Bridgegate Looking North West from near the foot of Hill Street, circa 1970 - by Crawford Fulton
Irvine Development Corporation showed complete contempt for the heritage of this Scottish Royal Burgh in the manner in which it chose to document that which it was about to destroy. It has taken over an hour of concerted effort to partially restore this print: it was badly scratched; the exposure and colour balance was dire; and it is not even well focused. This is one of only two surviving photos of the beautiful British Linen Bank building; had it not been demolished, it would surely have been stone-cleaned and quite probably made a Category B Listed Building. It was demolished to make way for this:
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The Last Pub In Fullarton 1971 - by Crawford Fulton
By the time that this photo was taken by George McMaster, Central Fullaton's days were numbered: the Church Street tenements had been demolished, as had half of Waterside; all that remained of Friars Croft was an isolated, boarded-up, 2 storey, stone house; and, at the top of the image you can make out the twin muddy tracks, which would become the Northern Approach Road.