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Oban has a primary school campus located in the south of the town along with Park Primary School at the north of the town, and a major high school, Oban High School. In 2019, £36 million was spent on a new building for the high school, replacing the original 1890 building which was subsequently demolished.
The scheme for classifying buildings in Scotland is: Category A: "buildings of national or international importance, either architectural or historic; or fine, little-altered examples of some particular period, style or building type."
Google Maps is available as a mobile app for the Android and iOS mobile operating systems. The first mobile version of Google Maps (then known as Google Local for Mobile) was launched in beta in November 2005 for mobile platforms supporting J2ME. [194] [195] [196] It was released as Google Maps for Mobile in 2006. [197]
The basis of forestry policy in the 1920s was the need to rebuild and maintain a strategic timber reserve. As the surrounding area could not supply adequate labour, the forestry village at Dalavich was established. [1] By 1959, the village population was 318, with over 125 school aged children. A new school was built by the County Council.
Dunbeg (Scottish Gaelic: An Dùn Beag), formerly known as Dunstaffnage (Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Stafhainis [2] or Dùn Staidhinis [3]), is a village about 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (4 km) outside of Oban, Scotland. [4] [5] It has a population of just under 1,000.
The glen is located between Oban and Lochgilphead, [2] surrounding the village of Kilmartin. In the village, Kilmartin Museum [3] explains the stories of this ancient landscape and the people who dwelt there. There are more than 800 ancient monuments within a six-mile (ten-kilometre) radius of the village, with 150 monuments being prehistoric.
Oban Municipal Buildings is a municipal building on Albany Street in Oban in Scotland. The building, which is used by Argyll and Bute Council for the delivery of local services, is a Category B listed building .
In Europe, Google Street View began on 2 July 2008 with the route of Tour de France being covered in parts of France and Italy.The service has since expanded to many European countries, while at the same time has been controversial in some countries due to laws and privacy concerns.