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As a poultry fancier, I had a happy association with Girvan and its amiable characters. Good friends like Willie &Jim Pitt, Jimmy Wylei and Willie Nicholl. Happy memories that will last forever.

Was born in Girvan 1984. Motehill road loyal. Moved out when my parents separated. Went a run down about a year ago, nothing to offer anyone now. Shame.

There isn’t a shortage of shops, there’s a shortage of people. How many watching this prefer to shop on amazon or at the local supermarket? This isn’t peculiar to Girvan or anywhere else; it’s peculiar to the era we are in. I’m not into nostalgia trips since it seems to me most people who indulge are nostalgic about being young more than anything else. The 1970s were dire at the time and statistics show people were generally much poorer back then - most women were basically reduced to domestic servitude roles, their bread-winning husbands essentially forced to do terrible jobs in mines and such (hardly surprising that so many took to drink). You should do a video about how much better things are today; it would be a lot easier.

Your talking rhetoric 💩when did you film this pish early on a Sunday morning cars and tankers going past you muted the sound , pouring scorn on another Scottish town abdolute 💩💩💩💩💩

Edit: having compared it using another video, I would say that even my comment in terms of the stores being of lower quality is probably off... yes, like most of Scotland it is past it's peak, but than, Scotland's peak was in the 19th century or earlier as a whole, with only a few towns on the rise in terms of activity... seems like there is a lot of pleasantness in the various parks and architecture with still a great multitude of such activities as require not shops and cash, as well as it does seem, quite a nicely active harbor... once you get out of the slightly run-down portion of town, you come across areas which are reasonably vibrant for a small community... indeed, a few activities do seem to exist which are "resort like" and some of the shops are quite upscale... viewed in the setting of being a rural place, it seems the town is at least fairly plodding along.

see other comment for a more rounded view... by purely looks of this video however, whilst it does have somewhat less shops the more prevalent thing is that so many of the shops around are businesses of poverty so to speak... cheap chippies and discount stores, maybe a few somewhat better curry shops, but again, of the lowest variety in terms of seating and furnishings... possibly a few hotel/B&Bs & the bank are the only buildings which actually carry the old grandeur on into the commercial premises... to say this, one must remember the old camera sought that which was beautiful & gallant, whether as the new camera searches for things that will cause concern and ache... so, we must understand the different purpose of the authors... the old (start of the century) city too, would have had such areas of deprivation & poverty, possibly more so than today,(a fishing village is rarely rich) thinking of the towns in Fife for reference, there were spots of squalor, but, these were slums, & would have stayed out of the picture... the narrow backyard tenements unseen from the streets.... small huts around the harbor itself... my guess is, Girvan too would have had those, and the fact that they were hidden is both better & worse.

Doesn't look too bad to me. As for the closed shops, I'm speaking from England, well, Girvan looks hardly different from what the town centres, and high streets, of many substantially larger towns down here look like. Girvan has a lovely railway station, art deco, as I recall.

Thanks for this ❤

Maybe worse or better now with the new bypass

WE USED TO HAVE A CARAVAN AT CROY BEACH AT WE ALWAYS CAME TO GIRVAN .IT WAS A GREAT WEE SEASIDE TOWN .

Anybody remember the helta skelta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✌️ family had a caravan just outside Ballentra, old snib, looks like a ghost town, very sad ✌️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Very interesting concept Craig. It really makes your point when viewed with the reversed photos. Girvan still has a lot to offer and my wife and I visit regularly, but I guess all things are relative - we come from East Ayrshire.

Maly's Cafe was my dad's shoe shop 1940's to 1950.We lived in the apartment above.

Loved visiting there in the 70s had a great swimming pool and fabulous fish and chips

Anyone know a Jim hallam from girvan?

I got my first penknife in Girvan around 1968.

We used to take a farm cottage for summer in 1950's.

Went to Girvan for 2 weeks back in the 70s, rained every day.😢

Absolutely loved my holidays in Girvan in the early 1970's, great memories so sad to see it this way.

Volume dude.

This is my hometown which I left 44 years ago, its to all intents and purposes unrecognisable now. Such a shame, it truly has been "hung out to dry", very sad.