Kilwinning, Ayrshire Scotland. The Airnworks "White Brig" 1957-2024

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Older Kilwinning residents often fondly recall with affection the many sights along the Garnock river such as the Salmon Hole, Salmon Ladder at Dirrans. One of the other old memories is of the “White Brig”, spanning the river Garnock to the south of the town, just beyond the Airnworks Viaduct heading to the Auld Shore. My earliest memory of traversing the white brig was around 60 years ago in the late 1950’s. My ‘Airnworks’ pals and I would make our way over to Bogside Racecourse near Ravenspark Hospital.
21 years later, in 1979 I would walk the brig once again whilst on a family outing from Blacklands Crescent to the Auld Shore, filming the outing as I walked. Then, just a few weeks ago, in late 2023, I again made my way over the white brig yet again. On this occasion I filmed a [rather more eventful] walk on my iphone. This short film combines my memories of those three spells, spanning 60 years, when I ventured to cross the “white brig”.

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19 янв 2024

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@maranye2709 2 месяца назад

Interesting, but babe you would never get me to walk that narrow passage at the end. So after 60 years, I finally get to hear that beautiful Scottish accent❤

@derekporter7658 6 месяцев назад

I vaguely remember the slag heap getting removed, I think much of it ended up becoming part of the Hunterston iron ore terminal (now also sadly gone, to a degree) my dad worked on the construction of the ore terminal and also earlier in his life worked at Biggs Waterfall! It's a pity that you never managed to get a lot of films of Kilwinning in the 70's, that would have been fantastic to have seen it again as I remember it. You got a snap of the Ardeer ICI works in there WITH the cooling tower, before it collapsed in 72/73. Fantastic Eddie!!👍👍👍

@eddiejohnstone9797 6 месяцев назад

Thanks again Derek. The only reason I got the film was because I had splashed out and rented a video camera and recorder from Radio Rentals in 1979. I did have more footage of my walks and family films from then but . . Just cannot trace them now. Regards Eddie

@derekporter7658 6 месяцев назад

@@eddiejohnstone9797 cheers for the reply Eddie! Radio rentals! We used to get TVs from them back in the day!😄, I remember the British Relay shop at the junction of Almswall road and the Howgate! I think you had to go to Irvine to the radio rentals shop there! Unless you were flush, then you would have bought a TV from Harris of Saltcoats! I'm hoping to "come home" this summer to show my daughter the place where I used to live and have fun in, as well as bringing the stories of my childhood antics to life in some respect. I will try to get the slides transferred to digital and pass them to you.

@chmarr 5 месяцев назад

@@eddiejohnstone9797 radio rentals, have not heard that name in a long time along with silvervision in stevenston and rumbelows in salcoats

@eddiejohnstone9797 5 месяцев назад

Thanks. You are right @hmarr . . . all were “well-kent” names way back then. I was just commenting on another page of how shops come and go . . . remember all those video-rental shops which went extinct. They could never have known just how fast technology would move on to be replaced by DVD and streaming services. Such is progress. Kind regards E.

@chmarr 6 месяцев назад

theres an error at the start, the rail line you said was the kilwinning to ayr line was the in fact the old kilwinning east line that went to the old ardrosson oil works which is now the pennyburn football field

@eddiejohnstone9797 6 месяцев назад

No, there is no error. My home from 1950-1962 and the same house again 1975-1982 in Blacklands Crescent is one of those houses seen in the background of my family movie so indubitably I am aware that the Ayr to Kilwinning railway line runs directly past my house. What you picked up on [wrongly] was that the text advising viewers of my correct information - it is the Ayr railway line - appeared for a split second under the second clip of the other branch line.

@chmarr 5 месяцев назад

@@eddiejohnstone9797 do you remember the old path that used to run down the side of the rail line on the pennyburn side which is all bungalows

@eddiejohnstone9797 5 месяцев назад

Hi @@chmarr Thank you. Believe it or not, my parents lived in the bungalows that you referred to , [Dunure Court] back in the 1990's however I just cannot recall the layout prior to that. Kind regards, E.