SPW051061 SCOTLAND (1936). Irvine, general view, showing River Irvine and Montgomery Street. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing north. This image has been produced from a damaged negative.

St Pauls Church ?

St Paul's Church ? OS maps show two St Pauls, one each side of river, both CoS.

Meadow Park Football Ground

Caledonian Greyhound Stadium, 1933?-1993.

Infectious Diseases Hospital

Irvine (Bank Street) station, terminus of Caledonian Railway branch from Kilwinning. Opened 1890, closed 1917-19 as wartime measure. Regular passenger traffic ceased 1930, goods 1939.

Quarry Road

Engine Shed, Caledonian Rly.

ss COULBEG (Ayrshire Dockyard Irvine Yard No 518) is described as the “Last Ship built by Ayrshire Dockyard”. Therefore this may be her. She was later renamed the CARSBRECK. Details given for the COULBEG are: Length: 352ft. Completed: September 1936.

Bridgegate.

L.M.S.R. workshops.

Bottle bins.

L.M.S.R Irvine harbour Branch.

Bottle Works.

Gottries Road.

Slaughter house.

Footbridge.

Alma Place.

Church street.

Montgomery Street.

Originally Mackie & Thomson’s Shipyard - later the Ayrshire Dockyard. The main ships built were Clan Line Steamers. The depression hit the shipbuilding industry badly. Manufacturing only picked up from 1936 onwards. Finally, the yard was mainly a ship repairer, doing such in the 40s and 50s. From the date of the image – i.e. 1936 – it is likely that this ship is the Carsbreck – it was completed in 1936 and launched as the Coulbeg for Dornoch Shipping Co Ltd.