Above are three very interesting postcards from the archives of ayrshirehistory.com, which were for sale on ebay for a time in the summer of 2011, and eventually bought at a postcard fair in Prestwick. Initially I am convinced the initial images on ebay were identical, ie looking like it was three of the same card. But I realised at the fair in Prestwick that they were three of a set. But who are they? Who are the distinguished looking gentlemen. How old is the image if you are to go by the model of the car, of which I am no expert.

A night view of the Burns Tower, taken in 1998.

One of the clearest views of the milestone, telephone cables and the finger sign posts on the road into Mauchline. The right view is a sample obviously of the full sized photograph. See below for a close up of the phone wires and the old finger signpost.

One thing I have often thought when walking on the road between Kingencleugh Roadend and the Kennels on the Auchinleck / Howford Road, is that the milestone is somehow out of step with the road. I often wonder if it has somehow found it's way down from the Burns Memorial Tower to the spot it stands on today. Unfortunately the shot of the milestone at the monument shows only the Tarbolton direction. The right side is kind of obscured. Even on the main image, the location of the stone is kind of obscured, as though it was never sat there to begin with. But surely where it sits today bears no significance?? Where is the road to the left to Tarbolton?? And I read it as Mauchline and Cumnock in the same direction.