Take a virtual tour of the stately Ayrshire town of Kilmarnock via "Google Street View. Once the home of Johnny Walker, the town also has links with the Ayrshire poet Robert Burns.
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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... -
Click to enlarge The 1775 Armstrong map shows the town of Ayr as a developing market town with a military past and a few budding indus... -
Convicted murderer James Culinane in prison. He claims he is innocent. Over the years there have been a number of terrible murders in ... -
It had to happen one day. "Turdtowns" the YouTube channel that reviews and critiques the worst towns around Britain came to Ayrs...
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Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) is now mainly famous as the author of the adventure novel "Robinson Crusoe" (1719), but he was a pro... -
It may surprise some, but when WWII started the sleepy Shire of Ayrshire was very much on Hitler's radar and figured greatly in ... -
Premier Kosygin meets reporters at Hunterston Thanks to President Putin's wars of aggression, relations between the UK and Russia are at... -
William McGonagall, the Dundonian poet is famous for his "bathetic" poetry, which although hilarious, is also occasionally m... -
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... -
AI-generated image of a woman in men's clothes from the period, Helen Fielding would have looked a lot "rougher" Most people t...
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18.11.2022 - 0 CommentsTake a virtual tour of the stately Ayrshire town of Kilmarnock via "Google Street View. Once the home of…
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