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Old Photographs Portland Street Kilmarnock Scotland

Old photograph of the Bus Station, cars, shops and people on Portland Street in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland. The initial bus station was located at the corner of Portland Street and East George Street, serving the town after the 1926 closure of the local tram system. The first collection of work by Scottish poet Robert Burns, Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect, was published here in 1786, and became known as the Kilmarnock volume. The internationally distributed whisky brand Johnnie Walker originated in the town in the 19th century. A comparatively modest settlement until the Industrial Revolution, Kilmarnock extended considerably from around 1800 onwards. This resulted in formal, planned developments such as King Street, Portland Street, Saint Marnock Street and latterly John Finnie Street; the last often suggested as one of the finest Victorian planned streets in Scotland.

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Old Photograph Paddle Steamer Nairn River Tay Newport On Tay Scotland

Old photograph of the paddle steamer Nairn on the River Tay near Newport-on-Tay in Fife, across from Dundee, Scotland. The Nairn provided a ferry service for passengers and cars across the River Tay to and from Dundee from 1929 to 1966.

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