Happy birthday Sandra.

bonzo/brian f,

Volvo did take over the site.

Jim, I think it was a Royal Army Ordnance Corps depot situated on the land of Eglinton Estate. The main gate, as I remember, was situated on Kilwinning Road, Irvine, just along from the "Central" hospital. The following 'Eglinton Country Park' link also contains references to war time activity by th...

I didn't see the programme but do remember coming across a fine statue of the Bard in Central Park, New York.

'GEORGE ARDROSSAN' previously posted a photograph on 1 May 2017. Hopefully it will appear in the following link: -

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Might have been in an Interment camp near Liverpool . The father of a late relative, through marriage, an Italian born café owner in Glasgow, was interned on the Isle of Man via Liverpool. I don't know if this meant he simply passed through Liverpool or whether there was a 'holding point' in the ci...

The 'LOOKING BACK - HERALD FILES - 100 YEARS AGO - JUNE 28 1907 - mentions Sergeant McIlwrick, Ardrossan, as a prize-winner at the Constabulary sports. Attached is a photograph of Sergeant McIlwrick: -

Francie,

I don't know for sure, but anyone born of 17 October 1905 would be 33 at the time of the fatal accident, which fits in with the headstone arithmetic of Gilbert Brown, viz - "killed on 28th September 1939, aged 33."

You're obviously a young Kittywake :lol:. Marress Road did not exist in the mid-1960s and is presumably so called, not because there was anything prominent about the farm itself, but because it was partly built on what were previously the farm fields. This stretch of the A737 was obviously required ...

Marress was a farm at the location described. I'm struggling to remember if it was still there in the mid-1960s or just referred to in conversation.

Many happy returns Netta. Have a great day.

I hesitated to mention the surface - I couldn't remember if it was 'earth', the grass having been worn away; ash, blaes, clay; or gravel. It certainly wasn't all grass.