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Sunday, 21 November 2010
The Mermaid
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There was a merchant from Dumbarton. It happened that the merchant and his crew left the rock, and had been at sea for a long long ti...
Saturday, 30 October 2010
The Enchanted Cap
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So, this guy turns up on the Greenock dock, and he's keen to get doon the road tae Largs fairly sharpish. And time's knockin' on...
The Ballad of Auld Dunrod
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Inverclyde was hoaching with witches and supernatural beasties in the 16th and 17th Century...but none were more feared, than the evil warlo...
Malkie And The Bogle
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There once was a farmer lived up Kilmacolm way, and his name was Malcolm McPhee. He was neither a very good farmer, nor a very happy farmer....
Wednesday, 13 October 2010
Terror of The Catman
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A ragged vagrant terrifying the town's children while looking after dozens of stray cats...or a fictional bogeyman from our industria...
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Thursday, 27 May 2010
Captain Kidd - Greenock Folk Hero.
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Captain William Kidd was hanged on 23 May 1701. Was he a bloodthirsty swashbuckling pirate who was born just off West Blackhall Stre...
Thursday, 15 April 2010
Greenock by William Wordsworth
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We have not passed into a doleful City, We who were led to-day down a grim dell, By some too boldly named “the Jaws of Hell” Where be the wr...
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