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Lynne Craig from Ayr. Posted 10 Mar 2002.
Ayr High Street hasnt really changed much in the years I remember it. The only real big change would be the building of the Kyle Centre and the High Street becoming largely pedestrianised. This was a good idea as the pavements were widened and lovely hanging baskets were hung the length of the street. The main local shop in Ayr has always been Hourston's at the top of the town. It is a traditional department store that seems to be as much a constant in Ayr as Burns Statue or the beach. I remember going there with both my grandmothers as a child for assorted nick nacks, with my mother for the painful picking of my school uniform and now to pick gifts for my own upcoming wedding. | | |
|  | Richard from Ayr. Posted 11 Mar 2002.
I had a friend who got a job watering the hanging baskets when they were
first put in, so that move was good for the local economy too.
Didn't the Hourstons used to be called Arnotts?
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| | Dawn O'Kieff. Posted 27 Jun 2002.
Yes you are right - it did use to be called Arnotts. I remember going into Arnotts with my pals and we would go to the lift and there would be an older lady who would control it! After a few times up and down - she told us not to come back! I now live in the States and went back to Ayr last year after 17 years and although some things had changed like the new kyle center etc - Arnotts was just the same!
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| | Bonnie M Fountain. Posted 27 Aug 2002.
Do you remember the Star Hotel on High Street, Ayr? My great grandparents, Robert and Jessie Hallan, were the proprietors for many years into the early 1900s. They were also the proprietors of the Victoria Bar on Hope Street. My grandfather, Robert Hallan (Jr.), emigrated to the U.S. in 1905 where he married, had children, and I was born. I've spent much time in Ayr and love it dearly. But I missed seeing the hotel which was demolished around 1970, and is now Marks and Spencers.
The Victoria Bar is no longer there, either. Do you have any idea where I could get a photo of the old hotel or the bar? Perhaps you will recall that the hotel had a large star on the exterior of the building which was to have remained on the building as long as it remained standing. This star was rescued from destruction by a Kyle and Carrick Library employee, but was, I understand, subsequently broken and discarded. I've tried to find a postcard of either building for the last 20 years, but amazingly every card I've found of High Street is photographed from the other end of the street. I'd like to correspond with anyone who remembers anything about either building or the people associated with them.
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| | Stephen Watson from Winnipeg, Canada. Posted 6 Mar 2003.
I have a grandfather clock that was purchased from W. Affleck, Funeral Undertakers and Cabinet Makers at 69 High Street, sometime before my grandparents Came to Canada in 1910. Can someone tell me what is currently at that location?
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