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Illustrated Victorian map of Ayrshire
Ailsa Hospital, Ayrshire
Ailsa Hospital maps
Historic maps of Ailsa Hospital and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Ailsa Hospital maps
Ailsa Hospital photos
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Around Glasgow Photographic Memories
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Memories of Ailsa Hospital
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Ayrshire memories
I recall my pals and I going to Ayr harbour and picking up the herring and mackerel, which dropped off the baskets when the boats were unloaded, and selling them round the nieghbours' houses. Herring were 1 old penny and mackerel 2 old pennies. Today (2008) a herring costs £1 each! 240 times dearer.
We would make dens up Craigie Woods... [more]
Shared on 06 October 2008
Having fish & chips from the Vesta Cafe on the New Road, they were the best.
Playing the puggy at Favali's in the New Road.
Playing down at the Newton Shore. Skating at Ayr Ice Rink.
Climbing the fence and getting into the dog track from Elmbank Street on Sunday morning to pick up anything of value the drunks had dropped... [more]
Shared on 26 August 2007
Happily walking along Ayr beach with an ice cream from the Wellington Cafe, paddling in the sea with my parents! Eating wonderful fish and chips on a windy day. Getting breakfast rolls from one of the many bakers to take back to my aunt's. Going skating at the ice rink with my cousins.
Shared on 04 January 2007
I had many very happy years spending my summer hols with my wee Granny and Grampa Bowman! I met my first love there too!
Shared on 01 March 2009
Good old days at Symington Primary School
My name is Agnes Mawhinney, my fondness memory is going to the old primary school on Symington Road North with my brother Arthur. The class rooms were big with big high ceilings, the toilets were outside across the playground and you had to hold on till playtime to go to the toliet. Playtime was the best time because you were able... [more]
Shared on 18 August 2009
I remember my childhood, going to the chippy and playing on the beach, everyone was nice and happy. I still live in Barassie but now all I think of is how dull it has become with new buildings everywhere (some better than others ). My grandparents have lived in Troon/Barassie now for nearly 40 years and say things have never been... [more]
Shared on 05 November 2009
To me there is nowhere like Skares was, and anyone who came from there will say the same. Everybody knew everybody else and they were always ready to help anyone that needed it. You could go out and leave your door open without worrying about anything being pinched. In the summer we used to all go on a picnic doon the... [more]
Shared on 15 March 2008
My memories have a date range from 1958 to date. Although I was born in Irvine due to my mother needing urgent medical assistance I was brought up in a town that I grew to love and found easy to defend against anyone who barracked it.
I lived with my mother and father originally in Paxton Street which looked onto... [more]
Shared on 12 September 2006
Extracts From Ailsa Hospital & Ayrshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Ailsa Hospital, inspired by Frith photos.
Glasgow - A History & Celebration
Lancefield Quay, formerly the wharves and sheds of the Irish boats, has become a prestigious apartment block; it is appropriate that the 'Waverley' is still berthed there - residents of the penthouse flats can virtually look straight down her funnels.
This is an extract from Glasgow - A History & Celebration.
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Glasgow - A History & Celebration
It was already happening in the 1980s, when Royal Mail cleared the wharves on the south side of the river at Kingston and developed the largest mechanised letter office in the United Kingdom. In the mid 1990s, however, demand for this service outgrew the location, and so Royal Mail decamped to Springburn, erecting the Automated Processing Centre where once had stood the engine-sheds and locomotive yards at Cowlairs. By the end... [more]
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Glasgow - A History & Celebration
The slums of the Gorbals were cleared, and in their place in the 1960s arose enormous tower blocks; in recent years they have been demolished to make way for low-density housing of a more humane variety. The Gorbals was traditionally a district with a transitory population. The Irish of the 1840s gave way around the turn of the century to the Jews who fled the pogroms of eastern Europe. As... [more]
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