RE: Scallywag1 Feb 2020 15:20
Hi Wasred , Believe it or not my brother in law and I built two adjacent houses on the main street in Creetown back in the seventies, no's 30 and 32.
The whiskey stores were known then as Solway Precast Concrete and were the main employers in the village
The original Whickerman film (1973) was filmed in the Wigtownshire area and includes scenes shot in the bar of the Ellangowan Hotel down at the village square. Britt Ekland didn't enamour herself with the locals describing them as ''uncouth and uneducated'' !
Next time you are there take a run over to Burrowhead Holiday park where some traces of the famous closing burning scenes are still visible on the headland and you will be standing on the closed point to the Isle Of Man in the UK just 22 miles away!
Small world eh!