Yesterday was World Baking Day, however we are still waiting for our delivery! Accession S13/36
World Baking Day
20 Monday May 2019
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inYesterday was World Baking Day, however we are still waiting for our delivery! Accession S13/36
10 Friday May 2019
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inBad luck for school children nowadays, no Wednesdays off for the cattle show! Reference CO3/10/7/72/1 Holmston School
03 Friday May 2019
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inHere’s a memo regarding maternity services by Professor James Hendry for International Day of the Midwife on Sunday. Reference CO3/8/8/48
01 Wednesday May 2019
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inToday we are launching our new Strathclyde Building Preservation Trust catalogue! For the first time researchers will be able to browse this catalogue on our website. The records within this collection date from 1981 – 2013 and includes photographs, correspondence, reports and plans. These records provide a fascinating insight into the work conducted by this organisation, whose aim was to preserve and regenerate historical buildings within Ayrshire.
These records are available to view at our Ayrshire Archives headquarters in Ayr on Tuesdays – just contact us to make an appointment.
AA/DC417/2/2/1 – Kilbirnie Chapel, Lamlash Graveyard (20 June 2000)
AA/DC417/3/3/11 – Photographs of the restoration of Dunure Castle, Ayr (16 February 1999)
AA/DC417/15/4/4/2 Newmilns Tower Restoration (28 September 1993)
29 Monday Apr 2019
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inCan anyone guess where in Ayrshire this garden was? Reference AA/DC155
25 Thursday Apr 2019
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inIn honour of National Telephone Day here’s an example of how use of the telephone has changed. Accession 18/032
23 Tuesday Apr 2019
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inToday we are sharing an image of the Obit Book of St John the Baptist Church, 1306-1559 in honour of World Book and Copyright Day. Accession 613
11 Thursday Apr 2019
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inMcCafferty’s newsagents, Newton-on-Ayr. Reference CO3/17/1/8/21
08 Monday Apr 2019
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inFollowing on from #WorldHealthDay, here’s an extract from Ayr County Council Public Assistance and Health Committee Reports, November 1930. Reference CO3/8/2/94
05 Friday Apr 2019
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inTartan Day has been celebrated in the United States since 1998 with many participating in an annual Tartan Parade along Sixth Avenue, New York. Looking back to this parade in held in Ayr in the 1950s will have to do for us! Reference CO3/17/1/8/11