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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Ayrshire => Topic started by: lasto on Thursday 11 March 10 20:37 GMT (UK)
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I am trying to track down an old wool company called "Templetons" based in Ayr (James Templeton & Sons Ltd). I am looking for their Mill or HQ in Ayr but don't know the place very well, if anybody know where it is or was (as often is the case with buildings of old) then please could they show me on a Google Map.
Templetons: http://www.flickr.com/photos/39662513@N02/4425724608/
Many thanks!
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Hi lasto,
There was a large Mill, demolished c1980's, on Mill Street, (closer to Smith Street), in Ayr. The site is now occupied by a car park serving Debenham's etc. Have you tried the Carnegie Library in Ayr or Ayrshire Archives, they may be able to help further?
Best wishes, Jimmijam
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Sorry for the initial posting above. :-\ I had looked at this topic and then another one and then managed to post on this one what I intended to say on the other thread...which made no sense at all here....so I quickly erased it!!! ! ???
Long story short......finally I've had time to finish the follow up google searching on this topic and I there is a link to a map of the location that was reduced to a car park that JimmiJam describes above found on the Ayrshire Council website. See here: http://gis.south-ayrshire.gov.uk/mapsSimple/mapBuildingStandards.asp?Extent=233922,621536,234122,621736
Hope this is helpful for you.
Best wishes
Jean
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Thanks for the info guys, I am awaiting a reply from the South Ayr Library and was directed there from the Council. It could very well be the car park as you point out, many of the Mills have been developed over, but I need to know your sources to corroborate the location. I am not too good at using the too on that page and looking at the reference link they don't seem to specifically point out what the original plot was used for.
I am now going to contact the Archives people and see, with this information, what I can see.
Thanks guys!
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A ha:
http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/search_item/index.php?service=RCAHMS&id=172779
I have found this service very useful recently!
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Hi,
Templetons woollen mill was in mill street,demolished in the eighties,was just rough ground until ayr central shopping centre was built a couple of years back,the mill faced the river ayr just up from turners brig and about 200yds from ayr auld kirk,
My husbands ancestors worked there in the early 20th century and lived in mill street,if you need anymore info please ask,the main library is the carnegie library,main street,
PmACKIE
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Yea I got the info from the page posted above, thanks for the confirmations though! It wasn't that long ago and so people know of relatives that worked in the industry, how times change, fast.
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The mill was in Charlotte Street/Fort Street and moved the Mill Street after a fire but can not remember what year that was.
Maisie
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In 1876 the mill employed 170 male weavers and over 200 women and girls
preparing wool in four tall buildings on the corner of Fort Street and
Cahrlotte Street. On 16 June that year, a fire broke out about eleven in
the morning and within two hours the entire complex was gutted. Twenty nine
people died, trapped in the blazing interior - 28 girls aged 13 - 21 and
their foreman. A new mill was built in 1878 off Kyle Street.
Maisie
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I have several skeins of yarn with a label "AYR Scotch Wools Inc" ... I just wanted to know more about it so googled the name and ended up here. I found the yarn in a second hand store along with some very similar skeins from Restalrig Mills in Edinburgh. I'm now wondering just how old the yarn is, it's in beautiful shape but must be very old!
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In the late 70s I bought a Templetons knitting pattern for a babies shawl knitted in 2 ply Templetons wool.
I have knitted many shawls over the years for many people
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Any connection with Templeton's carpet factory in Glasgow?
http://www.clydewaterfront.com/clyde-heritage/glasgow-green/templeton%27s-carpet-factory
Harry
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I do not see in which year this topic was raised, but here's some information.
The location of the carpet factory, at the corner of Fort Street and Charlotte Street, is clearly shown on the large scale Ayr town plan, ordnance survey 1856. This is available online at the National Library of Scotland:-
https://maps.nls.uk/view/74951258 (https://maps.nls.uk/view/74951258)
Reference and details of the fire, and some harrowing accounts of the deaths and injuries, are described in the following article available at New Zealand National Library (I have come across other information available on the far side of the world regarding situations in Ayr!):-
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP18760821.2.16 (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP18760821.2.16)
The following map, 1937, shows the spinning mill in Mill Street, which I understood as having grown up in Ayr, was the Templeton factory. Zoom into the map, looking for Station Road and Victoria Bridge. Just before the bridge, in a north westerly direction you will see Mill Street, and up there on the left adjacent to the tannery was the spinning mill.
https://maps.nls.uk/view/82868019 (https://maps.nls.uk/view/82868019)
I understood from comments made by my parents who knew the Templetons, they had a carpet factory in the Glasgow area, and i would count Paisley as meeting that.
I would appreciate a PM from "maisie76" regarding "Wyllie, Ayrshire"
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Thank you maisie76 - I can't reply with PM as a newbie!
Our Wyllie's - 1761 started out Sort; New Cumnock, then Newton on Ayr, Craigie, and Ayr.ß