Heritage Hunter Resources
Research Library
Click for a list of our books for research purposes. We also have a collection for reference on the second floor.
If you’d like to access any, email us here. We’d love to help out.
Oban’s Built Heritage
Our Heritage volunteers have been researching Oban’s buildings and the stories behind them.
They’ve also made a walking trail leaflet available in the book bank.
Oban’s Heritage of Colours
Oban Heritage of Colours is a collaboration project by Naoko Mabon, Deborah Gray and our heritage volunteers.
They produced an interactive digital map of historical growing sites and writings that can be used as reference or a self-guided historical walk.
School Days
In the summer of 2014, The Rockfield Centre oral history project, Memories Matter: A Time To Tell Our Stories, recorded former pupils who were at school during the postwar period 1945-1955.
They were kind enough to share their stories with us.
Journeys to the Little Bay
With the use of our research materials, sound recordings and our ‘Blether’ sessions we have been able to celebrate ‘Journeys to the Little Bay’ with both families who have long connections to Oban and those that have moved here in recent years
Junior Heritage Hunter
Activities
Maritime ABC
Send Me a Signal!
Before radios, phones or computers, sailors on ships needed to be able to communicate with each other. Messages could be sent between ships that were visible to each other using flags with symbols
Write your own historic postcard
Write me a postcard!
Have you ever gotten a postcard from someone? Did you know the earliest postcard dates back 177 years to 1840 when an English man named Theodore Hook sent one to himself as a bit of joke?
Why not make your own postcard to send to a friend or family member?
Vikings in Oban
Learn how to draw a longship or make a woven bracelet.
The Norsemen first started exploring the west coast of Scotland about 1200 years ago. They were summer visitors to begin with, travelling from their homelands in Norway to search out fertile ground.
Meet some local children from the past and discover what life was like in Oban years ago.
Paper copies are available to pick up in the Shelter at The Rockfield Centre Book Bank.
