It was the year when the first mobile phone call was made in Britain, the short-lived Sinclair C5 was launched and the miners called off their year-long strike… Meanwhile in Ardentinny, the expansion of Coulport and anticipated employment opportunities featured in the community newsletter as well as the re-painting of the village hall; the bugging of a local home; a 15lb sea trout caught in the River Finart; and the village was close to the epicentre of an earth tremor! Read on..
