TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO Friday March 21 1997

Kintyre Nursing Home officially opened

Argyll’s newest nursing home was officially opened in Campbeltown.

The £812,000 Kintyre Nursing Home, which is situated in Hall Street overlooking Campbeltown Loch, was formally opened by Councillor George McMillan.

Speaking during the opening of the new home, Mr McMillan said that if the care in the home was as good as the building itself, no one would have anything to worry about.

He went on to explain that getting the home built had not always been an easy task.

‘There were some difficulties about the site because of the ground conditions but there were also other problems with the planners about this site because it’s a very prominent site and it’s next door to some very fine buildings on the left-hand side. It was a problem getting the planners to agree to the various shapes and types of materials that were to be used, but we overcame all these things and got the go-ahead.’