Growing up in kilmarnock was brilliant, sadly now all the factory's are gone Johnnie Walker gone town centre is shocking such a shame riddled with junkies..
You’d never see something like this again. The town centre just filled with drug addicts, delinquents and the depressing townscape with little to no retail opportunities
Never seen a soul I knew since I left in 1966,Kilmarnock was a lovely town.Doing away with the Cross and making no cars through wasted Kilmarnock I enjoyed watching just the same.
Blame EAC, they're still making a mess; instead of using the insurance money to rebuild the Burns monument after it was burned down, they built offices that look a public toilet.
Born there in 1958. Gibson Street, lived with my Gran who worked in Johnnie Walkers. Dad work for British Relay on the Western Road. Sad to see it's demise over the years really I think from 1966 onwards. Those town councilors in the parade need to be ashamed. Miss the Baths on a Saturday morning near the Fire Station. (wave machine)
Looks like it was a grand day. A shopping mall was considered to represent progress then. A pity it took the destruction of so much of the part of the town that I grew up in.
Was this the mid-70's I presume? I hail from Hurlford and was born in 1974 so I don't remember the pre- concrete Killie. Cheers for posting (great footage).
Was it Duke Street they tore down in the 70's to make way for the Mall? My Dad (who was born in 1946) remembers the way it used to be. I remember my late mum used to drag me round the old market on a Saturday (at the top of the foregate) back in the early 80's.
Now it's a junkie center need to knock it down with the multistory car park build shops that look like the ones in bank Street old shop fronts police need to do the junkies for harassing and breach of the peace council should be ashamed of what they have done to town centre
