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Mr Gall & Mr Steel at the railway station, around 1917 and wee New Cumnock lad looking on:) |
Steam train at New Cumnock 1961 |
The Arthur Memorial Church built in 1913 |
Looking up the Castle with the Town School on the right 1904 |
Inside the Afton Hotel. The man with the moustache may be a Mr. Lind. Can anyone name the others? |
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The River Afton in the winter probably the 1950's |
The Afton Hotel |
The Railway Station and the Afton Building on the left |
McKechnie's Garage |
The Castle with Templeton's shop on the right and the local coalman |
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Another view of The Castle |
The Castle Hotel on the right and Sanny Gibson's shop at the end on the right |
On the right the smiddy and the CO-OP but no McKechnie's Garage yet |
Mick Clark outside his shoe shop |
The CO-OP. The girl on the right is Jen White (Nee Brown). This picture features on the cover of one of Donald McIver's books |
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Pathhead probably at the turn of the century |
Part of The Castle before demolition in the late 50's |
The Castle |
A brass band marching by Wilson's the Chemist with John Wilson and Willie Dodds |
A great picture of The Castle |
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A sale outside The Crown Hotel |
The Crown Hotel and Town Hall |
3 lassies on the swings at the Castle. Does anyone know them? |
Halls Factory courtesy of Dan Jess |
The bank, chemist and the Town school. Courtesy of Dan Jess |
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Looking over to Trotters Shop and Tweedie's Garage. Picture courtesy of Dan Jess |
Football special train arriving in New Cumnock in the late 1930's |
Train and signal box |
A special excursion train in the 1940's which would have been laid on to take local people to Ayr on cheap days out |
Looking over to the station with the Afton Hotel on the right, the Afton building on the left. The piece of ground which is now Loch Park where Glenafton play is just behind the barn |
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John Hunter's shop, which was tirned into a block of flats |
The Parish Church and Town Hall. Note there is no sign of the Crown Hotel Function Room on the left yet. |
Nice coloured picture of the Town Hall |
Kirkland's shop in the Castle |
The Castle from what is now the entrance to the old running track. It shows the CO-OP on the right but there is no McKechnie's garage there yet on the left. |
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The Castle 1960. On the right at the far end is Sanny Gibson's shop, The Castle Hotel, Biddalls Picture House, the Snooker Hall, the cafe and the bank |
Old picture of the Parish Church and the Town Hall |
The point where the Afton and the Nith meet |
The Co-Op at the Castle, Loch Park side and staff. John Muir, Mr. Sinclair, Jim Purdy, Jimmy Dickson, Joe Keane and unknown girl |
Mrs. Barbour (Molly Tennant) at Tinwald Cottage which is the last house on the left at Pathhead heading to Cumnock |
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The Co-op Committee members |
The view from Pathhead 1987. Picture by Grace Roy |
Hunter's shops staff |
Hunter's shops staff again |
Bowling Club |
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Looking along Afton Bridgend towards The Toll 1966 |
Afton Bridgend early 1900's looking towards the Kirkconnel road |
The church at Afton Bridgend |
The Muirkirk Band at Afton Bridgend |
The Toll looking along Afton Bridgend |
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Aerial view of New Cumnock around late 60's |
Old thatched roof houses just before the Afton bridge early 1900's |
New Cumnock silver band playing at Greenhead playing fields in the 60's |
The Bridgend Bar during the winter around the 1970's. Picture courtesy of Dan Jess |
Coal being delivered at Afton Bridgend by Lindsays |
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Taken in 1960 - a chimney sweep at work on the flat roofed houses that used to be in Dalhanna Drive |
This lady is standing at the back doors of the Red Row that used to stand across from Mason Avenue |
Young lovers at the Coupla but who are they |
The auld Afton Bridge before demolition and rebuilding |
Taken at the bottom of Redree Place, looking into Lochbrowan Crescent in the winter of 1982. Picture courtesy of Dan Jess |
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Brass band at Afton Bridgend. Those houses are all gone |
Dalhanna Drive when the flat roofed houses and Pre-fabs existed around 1950 |
New Cumnock Gala day 1987. This is Mary Lincoln and children Fiona and Ross Picture by Grace Roy |
James McDonald, watchmakers and Jewelers |
Another picture on the Lime Road at the gala day 1987. Picture by Grace Roy |
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The pipe band 1987 on the Lime Road. Picture by Grace Roy |
The Crown Hotel form long ago. The lady in the white apron is Margaret Marr's (nee Lawrie) mother. |
Old postcard from early 1900's |
Gas street lighting and short trousers are the fashion in this old picture outside the Parish Church |
The Nith Brig but before the emergence of Loch Park, now home of the Glen's which was once a bog and latterly a dump before being transformed into the pitch we know today |
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