Photo Bobby Logan
This image turned up during the golden gala exhibition in Mauchline during the summer of 2002. This at first glance looks the older of the two images at the cross with animals being driven through, because of the taylor's shop on the corner of High Street, in the centre of the picture. It was Brown's then was changed at some point to Lambie's and became a white building. (Painted or whitewashed).By 1911 Lambie had taken the building back to the stone again, as can be seen in the image on page 45 of Gibb's book. But looking at the house beyond, John Richmond's house at the time of Burns, it has been slated, and there are two sky lights. This was slated "recently" according to John Taylor Gibb's 1911 book, and called "The Auld Hoose of The Kilnknowes". The Cross looks as though it has been tar macadamed, which was done in 1908. The main building in the image is known as The Place, or in later years McShane's building.