Down a steep short hill in Stair, sharp left and..
sharp right over the narrow bridge which crosses the river Ayr.
Looking downriver there are the remains of a footbridge
Turn up a little lane and there is a herd (?) of alpacas!
This is a new lane for us (even for the Pirate after 27 years here!) and makes a big loop across to another road we know.
Down to another bridge across the Ayr...
looking across to a railway viaduct, then back across the road bridge
Up out of the valley then turn onto a smaller road....
Just because the water wasn't piped into the houses, and the privies were outside....a community was destroyed
A railway bridge this time, leading to Killoch coal washery
This is in the village of Springs, just along from Woodside
House names that have proper meanings....
You can see Arran, there is a cairn on a hill/mound....
and Woodside....in Welsh....??
I wonder why.
A short ride with many bridges, the last one a mile from home that goes over the main A70...and with only 4 metres headroom large lorries make a detour through our village.
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So much past destroyed everywhere. The director of the national park chided me, that no park visitor's visit would be enhanced by knowing 400 people lost their homes to the park.
But then in 1953 things were very different. A woman would almost certainly give up her job if she married, and if not then certainly the moment she became pregnant. If you happened to be a man and expressed your love for another man then you could be jailed, if you survived the beating that most people considered you deserved. The idea that arbitrary decisions could be taken over other people's lives, simply because they had and outside privy would seem almost natural in that environment.
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