The town of Irvine is at least 1,000 years old, and has accumulated a whole load of history in that time, this section deals with some of it.

08 Aerial Irvine Shipyard Church Street, Cochrane Street - by Crawford Fulton
This photo was taken from George McMaster's Collection.

Montgomery Street (Interwar Years) - by Crawford Fulton
This photo is taken from George McMaster's Collection, it looks east from New Street and the railway station towards the steeple of the Town House in the distance. This former bustling commercial area was demolished 1970-73 to make way for the Riverage shopping centre, which now presents a largely blank face towards New street, with only one shop entrance in sight (that of the ASDA supermarket,




