old photo of unknown town and buildings

[Mr.S.]

It was not a Donaldson but a relative who lived in falkirk area who had the photos.Donaldson family may have lived in Prestonpans.I am not a relative although connected to the relative who lived in falkirk

[loobylooayr]

Hi ,
I know I'm going to be very wrong
And it's not even the right coast...but I thought the building looked like Ayr Sherrif Courthouse which sits down near Ayr promenade - http://www.flickr.com/photos/netnicholls/11587967494/in/photostream/

I wait to be bombed out
Looby

[tidybooks]

Hi Mr.S.,

Thanks for that, I was just wondering why it was posted in East Lothian. My friend was the image of the one in first photograph. He maybe a relative, giving that he was born in Port Seton next door to Prestonpans. I am not sure that the building is in East Lothian, but maybe some other rootschatters can tell me different.

Tom

[janan]

Hi ,
I know I'm going to be very wrong
And it's not even the right coast...but I thought the building looked like Ayr Sherrif Courthouse which sits down near Ayr promenade - http://www.flickr.com/photos/netnicholls/11587967494/in/photostream/

I wait to be bombed out
Looby

Certainly looks like it to me. I assume the possible Gents must be a one storey building in front.

Jan

[tidybooks]

Hi Looby,

That does seem to be the building, what a shout. Sometimes fishermen from Cockenzie & Port Seton used to fish from Ayr at certain times of the year. I wonder if one of the Donaldson's got married in Ayr.

Tom

[loobylooayr]

I thought it looked like Ayr but was a bit unsure. There are gardens in front of the building leading down to the promenade. I've been looking at Google Street View at the houses on Bath Place which sits to the left of the building (if you stand with your back to the sea). One of the houses looks very like the house in photo one to the left of the man- even down to the rack of 9 chimney pots.
But I'm no expert with old photos.
Looby

[tidybooks]

Certainly looks like it to me. I assume the possible Gents must be a one storey building in front.

Jan

Hi janan,

I am wondering if the "Gents" was a portable ice-cream van "Girardelli" or similar, parked in front of the court house, it was a right tourist place at the weekend.

Tom

[janan]

Certainly looks like it to me. I assume the possible Gents must be a one storey building in front.

Jan

Hi janan,

I am wondering if the "Gents" was a portable ice-cream van "Girardelli" or similar, parked in front of the court house, it was a right tourist place at the weekend.

Tom

Could well be

[loobylooayr]

Unsurprisingly there is no phone box today and I wouldn't know if there ever was one.
An ice cream van would make more sense than toilets. Ayr Pavilion which  I believe had public toilets is just a stone's throw away.