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Old Photograph Diving Platform Swimming Pool Troon Scotland
Old photograph of the diving platform at swimming pool in Troon, Ayrshire, Scotland. The Swimming Pond shown in the photograph opened in 1931. After being replaced by an indoor pool it was demolished in 1987, and the site is now a car park. Considerable expansion occurred in Troon from 1808, when the Duke of Portland added docks to the north. By 1812, a horse-drawn railway linked the town with the duke’s coal mines around Kilmarnock. Troon grew to become Ayrshire’s main coal port. A shipyard was established in 1860. Shipbuilding continued until 2000, with a peak period in the 1950s when many of Scotland’s early car ferries were built at the yard. Since the coal fields of Ayrshire have declined, tourism, particularly based around golf, and fishing have grown in importance to the economy. A catamaran links the town with Larne in Ireland for much of the year, while the harbour is now home to a large leisure marina.
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