KILMARNOCK'S OLD INDUSTRIES 9781840339673 BRAND NEW
This Ayrshire town grew from a large village centred on coal and agriculture to a major industrial centre in the 19th and 20th centuries. Companies established in Kilmarnock included BMK carpets, Saxone shoes, Barclay railway locomotives, Glenfield and Kennedy water valves, and Johnnie Walker whisky. Johnnie\u2019s boots were made for walking, and his whisky and the other products listed were exported in vast numbers and quantities worldwide. It\u2019s hard to believe now. The industry has mostly gone, and the town is eerily forlorn and enduring civic intervention. Dean Quarry is now part of a \u2018country park\u2019 within the town (what we used to call a park), Craig\u2019s pottery works is houses, and the Massey Harris tractor works shed 1,500 jobs when it closed in 1980. Thomas S Cunningham\u2019s nylon factory made Nike stockings long before an American shoe company nicked the name, but Kilmarnock had its own shoe factory and lots of engineering works. It's not all doom and glo.
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