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Hughie wrote:Ross’s Dairy in Parkhouse Road Ardrossan stood on the site where until a few years ago the High Tide pub stood. Those from Saltcoats and Stevenston who are old enough will remember the building if they used the High Road going into Ardrossan - it was on the left and perhaps a quarter of a mile beyond Ardrossan Academy.

The dairy had that classic farmhouse look about it, including whitewashed walls and a large courtyard. I can’t recall any other entrance to it other than via its own road off Parkhouse Road where you could then enter the courtyard. Anyone know the original name of the farm?

The dairy’s horses were kept in a field behind the Parkhouse Road houses. The field ran all the way down to Ardrossan Academy at the Stanley Burn or as the locals called it the Galloway Burn. The other boundary to the “cuddy park” was the fence at the Caledonian railway.

When I was around eight years old we little boys used to help deliver the milk from Ross’s Dairy, the milk cart was not unlike a stagecoach to my way of thinking as the driver sat up high. The driver’s name was Jimmy Withers, Jimmy’s trusty steed was a big white horse named Dougald. It was very sad when Dougald died – he was a great favourite in the town.

My dad used to buy the occasional sack of corn from the dairy for his chickens, and I also remember him getting hayseed from there to use as lawn seed - this was probably the sweepings from what was left over after the horses hay was cleared out.

Can anyone add to this topic, or perhaps raise another recollection on what's gone before.