URBAN DECAY - Has Girvan Got The WORST Run-Down High Street In The UK?

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  • @Geraldine-mq1cw
    @Geraldine-mq1cw หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    I can remember Girvan as a child in the 1960s. Two cinemas, a theatre, plenty of bars, amusement arcades and motor boats, mini golf, dancing in Stair Park, some lovely shops . . It was wellkept and bustling with a lovely (busy) harbour, a couple of parks and several hotels. A clean beach and ice cream sellers on the promenade. What a shame. Councils and governments have a lot to answer for.

    • @mattprentice1372
      @mattprentice1372 หลายเดือนก่อน

      TBF it's not so much the council...No one goes to the seaside towns for holidays anymore it's too expensive with no guarantee you'll get the weather.. families get more value going overseas..these towns now survive on summer day trippers.

    • @johncummins3860
      @johncummins3860 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Stopped there last year on a motorbike tour for a pint - could not find a pub open !!

  • @eastendthug
    @eastendthug หลายเดือนก่อน +50

    I'm guessing with most decaying towns that it still manages to have a an uncanny amount of vape, mobile phone repair shops and Turkish barbers.

    • @LOREandEXPLORE
      @LOREandEXPLORE  หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Ayr is full of them. Not so much Girvan. It’s just empty vacant business and shops in decay. Thanks for commenting 👍

    • @RussellGi
      @RussellGi หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Those are day to day consumable services. Being addicted to nicotine, needing to communicate with people, requiring a haircut/shave, are all universal human problems, irrespective if one lives in a place of urban decay. You could have noted the large % of shop units as takeaways in the video as a marker of urban decline, rather than focusing on the nationality of the barbers - but that's your own bias - which you're entitled to.

    • @eastendthug
      @eastendthug หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      @RussellGi my point is, many old school high street stores and local business are having to close due to rental costs and affordability yet these foreign run repair shops, vape stores are everywhere. In my street alone we have two Turkish barber shops as well as a traditional barbers, when i walk by Turkish barbers, they're rarely busy, half the time I see the barbers on their phones. There is alot of talk about them being linked to money laundering.

    • @RussellGi
      @RussellGi หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      ​@@eastendthug Again, "tittle-tattle" and your own personal bias - one could argue the same about the Tory party - and I often do. The Turkish barbers where I am is mobbed, they do a great shave, so diversify from traditional barbers. The reality is people in such shops are (most likely) self employed and are prepared to work for less than the minimum wage to provide essential services. Rental costs and affordability isn't really an issue in Ayrshire, compared to the national average. What is the problem is deindustrialisation, lack of opportunity and low wages caused by decades of Thatcherism and the Neoliberal policies she espoused, all compounded by daft isolationist policies like Brexit or austerity.

    • @stephenlawless4156
      @stephenlawless4156 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Don't forget bookies and pawnshops, the real parasitic businesses that flood every economically rundown town in Britain.

  • @andronian
    @andronian หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Sad seeing Girvan decline the way it has. I’m 48 and as a kid we had a static caravan at Maidens, we were at Girvan most weekends and I loved the place. I saw the Goonies at the cinema in Girvan.
    Sad to see

  • @OLLI-ln7kp
    @OLLI-ln7kp หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Girvan was my go too holiday as a youngster because my family originated from the town,Moved there as a 14 year old in 1979 and seen the place die but it’s still home for me for me and still like the place.

  • @andrewsmith-cm9qw
    @andrewsmith-cm9qw หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I’m from Glasgow been living in England since 1980 as a kid holidaying in Ayr and trips to GIRVAN. It was a bustling vibrant town with a great swimming pool on the harbour front. Both my daughters born in England I took to Newton Stewart Galloway and up to Ayrshire. Fantastic and happy memories we had of that part of Scotland I wish it well and hope it can get back to its heyday. Keep a Pictorial history of your town for future generations to know about and remember the people that made it what it was. Floreat Alba

  • @loganavich17
    @loganavich17 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    While on holiday at Bynehill caravan park I went to see towering inferno at the vogue.I was about 9/10 years old,62 now.ah memories.❤

  • @demontongue9893
    @demontongue9893 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    You know a country has collapsed when the nice little towns around the cities die

  • @GPOTOM
    @GPOTOM หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I grew up there in the 90s and early 00s and it is noticeable how bad it has gotten these days, in a similar manner to Ayr but on a smaller scale. One thing that is noticeable though is the amount of Amazon vans buzzing around the housing estates of these towns. It’s easy to point the finger at the council but ultimately it is changing consumer behaviour and big online shopping corporations that have killed the high streets. The same decline is happening all over the UK, particularly in rural areas.

    • @geoffdundee
      @geoffdundee หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      its the council to blame for putting all these double yellow lines down.......look at the clip from the start and watch the double yellow lines........pedestrianisation also kills shopping areas.

    • @leannan070
      @leannan070 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Aye, it's the same all over Europe!

    • @lfarrell6375
      @lfarrell6375 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Online shopping is available in the east coast of Scotland too. Yet those towns are vibrant and buzzing.

    • @nonapona4773
      @nonapona4773 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@lfarrell6375Could it have something to do with wealth on the east coast??

  • @paulclark1953
    @paulclark1953 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    It is sad kilmarnock is the same 80s,90s clothes shops galore sadly its online shopping that's killed our high streets

    • @RussellGi
      @RussellGi หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      80s and 90s were sandwiched between the 70s monstrosity of the town redevelopment, (which according to my Granny looked nothing like the plans) then building of out of town retail parks in the 00s. Problem with most of Ayrshire is (imo) Irvine. All the investment over a generation went into the new town leaving Ayr Kilmarnock & everywhere else on the slide.

    • @David-ep5om
      @David-ep5om หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@RussellGiThe 80s and 90s were sandwiched between the70s? You're a real brainbox, Russ. No wonder you're recommending Owen Jones books in the comment section 😂

  • @StrawberrySunday212
    @StrawberrySunday212 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Myself and now husband went on our 1st Holiday there for 2 weeks back in 1990. I fell in love with the place. The high street was jumping on a Saturday afternoon/night. But It's like most town centers now, online shopping is killing the wee local businesses.
    We were down there october 2022 staying at the Turnberry hotel and we just had to pop into Girvan. That Indian restaurant Yasmin's is banging. Inside it looks dated, but the food was great. I'd honestly move there in a heartbeat.💙

    • @LOREandEXPLORE
      @LOREandEXPLORE  หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The beach, harbour and the backdrop of hills make Girvan so scenic. It’s really sad that the decay has taken hold of the high street. Its a ghost of itself. 1990.. a great year to visit. Roasting hot summer that year. Turnberry had the senior open that year too. Girvan was thriving back then. Thanks for commenting 👍

    • @bv3bv334
      @bv3bv334 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yasmins is probably one of the worst Indians I've ever eaten in. Awful food. Nearly every curry gets the same sauce 😂

  • @mountain_del1863
    @mountain_del1863 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Heart breaking. Used to have a caravan at the Haven hotel just at the end of the town. It was a lovely, bustling wee town. It looks post apocalyptic now 😢

  • @scot-tish7486
    @scot-tish7486 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Internet shopping has killed the high streets...

    • @geoffdundee
      @geoffdundee หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      thats because folk havent noticed theyre being ripped off yet...........my mate has a high st shop in scotland........ive seen things online selling for £15 that he sells for just £5....he tells me hes making a profit selling it for £5 and can afford to sell for less if he wanted

    • @greenockscatman
      @greenockscatman หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Aye and big shopping centres before that.

  • @alexblue6991
    @alexblue6991 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Largs and Ayr are the same I got a shock how rundown everything was I hadn't been for years

  • @andrewsmith-cm9qw
    @andrewsmith-cm9qw หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I had holidays there and Ayr in the 70s vibrant bustling place so sad and depressing to see it now. Breaks my heart I live in London now but have taken both my daughters there when they were kids wonderful times. I hope and pray that GIRVAN and Ayr can rise from this Malaise and wish both well.

  • @marian6593
    @marian6593 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I was so disappointed to see this. Girvan was a favourite day trip when I was a child in the 1960s & 70s. I especially loved the little boat pond and any time I smell 2 stroke oil it takes me right back there. 😢

  • @Vape636
    @Vape636 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Used to love GIRVAN ❤

  • @cannonfodder6654
    @cannonfodder6654 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    It’s basically like every other Scottish town, Crieff is the same. Empty shops and hotels all being knocked down.

  • @ailsalivingstone5249
    @ailsalivingstone5249 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I like girvan. Mother-in-law law had a caravan there. It may be run down but it still manages to feel less of a shitehole than glasgow centre these days

  • @sloankelly
    @sloankelly หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    It’s sad seeing any town, but that town in particular, going to rack and ruin.

    • @LOREandEXPLORE
      @LOREandEXPLORE  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It’s sure is Sloane. Very sad indeed. It’s a shell of its former self. 🥲

  • @Essydyk
    @Essydyk หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Wow that is so sad - I knew Girvan had hit on hard times but not to this extent.
    Used to love visiting my Aunt and Uncle every summer in the 80s when the place was bustling and an absolute joy for us kids with so much to do and see. Last time I visited in the 90s you could see the rot was already setting in.
    TBH - you could produce a video on just about every Ayrshire town and village and this is what you would see. Absolute disgrace what they have become.

    • @LOREandEXPLORE
      @LOREandEXPLORE  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It’s sad times indeed. It seemed to be on a rocky road once the one way traffic system was introduced around 1994. Same with Ayr high street. Thanks for watching. 👍

  • @KarenaDashfield
    @KarenaDashfield หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What changed? Was the parking on the high street altered? Did they widen the pavement in areas or add double yellow lines? Did a supermarket open in the town? If so, alterations such as I've mentioned usually bring about the demise of a thriving shopping street.

  • @johnleigh349
    @johnleigh349 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Stranraer is the same forgotten since the ferries left

  • @rezhead
    @rezhead 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Very sad. I remember buying the pet shop boys album , actually in Girvan woolies when I was on holiday at sundram castle.

  • @AndrewDrysdale-of4ep
    @AndrewDrysdale-of4ep หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I lived in Barr from 1952 till 1968. Went to Girvan High School in Wesley Road. So sad to see the state of Girvan.. Many great memories.

  • @joebhoyy
    @joebhoyy หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    “50 thousand people used to live here, now it’s a ghost town…”

  • @michaelobrien9825
    @michaelobrien9825 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    WHEREVER YOU GO IN BRITAIN/SCOTLAND EVERY HIGH STREET HAS WENT THE SAME WAY.

  • @johnnymac26
    @johnnymac26 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I love Girvan always have spent many a holiday there pictures of me and my sisters in the boating pond then fish and chips after. last time we went me and mrs mac were kinda sad but its not alone i'm in Hamilton its a total dump and doesn't have the seaside to back it up

    • @LOREandEXPLORE
      @LOREandEXPLORE  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It’s really sad mate. The rot has taken over Dalrymple street completely. Girvan was so scenic. The harbour is empty now. Used to be packed with boats. It’s s ghost of itself. There are still a few chippys left tho. At least the views are still really scenic from the hilltops. That can’t be taken away! 👍

  • @Carol-r5q5s
    @Carol-r5q5s หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Girvan died in the late 1960's, so sad it used to be a lovely place once upon a time.

  • @thehitman1980
    @thehitman1980 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Looks nice compared to somewhere like Coatbridge or Greenock 😂😂😂

  • @johnlundy536
    @johnlundy536 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Used to go to jeancroft caravan site with mum and dad back in 66 to 72 girvan Town centre was a thriving holiday place I went back in 2021 and was very sad to see what it was now iam now 71 what a sin

  • @delboy3425
    @delboy3425 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I remember going to girvan every summer for years and going to the boating pond where they had small petrol boats and you went round and round under small bridges it was brilliant shame to see what it’s become

    • @marian6593
      @marian6593 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The boats are my favourite memory of Girvan too. 😅

  • @StrawberrySunday212
    @StrawberrySunday212 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I've always wanted to move down there to live. And I still would. As even Girvan at it's worse, is better where I am.

    • @JOHNNYCRAIG
      @JOHNNYCRAIG หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Where are you? Must be bad 😢

    • @StrawberrySunday212
      @StrawberrySunday212 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@JOHNNYCRAIG North Lanarkshire. I'd move to Girvan in a heartbeat

    • @JOHNNYCRAIG
      @JOHNNYCRAIG หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes well south Ayrshire is much better to live than north Lanarkshire 😊

    • @StrawberrySunday212
      @StrawberrySunday212 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@JOHNNYCRAIG we were down that way a couple of years ago at a wedding in Trump Turnberry, we went into givan a jaunt and I couldn't get over wee shops closed with no shutters! Here the windows would be rattled and or broken into. And the streets were actually clean...when we got home and looked around at our area i thought, welcome home to this fkn shitehole😔😔

  • @itistimenow7545
    @itistimenow7545 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wow thats changed I worked there for a friend years back fitting a Kitchen....Im from Essex.....it was thriving then had a small department store which seemed to supply pretty much anything....was a new built shop was apparently supposed to be a Tesco Metro...locals found out and Tesco never actually opened it....makes me wonder what happened ....but be honest I have a fair idea....Dont think much of UK is now any different....very sad.....we have a totally corrupt two tier system...that includes all forms of taxation....with the indigenous population largely covering any shortfalls....but all of its a BS scam....the degradation is due to a the indigenous populous being taxed to the hilt

  • @jedlinnen6528
    @jedlinnen6528 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Port Glasgow is worse. The town does not even have an ATM or a bank which recently closed. Activity has relocated to an adjacent Retail Park with plenty of parking spaces but no seating provided for those who arrived on a bus.

  • @danieltainsh9536
    @danieltainsh9536 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I’ve been to Girvan pretty depressing

  • @philipdavenport5246
    @philipdavenport5246 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    When you see plants, shrubs, weeds, bushes and trees growing from the upper stories, roofs & gutters of any high street you know that the town is doomed. You can see it all over Ayrshire, particularly in Ayr itself where the Council occupies itself putting up hanging baskets but could care less about the obvious decay ruining historically and architecturally important buildings in the centre of town.

    • @bv3bv334
      @bv3bv334 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I wince every time I see stuff growing out of blocked gutters. Wife is bored shitless of me banging on about it.

  • @GCStalker
    @GCStalker หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Not true still has some nice wee shops selling seaside holiday things and lovely cafe overlooking harbour. Golf course and boating pond are good.

    • @LOREandEXPLORE
      @LOREandEXPLORE  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Your right in what you say. The boating pond and golf course are still good. The harbour is a ghost of itself. You could more or less step from boat to boat and cross the harbour. All gone now. It’s Dalrymple street that’s been left to rot I’m afraid. Girvan was so scenic. Still is in parts. Thank you for commenting. 👍

  • @willgillies5670
    @willgillies5670 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Girvan was my home from 1992 to 97,

  • @bv3bv334
    @bv3bv334 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    If Girvan was on the south coast it would be a Mecca.

  • @THEWEEGIE74
    @THEWEEGIE74 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Girvan used to love going as a wean in the 80s wae the family..now that I stay down in Ayrshire for 40yr aw towns r the same.pure dives(edit north Ayrshire is full ofvape shops Turkish barbers)😮good for a buzz cut😂

  • @raycarter4030
    @raycarter4030 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    brilliant chippy though

    • @bv3bv334
      @bv3bv334 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Please don't say the Harbour chipper......please. With its soggy chips and oily fish.

  • @ministryofanti-feminism1493
    @ministryofanti-feminism1493 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    To be honest, it's probably not as bad as Ayr.

    • @rosskerr9909
      @rosskerr9909 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ayr still has over 25 bars and restaurants

  • @spangles365
    @spangles365 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    All Scottish towns sadly are heading in the same direction, i'm Scottish and it is an absolute shame to see it. When i was a kid all towns were thriving, sadly no longer the case.

    • @andrewwotherspoona5722
      @andrewwotherspoona5722 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@spangles365 As is every English town only worse!

  • @ianmuir3640
    @ianmuir3640 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Is there anywhere in Scotland that doesn’t have a Turkish barber

  • @D_B_Cooper
    @D_B_Cooper หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ayrshire is in a shocking state I’m sad to say

  • @DavidPeacock1972
    @DavidPeacock1972 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    At least it has a Turkish Barbers 😒

    • @geoffdundee
      @geoffdundee หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      true but theyre always empty so they must be getting an income somewhere else.............either benefits or selling drugs

  • @personperson-w9p
    @personperson-w9p หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    North & South Ayrshire towns are terrible. Councils could encourage small businesses by giving them a period of free rent in the hope of an injection of life into a town but no they would rather see the buildings rot and crumble away. They have a cheek to plant bulbs/flowers in beds nearby, lipstick on a pig !

    • @RussellGi
      @RussellGi หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      East Ayrshire's just as bad. Ayrshire being carved up politically post Strathclyde region into 3 areas, when Fife remained a single area, was absolutely catastrophic on so many levels.

    • @personperson-w9p
      @personperson-w9p หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@RussellGi Yes meant to add the East, all tumble weed regions

    • @BasilBoli-p2d
      @BasilBoli-p2d 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Troon and Prestwick seem to be doing OK.

  • @Hello-hellowearethebillyboys
    @Hello-hellowearethebillyboys หลายเดือนก่อน

    Was born in girvan 1984 what a tip it is now.

  • @user-jg2nq6ll4c
    @user-jg2nq6ll4c หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    What do expect after decades of the SNP being in power???????

    • @stuartmacdonald9289
      @stuartmacdonald9289 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You can't lay the blame solely at the feet of the SNP. Labour did not invest in the area either.

  • @scottcraig6381
    @scottcraig6381 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I driven around a lot of uk town centres and the only city that’s always neat tidy clean and sees a lot of investment is London….go figure!!!

  • @nastyham5302
    @nastyham5302 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The chip shops are rotten too

  • @nonapona4773
    @nonapona4773 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Are you local to girvan??

    • @LOREandEXPLORE
      @LOREandEXPLORE  13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I grew up in Girvan in the 80’s and 90’s. It’s so sad to come back to my home town and see the changes. I’ve spoke to many friends who grew up in this era, and they have the same thoughts. Honestly, that’s why i found It painful to film. What Girvan used to be and now is.. 😢

    • @nonapona4773
      @nonapona4773 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @LOREandEXPLORE I can absolutely understand and felt your same sadness ,,,90's and early 00's was when I grew up .
      I stopped last summer on a Sunday and caught the end of music on the prom in Girvan,,it's probably the best thing the town has going for it, the seafront and boating pond was mobbed ,the town was beautiful in the good weather.

  • @rosskerr9909
    @rosskerr9909 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Am from Kilbirnie…Ayrshire is a wasteland 😢

    • @LOREandEXPLORE
      @LOREandEXPLORE  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Definitely It’s really bad. 🥲

    • @kopie7717
      @kopie7717 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hope your keeping well Ross, we had some quality patter back in our Garnock days 😂

    • @rosskerr9909
      @rosskerr9909 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kopie7717 I’ve still got it 🕺😎

  • @heatherbruce4496
    @heatherbruce4496 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    So sad

  • @farmersboy
    @farmersboy หลายเดือนก่อน

    Would be nice to see this without that colour-muting filter in place.

  • @ianking8315
    @ianking8315 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    every main street is the same in ayrshire just not girvan.

  • @andrewwotherspoona5722
    @andrewwotherspoona5722 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Tbh. There are much worse places in England

    • @RussellGi
      @RussellGi หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Dunno about that mate. If one looks at GDP / life expectancy in Ayrshire v England, you'll find something is very very wrong. Granted the scenery might be better in Ayrshire, but the poverty is off the chart - and I'm just back from a trip through Lancashire to Blackpool - arguably the most deprived town in England.

    • @IanGillespie-ze6ek
      @IanGillespie-ze6ek หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That's something the SNP would say.

    • @andrewwotherspoona5722
      @andrewwotherspoona5722 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @ It’s also something based upon facts. There are no Scottish areas of multiple deprivation that have a worse ranking than in England… particularly for childhood poverty! This is just propaganda.

    • @IanGillespie-ze6ek
      @IanGillespie-ze6ek หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@andrewwotherspoona5722 my point was 2 wrongs don't make a right , anyone can manipulate the figures to suit their narrative

    • @andrewwotherspoona5722
      @andrewwotherspoona5722 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @ Yes, but the facts are England is worse. I’m sick and tired of this BS that Scotland is worse than England when the facts say contrary. Show me the statistics that Ayr is worse than the worst parts of England and I’ll sell you a banana boat!

  • @Pedro90000
    @Pedro90000 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Looks better than sauchiehall street tbh 😂😂

  • @thepm3972
    @thepm3972 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Asda killed it. Still has great folks though. Shame

  • @jimthomson932
    @jimthomson932 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Can still smell videoscene

  • @cnoc500
    @cnoc500 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Essentially could be any High Street in west central Scotland.
    A victim of too many years of SNP governance.

  • @boomtish4520
    @boomtish4520 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Looks fine

  • @AnthonyClegg-d2v
    @AnthonyClegg-d2v หลายเดือนก่อน

    Cameron and Osbornes fault.

  • @djspatrick
    @djspatrick หลายเดือนก่อน

    So fed up with this AI fakery.

  • @ZooScott
    @ZooScott หลายเดือนก่อน

    🆘 Architectural Vandalism 💥 “ DISASTER CAPITALISM “ they sold oot .

  • @grahamwilkinson3351
    @grahamwilkinson3351 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I remember girvan in the 70s lived at 41 motehill road the harbour was always busy Glasgow fair girvan was always busy sutch a shame to see it now a revisit a few years ago the vouge was still standing the beach pavilion had gone fishing boats were virtually none existing the Davidson hospital boarded up kings arms no longer the hotel it was so much changed spent my final school days at girvan academy happy days .