windmill st.,on the rocks

[joantoyboy]

i was looking at some really old pictures of windmill st., on the rocks across from the old beach pavilion there looks to be a wee house, i grew up in windmill st., during the 40,s dont even remember there even being a foundation there and we played there all the time, so can anyone tell me anything about that wee house. joan

[Mitchy]

Hi Joan,

I take it you mean the rocks at the Windmill St side of the Pavilion, and not the Winton circus side?

Ian Mitchell

[joantoyboy]

hello ian the windmill st., side. joan murphty

[Hughie]

Hi Joan,

Is this the photo with the wee house on the extreme left? That's a new one on me. Again there might be a mention of it in Saltcoats Old & New

Just along from there, about in the middle of those houses facing the harbour, I remember there was an amusement arcade - my brother and his wife lived in the attic of that building in the early fifties. During the fair fortnight alongside there, there would be men selling crockery, linen and other such stuff out the back of a van. You'd swear you were at the Barras with the patter - it was entertaining just to stand back and listen to it.

[joantoyboy]

hi hughie dora murray owned that amuement arcade those attics above it were hers as was 41 windmill st., they were awful, we lived at 47,still havent saw any mention of the wee house on the rocks will go back through saltcoats old and new again, i just took a quick look. joan :

[Jimmym]

Hi Joantoyboy,
If you go to the following link it might help the same as the rest of the help you have got from the rest of the gang if you click on my web site address at the bottum of the page hope this helps .

Bestwishes Jimmy

[bobnetau]

Is that wee house round about where the Pavilion would have been?
Maybe someone would have a record of what was on the site prior to the Pavilion being built.
Netta

[joantoyboy]

HI NETTA THE HOUSE IS ON THE ROCKS ,LOOKED IN SALTCOATS OLD AND NEW DID NOT SEE A MENTION OF IT ,I.,LL KEEP SEARCHING. JOAN

[brvhrtjimmy]

hi joan the first time i seen that foto i made enqiries about it,what i found out the sewer ran right out htere and that wee house was some sort of pump house, that sewer was removed in the past 7 years or so so it was there up till that time and active. there was a big european project to clean up beaches of which part and the biggest part was to lay a whole new sewer system.
james barr (brvhrtjimmy)

[knxyl]

James,
We were told not to swim at Sandilands because the sewage went out there and you could see the big pipe when the tide was out.This would be in the 40's. Margaret

[hullaw]

Was it still called Sandylands (here haw, whit sand?? was the cry) back in the 40's?

It was and still is a hellhole of a place to take a holiday...

[dreamer]

I've found the house on the 1910 OS Map, where it's identified as a 'Bath House':

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Looks like the perspective of the original picture above tricked us into thinking it was in line with the rest of Windmill St, when infact it was a bit further back!

And here's the map overlayed on the good old aerial photos: