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Article: FOR SALE: A MILLION GOLDEN HOLIDAY MEMORIES; SANDS OF TIME: COULD THE ONCE-CROWDED BEACH AT A FAVOURITE CLYDE RESORT BE SOLD AS GREAT CUMBRAE GOES ON MARKET?(News)
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- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- July 23, 1999
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IT'S a tourist spot that ceased to be hot long ago. The gulls on the seafront outnumber the visitors by 50-1.
Generations of Scots remember it fondly - they just don't want to go back there.
But for pounds 3million the fading jewel of the Clyde - Great Cumbrae - could be yours.
Former racing driver Johnny Dumfries, the Marquis of Bute, has decided to sell the island in 14 neat lots.
And yesterday the news was greeted with shock in the main town of Millport, scene of a million holidays over the years.
For the island's five farmers ...