The Invergordon Archive

Hello Arthur, The LP being shown in the picture is the first Rolling Stones album (I have a copy of it!).
I notice it also appears in picture #807 - Morris is holding it on his lap. The record came out in 1964 so your pic can be no earlier than that. I have spoken to my sister but she has no recollection of this shot being taken. Between us we reckon it is late 1964 or early 1965.

As a fully paid up member of the Stones Fan Club at the time I can confirm that the album was released in April 1964. I have spoken to Jeanette on the phone and she can't remember the photo being taken but she does remember ordering the LP from Roddy MacKenzie's (Electric Shop). I lived in the house between the Rhu Hotel and the old Post Office (57 High Street, known as 'Varadero'). I first got to know Jeanette when her Dad ran the bakery (part of the Rhu Hotel) next door to us. I later worked with her at the Smelter. I wonder which film was showing at the pictures when the photo was taken!

The film on show looks like '55 Days in Peking' made in 1963.

The date on the back of my photo is 1965!

Hello Arthur, Morris took this and the other photos of us girls in 1965 - I think he may have had a new camera as I seem to have a few photos of us all too.
Please say Hello to Jeanette for me Bill and hello also to Keith V.

I was thrilled to come across this photo of the beautiful young Carol Beavis, exactly as I remember her. I met her around the time this photo was taken, when I travelled to Scotland from my then home town of Birmingham. We started a little teenage romance and kept in touch for a while by phone calls to phone boxes at pre-agreed times. Distance eventually did for us though. I am 72 now (2019), married and living in Sheffield, but I would love to say (an innocent, old time sakes) hello to Carol if she is still in Invergordon.

The beautiful Carol Beavis is now the slightly older (but still beautiful) Carol Maclennan, and living in Evanton, along with myself, 4 cats a dog and 50 chickens. I will mention the name John Taylor to her

Thank you John Taylor for the compliment ! I’m still around that area about 6 miles away, married and a Granny !
Where did we meet ?

Hi Carol, Thanks to your husband for passing my name and message on to you. Of course, I'm glad to hear your life has turned out well, as mine has too. I'm a grandparent as well, but due to marrying a woman who had a daughter from a previous marriage. Unfortunately, my memory's not great these days so I can't tell you where exactly you and I met. I think it was close to the port but all I can remember is the two of us laying together talking (and smooching) on a shallow, finely-mown grass slope! There was a photo of us I once had, but now I can't find it. I was travelling with two other Birmingham lads and I think you were with a girl friend, so all these must have been nearby. Myself and my friends got a dawn run out to sea with one of the local fishing boats, so we must have been around for at least two days. Afraid I can't even remember the exact year this happened but it must have been around the mid 1960's. It would be good to hear if you can remember anything about me/us, but if you'd rather leave things now we've had the little satisfaction of saying hi, I would perfectly understand. My wife and I are actually off for a week's holiday in Devon from tomorrow, so no hurry for you to respond. Please at least enjoy my compliment about your looks. Odd how things stick in one's mind, but I never forgot your thick head of hair gathered around your lovely face, which is why I was so pleased when I came across the photo of you on this webpage.

Think it was 1964 John and I would have been 16 but also have a poor memory now, it was so long ago. Maybe if I saw a photo of you then I’d remember but do remember your name.

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