Muirkirk - Furnace Road

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Photo Murray Pringle & Jock Foster	Photo ayrshirehistory.com

Left: Furnace Road. On the left the Black Bull Hotel, with
Muirkirk Ironworks in the background.

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Photo Jimmy Taylor	Photo - ayrshirehistory.com

Furnace Road. On the left, the Gas Works; right, Morton Place and The Dandy's. Top: Irondale House, built originally as The Great Inn in 1790 hoping to cash in on the proposed Glasgow to Sanquhar Road which never materialised. The Ironmasters took over the building and it was renamed Irondale House, and where lived the Manager of the Works and latterly N.C.B. employees. The local doctor also lived here, and his surgery was situated at the rear of the building.

Photo Jimmy Taylor	Photo Murray Pringle & Jock Foster

Furnace Road. At the bottom left the Gas Works Office and cottages, andThe Railway Tavern.

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Photos Jimmy Taylor
Left: Furnace Road.Furnace Road School Woodwork Room on the right.
Right: Furnace Road: School Gate and Morton Place on the Right. Top, Irondale House.

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Photo Library & Info Sce, EAC	Photo Jimmy Taylor

Left: Muirkirk Iron Works
Right: Village from the Slag Bing looking north. Front right, River Ayr Bridge;
front left, Southside Gas Works; centre right the roof of the single-story Furnace Road School can be seen.

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