Campbeltown has been crawling with creepy characters as people have been dressing to impress to celebrate Hallowe’en.
Schools, groups, clubs and pubs held their own celebrations on and around October 31, while Campbeltown Town Hall pulled out all the stops to put on two spooktacular events for people of all ages last weekend.
As always, the venue was impeccably transformed into a house of horrors, with meticulous attention to detail going into the dastardly decorations.
On Friday evening, more than 300 people queued down Main Street and around the corner onto Longrow South for the venue’s popular children’s Hallowe’en walkthrough.
It took about two-and-a-half hours before the hordes dissipated as groups of 15 people were guided through the town hall by vampire hunters seeking out Count Madosh the vampire.
Tricks and treats awaited them around every corner and screams reverberated around the building as people received the frights of their lives when they finally found the blood-sucker and his killer cronies!
The fun was just for adults at Saturday night’s licenced party, which featured monstrously good music from The Twisted Melons – masquerading for one night only as The Twisted Pumpkins – supported by DJ Christophe Adie, and David McCallum and George Harrison with their killer karaoke.
There was a £100 prize for the best dressed which went to Lesley Black and Susan Reid, who transformed themselves into Del Boy and Rodney Trotter from Only Fools and Horses.
They came complete with their own hand-crafted version of the three-wheeled Reliant Regal Supervan that the wheelers and dealers drove in the iconic sitcom.
Both town hall events were organised by staff from South Kintyre Development Trust (SKDT), which owns the town hall, supported by a team of volunteers.
“The walkthrough was magnificent as always,” said SKDT manager Eric Spence. “Special thanks to Willie Durnan and Bobby Cairns for the superb decor.”