakfast and sold antiques. Her husband, Lennie, was one of the earliest oyster farmers on Loch Sween at the time and lived on the island opposite. I remember a remarkable and beautiful crisp December night - with full moon - when Lennie rowed me to shore after I had delivered some Christmas presents.
I had trained as a schoolteacher in Bath (originally I'm from London) and held my first ever teaching post at Lochgilphead High School. I drove in those days and learned the art of single-track roads. There was, of course, the fateful day of the 360 degree spin on black ice - Hughie and the boys at Bellanoch Garage reckoned I had a charmed life!
I loved Achnamara and got on with many in the village - some of my own school pupils took me swimming in the Loch and where I also learned a lot about midges."

See picture 8 for a vigourous discussion about Achnamara life.

3 Comments

You were my English teacher in Lochgilphead Secondary School and I am now a gardener - one of my first jobs has been to sort out the walled garden at Inverlussa House! I am currently working there and love the place. Comment left on 08 May 2011 at 00:15 by Susan Brown
This is probably a long shot but if anyone is still in touch with Frances please pass on my details to her and say I would so love to hear from her again after all these years. I lived at Inverlussa as well at the time and Frances and I had been in the same Halls together when students in London before she came north. My email is at deryck23@yahoo.com and I am on FB at https://www.facebook.com/deryck.beaumont Comment left on 03 September 2022 at 15:11 by Deryck de Maine Beaumont
I stayed at Inverlussa House in the early 1980's as a self catering holiday. I remember the couple who lived in the caravan in the grounds and did the housekeeping etc-Jimmy and Flo?
Had a lovely holiday there, wish I had taken photographs though as it was such a lovely place to stay. Comment left on 22 April 2024 at 18:35 by Dianne Illingworth
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