Ayrshire Around the World (2): Brisbane, Australia
The city of Brisbane, with a population of 2.4 million in its metropolitan area, is the third most populous city in Australia, but few ...
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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...
Ayrshire Sites
Olde Ayrshire (1): Dunure Castle
This 1840 print by an unknown artist shows the ruins of Dunure Castle viewed from the North. In the background you can see the vast volc...
Ayrshire Around the World: (1) Ayrshire, Iowa, USA
The centre of the community. Ayrshire folk have gone all round the world, leaving their mark. In many far-flung corners of the globe y...
The Roman Invasion of...Ayrshire!
The first invasion of Ayrshire that history has some record of was the Roman invasion of 81 and 82 A.D., led by the Roman general Agri...
How did Ayrshire vote in the Scottish Independence Referendum?
First Minister Alex Salmond campaigning in Kilmarnock. This blog wholeheartedly supports Scottish Independence – because we see it as ...
Ayrshire Marching Bands
Ayrshire has loads of drum and flute marching bands. A lot of these - if not all - are connected with the Orange Order, a Loyalist organiza...
Ayrshire's Aviation Industry
One of Prestwick's Twin Pioneers. Despite its bucolic charm of hedge-rowed fields of cows, rolling hills, and the distant bleat of...
Video: Albannach Rocking Millport
Traditional Scottish drumming band Albannach performing their identitarian Scottish music at the Millport Maritime Festival on the isla...
Scottish Review: Annie Börjesson - Murder or Suicide?
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...
BBC: See this crazy castle before the summer of 2015
It may not be Scotland’s biggest castle, but Kelburn Castle – 35 miles west of Glasgow – is certainly the country’s brightest. Fo...
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