I agree, he deserves to be Australian of the Year.

7 here.
and Hugh I managed to log in

Had a good laugh, Hugh.

Thanks everyone for your good wishes. Think I will take a year off from now on.
I did have a good day and will continue tomorrow celebrating with our daughter who has been working up in New South Wales this week.

Thanks, PT.
That was such a sad day , think that was the nearest I had been to hearing of someone dying. I remember telling Graham that it wasn't his surname as He had said he had heard rumours.

Has anyone come across any mention of an explosion in ICI , I think in the 50s. I was at school with a boy whose father was killed in an explosion . The boys name was Graham Durnie ( or Durnan?). I think he lived in Kirkhall Drive at that time. He was a very clever boy and I have often wondered what...

GLASGOW HERALD 11 APRIL 1894 ARDROSSAN – ACCOMMODATION TO LET To let furnished, that handsome and commodious house known as “GLEN FOOT,” containing 3 public rooms, 13 bed rooms, servants’ room, bath rooms, pantries, kitchen, and conservatory. There is also a good stable and coach-house and a large ...

Meg, there is a photo of the Toll and the gable end of the house next to it(Vernon Terr) in the book Old Ardrossan.

GLASGOW HERALD 24 MARCH 1942 ADRIFT 12 DAYS – SCOT AND COMPANIONS SAVED BY ‘PLANE [/b. The local men who are missing are FRANK McQUADE, DAVID McCUBBIN, RODERICK BROWN, and WILLIAM BROWN, of Ardrossan, and ALEXANDER McMILLAN, WILLIAM DOCHERTY, and PATRICK SHIELDS, of Saltcoats. The tanker was torped...

George, it is coming back to me now.
My google search added to my confusion as that no14 actually was back to back with my Aunts house in Hunter Avenue.
Netta

Google getting it wrong, Hugh, Surely not

So the first pic is down where road turns round to Hunter avenue. Must have walked past those houses for years and not paid any attention.