Old travel Blog photograph of houses by the golf course in Girvan in South Ayrshire, Scotland. Girvan Golf Course was designed by James Braid who was born in Earlsferry, Fife, He won The Open Championship in 1901, 1905, 1906, 1908 and 1910. He then developed a very successful career in golf course design. Girvan is stituated on the east coast of the Firth of Clyde, 21 miles South of Ayr, and 29 miles North of Stranraer, and is the main ferry port from Scotland to Northern Ireland. The opening of the railways, initially with the Maybole and Girvan Railway at the end of the 1850s, encouraged the development of Girvan as a seaside resort with beaches and cliffs. Most of the streets in the south east of Girvan are named after trees, examples are Maple Drive, Elder Avenue, Pine Quadrant, etc.
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