IRVINE, THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING TOWN THAT KEEPS BUILDING MORE HOUSES!!!!
New houses at the Harbourside It's no secret that Irvine is undergoing something of a building boom. Grok estimates that over the last 1...
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It's funny how much SNP politicians like to "keep it in the family." SNP leader Nicola "Wee Nippy" Sturgeon is ... -
The British victim of a missile strike on a US-British base in Iraq was apparently a young woman from Ayr. As reported by the Dai... -
Lanfine House is a large Georgian Neoclassical property located on the South side of the upper River Irvine valley about 2 miles from Darvel... -
Eight years ago today the body of a young Swedish woman was recovered from an Ayrshire beach. A few days later, on 7 December 2005, a lo... -
Recently the Guardian newspaper sent one of its "big city" reporters to the village of Dreghorn in our humble shire to dig u... -
Old Monkton Kirk, where Wallace had his inspiring dream. Photo by Roger Griffith. I have made this point before that the evidence of W... -
From the Ayr Advertiser : AYR tops the list for the highest number of sex criminals in Ayrshire – with 74 offenders recorded as res... -
Jewish refugees Lore Zimmerman and Susanne Schaeffer in 1939. Because the Scots share some of the characteristics from which the Jews ... -
Ayrshire is graced by some beautiful manor houses and impressive stately homes, but more often than not few people actually know who own... -
Annick Lodge is a late 18th-century manor house in the Neo-Classical style then in vogue, built on the site of the earlier 15th-century Pe...
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OASIS AT IRVINE BEACH 1995 (YES, *THAT* OASIS, AND *THAT* IRVINE BEACH)
The biggest gig ever held in Irvine was undoubtedy the 2 nights OASIS played at Irvine Beach Park on the nights of the 14th and 15th of July...
THE CANDIDATES: CENTRAL AYSHIRE
What do we know about the candidates in the forthcoming General Election? Not much, so here's what we could find out at short notice. Fi...
IRVINE'S CULT: THE BUCHANITES
A detailed account of the 18th-century Buchanite Cult that originated in Irvine and was driven out by the Irvine mob to seek refuge in Gal...
IRVINE'S GHOSTLY NUNNERY
Sometime back in the late 70s, when I was just a kid, I remember discovering a large walled estate on the Eglinton Road between the old Irvi...
How Irvine Dealt with the Closure of the Royal Ordnance Factory in 1958
In 1958, Irvine's Royal Ordnance Factory closed down with the loss of hundreds of well-paying jobs. How did Irvine deal with this? Thi...
Daniel Defoe on Irvine in the 1720s
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) is now mainly famous as the author of the adventure novel "Robinson Crusoe" (1719), but he was a pro...
The Night Liberace Was Mobbed in Irvine
Back in 1960, piano virtuoso Liberace actually visited Irvine. Yes, I know, it's pretty unbelievable, but it's true. The occasion w...
IRVINE: A New Town in an Old Setting
Promotion film made by the now disbanded Irvine Development Corporation in 1994 to celebrate the first 28 years of Irvine New Town. The so...
THE NAZIS AT WAR WITH AYRSHIRE (3): IRVINE'S ANTI-ITALIAN RIOTS
It is a mistake to conflate the Fascist government of Mussolini's Italy with the National Socialist government of Hitler's Germany. ...
THE NAZIS AT WAR WITH AYRSHIRE (2): THE NIGHT THE LUFTWAFFE BOMBED IRVINE
It may surprise some, but when WWII started the sleepy Shire of Ayrshire was very much on Hitler's radar and figured greatly in ...
WTF ARE THEY GOING TO DO WITH THE ARDEER PENINSULA?
One of the big, unanswered question in Ayrshire is: What the f*** are they planning to do with the Ardeer Peninsula? Situated betw...
Industrial Ayrshire: Irvine - Drugs, Paper, Glass, Oil, Aerosols, and Wind Power!
Stretching a third of a mile, the giant UPM paper mill along the A78 Ayrshire has always punched above its weight as an industrial pow...
FLOOD MAPS OF AYRSHIRE (from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency)
IRVINE With the heavy rains that Ayrshire has been subjected to this Summer, here are a selection of flood maps sourced from the Sc...
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