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)...
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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... -
Ayrshire has always punched above its weight as an industrial powerhouse, and continues to do so today, with important home-grown busine... -
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. ...
17.04.2024 - 0 CommentsAI-generated image of a woman in men's clothes from the period, Helen Fielding would have looked a lot…
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…
23.04.2015 - 0 CommentsRecently the Guardian newspaper sent one of its "big city" reporters to the village of Dreghorn in our…
30.12.2014 - 0 CommentsOne of Prestwick's Twin Pioneers. Despite its bucolic charm of hedge-rowed fields of cows, rolling…
01.09.2023 - 0 CommentsWith its lyrics about Australian ex-pats, beer, and vegemite sandwiches you couldn't get a more Aussie pop…
12.08.2019 - 0 CommentsIt's funny how much SNP politicians like to "keep it in the family." SNP leader Nicola "Wee Nippy"…
09.08.2021 - 0 CommentsDaniel Defoe (1660-1731) is now mainly famous as the author of the adventure novel "Robinson Crusoe"…
30.01.2015 - 0 CommentsThe first invasion of Ayrshire that history has some record of was the Roman invasion of 81 and 82…
01.11.2017 - 0 CommentsIn the 2017 general election to the Westminster Parliament, the four Ayrshire constituencies voted as…- 29.01.2022 - 0 CommentsIn its long history, the territory we now know as Ayrshire has changed hands quite a few times. In fact, it…
