Thanks

This is the Hutcheson's Memorial at the north end of the island of Kerrera , seen from Ardconnell Road in Oban.

I was in Oban all day on the first campaigning Saturday of the New Year and there was a great turn out and a great reaction on the doorsteps. I was canvassing Kerrera Terrace in Dunollie which also looks down to the island.

In the early afternoon I had to go to see a constituent who lives on the hill below MacCaig's Tower and this was the view. Kerrera sits to the west, dominating the approach to the town with ( today) the snow capped hills of Mull beyond.

Appropriately the ferry from Mull was just coming into sight beyond the lighthouse at the tip of Lismore - appropriately because Hutcheson was one of the founders of the ferry company that eventually became Caledonian MacBrayne.

The inscription on the memorial reads :

ERECTED
BY A GRATEFUL PUBLIC
IN MEMORY OF
DAVID HUTCHESON
BY WHOSE ENERGY AND ENTERPRISE
THE BENEFITS OF
GREATLY IMPROVED
STEAM COMMUNICATION
WERE CONFERRED ON
THE WEST HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS
OF SCOTLAND
1883