Author: Neil Sinclair
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The Richness of the Clyde Fishery
A vivid description of the fishing in the Clyde estuary during the early 20th century. The fishermen of Dunure get high praise!
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Fisher Folk of Carrick
Full of interesting information about the fishing heritage of Dunure and other villages down the Carrick coast, you can read details of the fishing life and the contribution of Dunure fishermen.
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Hazardous queue for Craig Tara
Ridiculous traffic jam. This is now a dangerous situation. Not only is the length of the queue unacceptable, not only is this an inconvenience for local residents, but this a worrying problem.How can emergency services get past a mile-long queue in a two carriageway road? Here’s the link to the complaints page for Ayrshire Roads…
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School Holidays
Congratulations to all children in Dunure – Freedom!!! Dates for the rest of the year and 2026:
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Plans for Speed Bumps
These are the original plans for the speed bumps at Fisherton Primary and Castle Road. The plan above clearly set out a length of the raised section of the speed table as 2420mm with a ramp length of 750mm and the height of the raised section as 60mm. It’s immediately obvious that what has been…
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Dunure’s fishing history – 1950s
Fascinating extract from the Scottish Statistical Account of 1951 with not only facts and figures from the 1950s but going back to the ‘Provost of Dunure’ and the 1920s. Salmon were included in the fish caught – still plentiful in those days. Additionally there were 5 kippering stations on the Ayrshire coast.
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Speed Bumps
Apr 3, 2025 from Angus Craig on Facebook Traffic calming We have raised the issue of the speed bump outside the school as it appears not to have been constructed as per the plans. Secondly, the most southerly island created on Castle Road is clearly going to block access to the vacant plot, we have…
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Dynamic Dunure Public Meeting November 2022
Minutes of meeting held on 15th November 2022. I had to trawl through Facebook to find these minutes: these are the only ones I could find. The first file is the minutes as seen on Facebook, the second those same minutes tidied up on the computer.
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Meeting Saturday 5th April
Dynamic Dunure Meeting between 2-4 pm Saturday, 5th April, Kennedy Hall. Summary: The proposal is to build a visitor and community centre costing more than £3 Million. Is a top-spec visitor centre really what the village needs? Would investing in the harbour and lighthouse benefit the village more? Should car parking be included in the…