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Schools, fitness classes and a church-related family group called Alpha that held events and showed films. A children's choir run by Dunoon Grammar School music teacher Ian Davies, his wife Primary Teacher Mary and Mary's mother (and local piano teacher) Peggy Thompson rehearsed in the hall occasionally during the late 1980s/early 1990s. Innellan youth club was set up by local young people in the 1990s and ran for several years in the hall. The Innellan Youth Club was not affiliated with any religion and was simply a sociable club using the church hall - likewise the young people's choir.
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The village's most striking landmark from its heyday as a seaside resort - the large Royal Hotel that overlooked the pier - was destroyed by fire in 1981 and the site has yet to be redeveloped. The entrance gates to its former site on Pier Road still show the sign for the hotel. Innellan's pier,
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