Author Topic: Spion Kop (Workmans Dwellings) King St. Ayr  (Read 34362 times)

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Re: Spion Kop (Workmans Dwellings) King St. Ayr
« Reply #45 on: Wednesday 28 March 18 14:26 BST (UK) »
Hi maisie76,  Thanks for adding that photo.

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Re: Spion Kop (Workmans Dwellings) King St. Ayr
« Reply #46 on: Wednesday 28 March 18 15:10 BST (UK) »
These Workman's Dwellings with their verandahs look very similar to the Workman's Dwellings in Glasgow's Townhead!

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Re: Spion Kop (Workmans Dwellings) King St. Ayr
« Reply #47 on: Wednesday 28 March 18 17:06 BST (UK) »
Spion Kop has, over the years come to mean any sloping place offering a view such as Liverpool football ground or the cemetery of that name in Hartlepool. From memory I think even Mansfield Town have the same name for the part of the ground.

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Re: Spion Kop (Workmans Dwellings) King St. Ayr
« Reply #48 on: Wednesday 28 March 18 21:33 BST (UK) »
Hi maisie76,  Thanks for adding that photo.

No problem, it’s a good view of King Street. I always wanted to know what it looked like back then as my mum was born across from the scope and lived there till she was 10.
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Re: Spion Kop (Workmans Dwellings) King St. Ayr
« Reply #49 on: Sunday 25 November 18 13:20 GMT (UK) »
Hello everyone.

My grandfather Francis McInally was born is Spion Kop on 25th April 1920 to Francis & Elizabeth.

He served in the Argyll & Southern Highlanders at 19 years of age with Tommy Boyd.

His mother and sisters died of TB.

Can anyone give me anymore information?

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Re: Spion Kop (Workmans Dwellings) King St. Ayr
« Reply #50 on: Monday 01 May 23 21:16 BST (UK) »
HI MIGHT BE A LONG SHOT BUT DOES ANYBODY REMEMBER MEG GREEN WHO STAYED NUMBER 13 WORKMANS DWELLINGS. SHE WAS MY G.GRANNY AND LOOKING FOR PHOTOS OF THE GREENS IF YOU HAVE THEM. ANNMARIE W

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Re: Spion Kop (Workmans Dwellings) King St. Ayr
« Reply #51 on: Thursday 15 June 23 11:34 BST (UK) »
When were the Spion Kop buildings in King Street in Ayr demolished. Iremember them as a child in 1956 as my great granny lved further down King Street just before where the open air market used to be. My dad Robert Thomson went to Russell Street school in late 20's / early 30's.  I also remember delivering  mail in 1973 to a tenement block at the top of King street which had outside loos  on the stairwell.

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Re: Spion Kop (Workmans Dwellings) King St. Ayr
« Reply #52 on: Thursday 14 September 23 01:52 BST (UK) »
I only just found this site.  We were looking at the picture and the lady standing next to the railing is my mom.  I don’t know what years they lived there but they got married in 1934 and in 1944 they were living at a different location so sometime in that 10 year period.  We first saw this photo in a book I have called The History of Ayr.  What a surprise to see our mom.