Old Photographs Alloway Ayshire Scotland

Tour Scotland wee travel video of old photographs of Alloway, Scottish Gaelic Allmhaigh, a village in Ayrshire. Alloway is best known as the birthplace of Robert Burns, and is also where he set Tam o' Shanter. The Brig o' Doon, a late medieval bridge, is used as the setting for the final verse of the Robert Burns's poem Tam o' Shanter. In this scene Tam is on horseback and is being chased by Nannie the witch. He is just able to escape her by crossing the bridge narrowly avoiding her attack as she is only able to grab the horse's tail which comes away in her hands. The Alloway Auld Kirk having been a ruin since the end of the 18th century, a new church was opened for worship on 10 October 1858 and the first minister was called in 1859. The station was part of the Maidens and Dunure Light Railway. It opened on 17 May 1906. It closed on 1 December 1930 and reopened on 4 July 1932 when a holiday camp was opened in the Heads of Ayr, however it closed again on 31 May 1933. Although the line through the station reopened again in the summer of 1947 to coincide with the opening of a new Heads of Ayr station serving the newly opened Butlins, this only served the camp and Alloway station did not reopen. The line through the station closed for the final time on 14 September 1968.

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