A Tour Of Irvine, Ayrshire - May 2020

[@rodgarty4097]

So many memories was brought up here in the 60s Got lost a few times though watching it ,so many roundabouts dont remember that .Seems to have gone downhill though so sad

[@MrSnout5]

Things change quickly nowadays. The Jet petrol station near the beginning, on Kilwinning Road, is now a Morrisons Daily.

[@nps2512]

Great vid I lived in Irvine in the 80s Brings back some good memories

[@historyhusky]

Thanks for the lovely comment.

[@nps2512]

Your very welcome I lived on old Casey rd and my grandparents lived in bourtreehill I still have a yearning to go back but like it does everything changes , my daughter who I don’t see went to Irvine royal . I watch all the marymass videos hoping I might see her she was rumoured to be living across the road from the school castlepark , you tube and google earth keep me connected to Irvine and I’ve just turned 60 so it’s time for a visit in my little camper

[@CarlosHenrique-sn3le]

The shores must be beauty! How I want to discover something over there ! 🙋

[@faddy24]

My home town and where I was born. This was 2 months into the pandemic hence hardly aybody walking around. Makes me nostalgic because at this time I thought I was building a beautiful relationship with someone but it never survived the duration of the pandemic. Imagine being nostalgic about a bloody pandemic, well we all have our own stories I guess. Pity you couldn't show more of the harbour and coast area though.

[@lindsayleighton9842]

Is the Central Hospital still here?

[@historyhusky]

It is still there Lindsay, no maternity or A&E and probably changed a bit since you last saw it.

[@michaelprice9484]

igrew up here in 70s' before the shopping mall the fullerton bridge

[@lindsayleighton9842]

I was born here in 1961.

[@margaretsalmon9567]

Pity none if the old town nor the beautiful river side were shown.

[@derekporter7658]

Christ on a bike!! They've wrecked a lot of Irvine!! Wtf is the "Portal"? Yes it's been a very long time since I have been there, and as a Kilwinning laddie, I was shocked to see that Kilwinning had been treated to the same vandalism! Both towns looked better in the 1970's and 80s!

[@historyhusky]

Yes, not all town planning changes have been good ones. The portal is a new leisure centre, magnum now unfortunately demolished, you'd never know it had been there.

[@derekporter7658]

@@historyhusky jeez!! It's like that here in Edinburgh, it's lost a huge part of its character and charm. Architectural and planning vandalism only on a bigger scale. I'd heard the magnum was getting demolished, I remember the fanfare of the media when it opened!! I spent a few happy times there. Shame it closed, it was one of the best leisure centres I've been to. Thanks for the drivearound tour, you've captured some modern history in the making!

[@derekporter7658]

@Andrew Murray doesn't mean that I have to like it.

[@dylanfinnie1568]

Seen my house on the left at the start and at the right is my school

[@hubertking3232]

I'm a black man but my white ancestors came from this town. My folks were probably slaves of the Boyds. Id like to visit some day Maybe I still have relatives there. I live in MD USA. My great great great grand was Alexander Boyd as I had researched

[@historyhusky]

Boyd is a very common name around these parts. I hope you manage to visit one day.

[@ewaminkus73]

Tu mieszka moja wnuczka Helenka Minkus

[@grimmfandango832]

I live in Birmingham now. For all of Irvine's problems I will say this. We Irvinites are pretty decent at architecture, Irvine looks cosy compared to what I see down here. The only part of England that compares is around Sheffield. Hopefully the bigotry will go away. I was watching another video and a rangers fan posted some nasty stuff. It's 2021 not 1891