Resources

On this site:

•  20th century memories by members of Fullarton Historical Society, some on video
•  Dredgers and Tugs by Ian Dickson
•  "Fullarton Folk Reminisce",  ed. Mae McEwan, 1985
  (available through the kind permission of Mae McEwan)
  a 19 MB pdf file
•  Irvine Harbour by John Paterson (c.1880)
•  The lifeboat barometer returns! by Ian Dickson
•  Irvine lifeboat service by Mae McEwan
•  Shipping Notes
•  Irvine history on Irvine Burns Club site

On other sites:

•  Statistical Account: Irvine 1793 by Rev James Richmond (Vol.7, p.169, p.188 on the pdf)
•  Description of Irvine 1828 by John Wood
•  New Statistical Account: Irvine 1845 by Rev John Wilson (Vol.5, p.619, p.635 on the pdf)
•  Harbour of Irvine 1852 by James Paterson in History of the County of Ayr
•  Film including (after other locations) stevedores unloading grain at Irvine in 1901

We plan in due course to document other industries of the harbour area, eg:

The Tar works - there for a long time - at the back, to landward, of the Blue Billy

Brown's Foundry (any link to Geprge Brown, Provost?) - he lived at Ivybank and was known as 'Foundry Brown'.

Walker's Chemical Works on Portland Road, where the pumphouse is today - closed in the early 1950s 'medieval' (Joyce, Irvinite) no health & safety - her father worked there - no masks - furnaces - ICI took it over.

Laird's - closed c. 1948