BBC: Auchinleck & Cumnock rivalry runs deep in Ayrshire
An excellent BBC article about the intense minor league football rivalry between two small local teams from the East of Ayrshire: Wh...
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Premier Kosygin meets reporters at Hunterston Thanks to President Putin's wars of aggression, relations between the UK and Russia are at... -
It may surprise some, but when WWII started the sleepy Shire of Ayrshire was very much on Hitler's radar and figured greatly in ... -
IRVINE With the heavy rains that Ayrshire has been subjected to this Summer, here are a selection of flood maps sourced from the Sc... -
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... -
There has been no more divisive issue in Scottish politics in recent years than the question of Scottish Independence. Ayrshire was pretty m... -
This print, dated 1901, shows the ruins of Kilwinning Abbey, which was in operation from the 12th to 16th centuries. -
Very few British counties contributed as much to defeating the evils of Naziism as Ayrshire. Despite its remote location, far from Lo... -
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...
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It is a mistake to conflate the Fascist government of Mussolini's Italy with the National Socialist government of Hitler's Germany. ...
26.08.2022 - 0 CommentsIn 1958, Irvine's Royal Ordnance Factory closed down with the loss of hundreds of well-paying jobs. How did…
27.01.2023 - 0 CommentsNow forgotten, the Saltcoats Train Disaster was a relatively big incident, with 4 killed and dozens injured.…
16.03.2020 - 0 CommentsA price of £2.5m was quoted when the property came on the market in 2007 Ayrshire is graced by some…
14.06.2021 - 0 CommentsCessnock Castle, which lies about one mile south-east of Galston, is a pretty typical Scottish castle…
17.03.2020 - 0 CommentsAyrshire is graced by some beautiful manor houses and impressive stately homes, but more often than…
19.09.2022 - 0 CommentsSometime back in the late 70s, when I was just a kid, I remember discovering a large walled estate on the…
26.11.2023 - 0 CommentsThere has been no more divisive issue in Scottish politics in recent years than the question of Scottish…
14.04.2024 - 0 CommentsA detailed account of the 18th-century Buchanite Cult that originated in Irvine and was driven out by the…
13.03.2020 - 0 CommentsThe British victim of a missile strike on a US-British base in Iraq was apparently a young woman from…- 20.02.2022 - 0 CommentsThe last two years of the COVID outbreak, with all the restrictions that's have been imposed, has been tough.…
