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...
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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
The Marine Hotel in Troon Reopens Under New Management
One of Ayrshire's most iconic hotels, the Marine in Troon, is set to reopen from July after being taken over by a firm of Chicago-based ...
WHO OWNS AYRSHIRE'S STATELY HOMES (5) LANFINE HOUSE
Lanfine House is a large Georgian Neoclassical property located on the South side of the upper River Irvine valley about 2 miles from Darvel...
WHO OWNS AYRSHIRE'S STATELY HOMES? (4) CESSNOCK CASTLE
Cessnock Castle, which lies about one mile south-east of Galston, is a pretty typical Scottish castle home. It goes back to the middle age...
Painting: Ballochmyle Viaduct Over the River Ayr
"Ballochmyle Viaduct over the River Ayr" was painted in 1851 by the artist David Octavius Hill (1802–1870) to commemorate the ope...
Bowie in Kilmarnock: Starman Visits the Provinces
Ayrshire is a bit of backwater in rock n' roll terms, so very big names are unlikely to play here when they are big. However, nobody sta...
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...
Kilmarnock, the Worst Run Prison in Scotland?
Is Kilmarnock Prison the worst run prison in Scotland? This video, which appears to come from a fly-on-the-wall TV documentary, suggest tha...
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. ...
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