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Ayrshire / Re: Whitletts Ayr
« on: Wednesday 30 January 13 19:31 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Trixie9,
Yes, my father was A. McKay.  We lived in the cottage when my brother was born in 1952 (Thorneyflat maternity home).  My mother can't remember when we left the cottage but she is sure that we were the last residents.   My grandfather also lived in Whitletts - across the road in Glenmuir Place.   

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Ayrshire / Re: Whitletts Ayr
« on: Sunday 09 December 12 21:32 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Trixie9,   I Googled 'Whitletts history' this evening and saw your question re Padan Aram.   I can't help you with the history aspect but can tell you I lived with my family in that cottage for a short time in the early 1950's.   We had only a cold water supply, oil lamps (no electricity), and outside toilet.   As a child of 7 or 8 years at the time none of this bothered me and the garden was full of fruit trees - cherry, apple, pear and plum trees.   The wider orchard was a place where all the local children played and was a shortcut used by people going between the Main Road and Glenmuir Place and probably through to James Brown Avenue.   I think my parents rented the property from a Mr Whitton who owned a butcher's shop in George Street, Ayr.

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