Colintraive, Argyll & Bute - Kyles of Bute - Valentine RP postcard c.1950s

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• Picture / Image:  Kyles of Bute, Colintraive [Argyll & Bute] - real photo postcard
• Publisher: Valentines (A 6437)
• Postally used: no
• Stamp:  n/a
• Postmark(s): n/a
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Colintraive; (Scottish Gaelic: Caol an t-Snàimh) is a village, on the Cowal peninsula in Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands. Once the site where cattle were swum across the narrows to the Isle of Bute, a ferry now provides the back door to the island

Colintraive is located on the west coast of the Cowal peninsula, facing the Kyles of Bute.^[3] The village is quite small with few facilities, primarily the hotel/pub-restaurant,^[4] and its small adjoining post office. The Colintraive Hotel was owned and run by Ken Sykora for 5 years during the 1970s before his wife's alcoholism forced them to sell up.^[5] A Heritage Centre opened in 2009.^[6] The nearest town of notable size is Dunoon, which is twenty minutes drive away on the east coast of the peninsula, facing Gourock and the Firth of Clyde.

The name Colintraive derives from Gaelic and means "swimming strait" or "swimming narrows". In the past, cattle were swum over from the Isle of Bute to Colintraive on their way to the markets of lowland Scotland.^[7]