Sorn Main Street - Looking West
Photo Stuart Robertson                                                Photo Terry Harrison
Two views of the old Main Street looking West.
Left: On the left, the big stone this side of the entrance which led to Sandbed, is remembered by Chris Lees as the stone that helped "Auld Wullie Piper" onto his pushbike. He apparently had a bike that was far too big for him!!
Photos Jim Nisbet
Three views taken from the left hand image, of Main Street, looking west. The left hand image, the full image, taken from just to the east of the current Old Folks Cabin, which at the time of the photo was Catrine Cooperative Society, or known locally as The Store. The centre image shows a close up of The Store, and the image on the right shows the centre of the photo, and includes the ESSO sign at the filling station on the Main Street across the road from the Sorn Inn.
Photo David Somervell
The people on the left foreground are Davie and Kate Cameron.
This image is so clear, a sample has been taken out of the centre of it, which is the image on the right.
Photo Jim Nisbet
Photo John Clark Madison
Left: Looking towards the Sorn Inn, taken in 1958 or so. On the older shot above, the single storey house three down is thatched. This is the white house on the right of the newer image on the left. The writer remembers it in the late 60s, as that of Joe Rae, who moved to Beith. Joe was at one time seen sitting at his front window at nights reading from the light of the street lamp at the from door. This was because his living room light bulb had fused, and he refused to buy a new one.  He was a woodwork teacher, and the school he worked at was in the process of changing from bulbs to strip lights, and Joe was promised the old bulbs!!
Right: A view from across the river, looking towards the Sorn Inn, which is the white building, half obscured, towards the right of the photograph. The Inn is only half it's current size, as the house on the right of it is half a storey less. This is the building to which half a storey was added, and became part of the Inn.
Photos - Kenny Baird
Main Street at dusk in late summer 1998, before the dramatic fire which burned the pub down, and a view from farther up the street, similar to the top left image above.
Photo Hugh Harrison
Photo Robin Tannock
Photo ayrshirehistory.com
Amazingly, these three images are of the same view.
Left: Logan House, which was demolished in the late 60s or early 70s.
Right: The same image as centre, taken in early 2002
Photo Cumnock Chronicle
A photo taken for a newspaper article in 1976, which unfortunately is just scanned from the newspaper. The originals have been lost. Notice the mini bus at the old garage, which at the time belonged to Tom Lorimer. The petrol station beyond that was also Tom's, which by this time was selling ICI petrol, and at one time was the cheapest in the area. Further beyond is the Shell sign on the second filling station in the village. Now there are no filling stations in either Catrine or Sorn.
Top Left Photo Hughy Harrison
Other Photos Jim Nisbet
                                  These are four different views of what was called Logan House. If you look closely at the banners and flags, they are different, from the image below right. The old Police station was in the Main Street, and can clearly be seen as the house with the notice board at the right hand side of the front door. John Black was the last policeman to be stationed in the old police station.
Bottom:The image on the right, shows PC John Black  leading.  In the doorway in the photo on the left, Jim and Nancy Nisbet are watching the procession.
Photo Jim Nisbet
A street procession, outside Logan house, from a different time than the other images. In the doorway, is Mrs Harrison.
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