THE MOST AUSTRALIAN POP SONG WAS WRITTEN AND SUNG BY AN AYRSHIRE LAD
With its lyrics about Australian ex-pats, beer, and vegemite sandwiches you couldn't get a more Aussie pop song than Men at Work's...
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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
AYRSHIRE'S FORGOTTEN MANSIONS (1) FULLARTON HOUSE
There is a very nice wooded park to the East of Troon, where you can enjoy a picnic or a walk, and there are even some interesting old build...
HAS STURGEON BEEN PROTECTING TRUMP'S TURNBERRY "MONEY-LAUNDERING" OPERATION?
Trump visits "the laundroma t" Ayrshire folk will have mixed feelings about this, but it's best to know the truth. While it...
WHO OWNS AYRSHIRE'S STATELY HOMES (6): SKELDON CASTLE
This beautiful 18th-century Georgian house set in spacious grounds (125 acres) along the banks of the River Doon (of Tam O'Shanter fame)...
Moon Over Ayr: When The Who's Drummer Crash-landed at Prestwick
You wouldn't normally think there was any connection between Ayrshire and mega-rock band, The WHO, but you'd be wrong. Thanks to Pre...
THE SALTCOATS TRAIN DISASTER OF 1939
Now forgotten, the Saltcoats Train Disaster was a relatively big incident, with 4 killed and dozens injured. It occurred on 25th Sep 1939, ...
Kilmarnock by Google Streetview
Take a virtual tour of the stately Ayrshire town of Kilmarnock via "Google Street View. Once the home of Johnny Walker, the town also ...
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...
Russian Premier's Visit to Hunterston and Kilmarnock (1967)
Premier Kosygin meets reporters at Hunterston Thanks to President Putin's wars of aggression, relations between the UK and Russia are at...
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...
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