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Title: VIEWS AROUND AYRSHIRE

Reference number: 10018

Date: 1932c

Director: filmed by George Stewart

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 17.52 mins

Description: Amateur footage of towns, villages and scenery around Ayrshire, the south of Scotland and north of England.

Shotlist: gvs King Street, Kilmarnock. Shots of the clock tower in Laigh Kirk in Kilmarnock. Policeman directing traffic at junction. Shots of St. Marnock's Parish Church and a horse and cart and cars on the street. Shots of bridge and industrial buildings behind. Street scenes. Construction work. Children playing at a fountain and a man walking alongside a train track, steam loco 906 passes. gvs Kay Park and Burns Monument. Shots of a man standing next to a small cottage. Shots of a bucket being winched and men building next to a train track. High shots of harbour with cranes. Shots of an outdoor swimming pool. Panning shots of the beach and a golf course. Shots of families enjoying the beach and more shots from the pool. Young people in their costumes sit alongside the pool. Shots of a main street. Panning shots of the Old Bridge (Auld Brig) in Ayr. Panning shot taken from a bridge of ship-building crane along the riverside and shots of the New Bridge in Ayr. Shots from the Bridge looking towards the Sandgate. Shots of Ayr High Street and the Wallace Tower. Shots of the Tam O’Shanter Tavern and Burns Statue Square panning along towards the train station. GVs of the beach and the Pavilion. Children play in the park outside the Pavilion. Shots of the Ballochmyle Viaduct and a building with the sign: “Poosie Nansie Hostelry. The Jolly Beggars Howff”. Shots of the Burns Memorial Tower – Mauchline. View of the river and more shots of the Auld Brig. Three women and a man are shown eating at a table outside. Views of the landscape over to Greenan Castle. Shots of a grave yard and Soutar Johnnie's House at Kirkoswald. Crossraguel Abbey. Tower House. Gvs Dumfries, Station Hotel, Burns statue. Shots of a women playing with a dog in the garden. Shots of horses in a field and boys playing with a kitten. Town square. Old Blacksmith Shop at Gretna. gvs Carlisle. Countryside.