Furnace for Argyll

A night to remember - the excitement of unique items that would not be available to buy but are on offer here in a once-in-a-lifetime chance gets the pulse beating. Read the rest of this entry »

Our own Homecoming Week Programme is now finalised so here are the details: Read the rest of this entry »

If you have any goods for the auction.Friday 3th July 7.30pm. Please contact Gill Telfer,Liz Train, Andrea Henderson or Heather Clark with any goodies you may have.

Quiz in Furnace Village Hall at 7.30pm on Friday 8th May. Proceeds to Hall funds. Usual raffle - prizes welcome.

This Friday, 24th April, there’s a quiz in Minard Fire Station to raise funds for this first class local volunteer service.

Furnace folk have benefited, sometimes to the highest degree,  from the services of the Minard crew whose achievements have been formally recognised by the Fire Service Authority.

Head scratching begins at 7.30pm and questions and competition are both expected to be fierce.

Inveraray and District Pipe Band (IDPB) held a sponsored walk from Inveraray to Furnace yesterday (Sunday 19th April). The route brought walkers along the old shore road from the Argyll Caravan Park (’the battlefield’ - or HMS Quebec as it used to be), past Kenmore to Furnace.

The 100-strong group ended up at the Furnace Inn where, in the glorious sunshine, they - and everyone in the village - was entertained by a concert from both IDPB bands: the world champion ‘big band’ pkaying in Grade 2 this year for the first time; and the ‘wee band’ playing in its first year of competition.

Thanks to the Mid Argyll Round Table (possibly influenced on the choice of venue by James Helbert, headteacher at Furnace School) Read the rest of this entry »

The latest outing at The Furnace Flicks was something of a surprise. Never mind the repeated flurry of F-words from the hilarious main madman, the appearance in Burn After Reading of what was described as ‘a sexual contraption’ Read the rest of this entry »

Furnace is creating its own Homecoming 2009 event. Forget funding - this is village initiative at its best. We’re doing it ourselves because we want to.

Put the first week of August in the diary and fasten your seatbelt. There’ll be guided walks, guided tours, talks, surprises and a ceilidh. People who have moved away from the village are being contacted personally and we hope to welcome them back for all or part of the week.

The group who volunteered to do the donkey work meet after the coffee morning that takes palce every alternate Tuesday morning in the Village Hall - and everyone’s welcome to stay and join in.

Ronnie Dodd tries to keep order and Heather Clark is going to keep everybody up to datewith ideas nes and developments here on the Village website.

The Lochgilphead Round Table are running a Race Night in Furnace Inn on Wednesday 8th April.

Furnace Primary School’s Headteacher, James Helbert, a member of the Table is responsible for bringing the event to Furnace.

Profits are to be split equally between the Inveraray and District Pipe Band and Furnace Village Hall.