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AYRSHIREHISTORY.COM
PRESERVING THE PAST . . . . FOR THE FUTURE
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MAUCHLINE - EVIDENCE
OF THE PAST
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Scottie Wallace |
In
Mauchline there are a number of buildings standing where evidence of the past
is very evident. No more so perhaps than The Coogate, Loudoun Street, and The
Ballochmyle Inn. Above left is one of a few houses left in the Coogate, with
an obvious building having been nearer the cameraman. The right hand image from
the early 60s shows the collection of buildings which were once in Mauchline
Club car park.
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Willie Lyle |
Left:
The Ballochmyle Inn, as it is today, 2004, with the evidence of a taller steeper
roofed building on the gable of the larger block.
Right: The Inn as it was, before fire gutted the building possibly
in the late 50s, exact date not quite known.
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In
early summer 2004 Crafty Coffee moved from 13 Loudoun Street farther down the
road, a sign from the past came to light. The sign for Smith the Bakers was
immediately before Crafty Coffee and employed the ladies who now are Crafty
Coffee. For years and years that shop was Nellie McArvail's the newsagent. Immediately
before Smith it was the Jolly Beggars Gift Shop which was run by Beth Wilson.
(Text contribution Nancy Moffat)
