Growing up in kilmarnock was brilliant, sadly now all the factory's are gone Johnnie Walker gone town centre is shocking such a shame riddled with junkies..
You’d never see something like this again. The town centre just filled with drug addicts, delinquents and the depressing townscape with little to no retail opportunities
Born there in 1958. Gibson Street, lived with my Gran who worked in Johnnie Walkers. Dad work for British Relay on the Western Road. Sad to see it's demise over the years really I think from 1966 onwards. Those town councilors in the parade need to be ashamed. Miss the Baths on a Saturday morning near the Fire Station. (wave machine)
Never seen a soul I knew since I left in 1966,Kilmarnock was a lovely town.Doing away with the Cross and making no cars through wasted Kilmarnock I enjoyed watching just the same.
Blame EAC, they're still making a mess; instead of using the insurance money to rebuild the Burns monument after it was burned down, they built offices that look a public toilet.
Looks like it was a grand day. A shopping mall was considered to represent progress then. A pity it took the destruction of so much of the part of the town that I grew up in.
Was this the mid-70's I presume? I hail from Hurlford and was born in 1974 so I don't remember the pre- concrete Killie. Cheers for posting (great footage).
Was it Duke Street they tore down in the 70's to make way for the Mall? My Dad (who was born in 1946) remembers the way it used to be. I remember my late mum used to drag me round the old market on a Saturday (at the top of the foregate) back in the early 80's.
Now it's a junkie center need to knock it down with the multistory car park build shops that look like the ones in bank Street old shop fronts police need to do the junkies for harassing and breach of the peace council should be ashamed of what they have done to town centre
Growing up in kilmarnock was brilliant, sadly now all the factory's are gone Johnnie Walker gone town centre is shocking such a shame riddled with junkies..
You’d never see something like this again. The town centre just filled with drug addicts, delinquents and the depressing townscape with little to no retail opportunities
Born there in 1958. Gibson Street, lived with my Gran who worked in
Johnnie Walkers. Dad work for British Relay on the Western Road.
Sad to see it's demise over the years really I think from 1966 onwards.
Those town councilors in the parade need to be ashamed.
Miss the Baths on a Saturday morning near the Fire Station. (wave machine)
Never seen a soul I knew since I left in 1966,Kilmarnock was a lovely town.Doing away with the Cross and making no cars through wasted Kilmarnock I enjoyed watching just the same.
Blame EAC, they're still making a mess; instead of using the insurance money to rebuild the Burns monument after it was burned down, they built offices that look a public toilet.
Where did you move to ??.
they all died kilmarnocks life expectancy is 23
The folk responsible for the eyesore we call a town centre
I like the way the town looked before they knocked down the old streets. The Burns Mall is an absolute joke of a shopping centre anyway.
Killie back in the day....loved goin there at the weekend....excellent wee reminder
Great wee slice of Killie history. Thanks for the upload!
Is that you Liam Donnelly
The people who killed Kilmarnock, they have a lot to answer for.
The people off Kilmarnock killed the town. These people tried to make it better
This must have been when the Burns Mall (or Kilmarnock Centre) was officially opened.
Very beautiful ❤🌹
It is sadly now, an addict ridden pigsty of a place.
The Burns Mall was opened by Mrs William Ross, Saturday 23rd October 1976. I would have been 8y/o and in P4 at primary school. Yeah baby!
Ps, fascinating footage, thanks for filming and / or uploading it :-)
Does anyone know where this video is taken from? I'm keen to get a tape of this
Looks like it was a grand day. A shopping mall was considered to represent progress then. A pity it took the destruction of so much of the part of the town that I grew up in.
Was this the mid-70's I presume? I hail from Hurlford and was born in 1974 so I don't remember the pre- concrete Killie. Cheers for posting (great footage).
You could still drive around The Cross roundabout into King Street in 1974-75... think it changed the following year.
Was it Duke Street they tore down in the 70's to make way for the Mall? My Dad (who was born in 1946) remembers the way it used to be. I remember my late mum used to drag me round the old market on a Saturday (at the top of the foregate) back in the early 80's.
Have you got archives from the 80s and the 90s, perhaps early 2000s?
Early 70s.
The only faces I recognised were Pipe Major Hughie Gordon and our MP Willie Ross.
Folk are bloody nice in Kilmarnock. Better than Glasgow. Take it, the start of the footage is at the top of King Street?
Now it's a junkie center need to knock it down with the multistory car park build shops that look like the ones in bank Street old shop fronts police need to do the junkies for harassing and breach of the peace council should be ashamed of what they have done to town centre
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