Here is some up to date footage(as off 26th February 2024) showing the progress of the demolition work being carried out at Ayr's Station hotel in the heart of the town.
Amazing filming. The flying and editing are spot on. I was down in Ayr yesterday flying and noticed the Hotel such a Sad thing to see. I remember it when I was a child. How things have changed. Well done
What a sad sight. It was such a grand building and the first thing you saw at the station. Ayrshire has changed, but not for the better. The area has lost a lot of heritage. Was it deliberate, was it negligence? I grew up in Kilwinning and my old hometown has been decimated with building and redesign. Can't things be restored and left alone?
Excellent and appropriate music for such a tragic situation. All because a cowardly Council (of all political colours) did not get a grip of the situation that festered for years. A once-handsome county town is going doon the lavvy week-by-week.
Certainly. This building could indeed have been preserved, and it should have been. The council had already made plans for its demolition long before any of these events occurred as the site had long been earmarked for a new transport hub for quite some time. The ODEON site was also intended to be part of this transport hub with a new bus station on that site. That process began with the demolition of Burns House offices, and the removal of the ODEON cinemas' listed building status a few years ago. Fortunately, Merlin Cinemas have intervened and taken over the building, saving it from being lost, for now. Nevertheless, it is sad that we have now lost the largest and grandest railway building in the entire southwest of Scotland, and perhaps even the entire west coast.
Amazing filming. The flying and editing are spot on. I was down in Ayr yesterday flying and noticed the Hotel such a Sad thing to see. I remember it when I was a child. How things have changed. Well done
Very kind of you
What a sad sight. It was such a grand building and the first thing you saw at the station. Ayrshire has changed, but not for the better. The area has lost a lot of heritage. Was it deliberate, was it negligence? I grew up in Kilwinning and my old hometown has been decimated with building and redesign. Can't things be restored and left alone?
Yes it was started deliberately a few times prior to the last one in September 2023
Excellent and appropriate music for such a tragic situation. All because a cowardly Council (of all political colours) did not get a grip of the situation that festered for years. A once-handsome county town is going doon the lavvy week-by-week.
Thank you
Certainly. This building could indeed have been preserved, and it should have been. The council had already made plans for its demolition long before any of these events occurred as the site had long been earmarked for a new transport hub for quite some time. The ODEON site was also intended to be part of this transport hub with a new bus station on that site. That process began with the demolition of Burns House offices, and the removal of the ODEON cinemas' listed building status a few years ago. Fortunately, Merlin Cinemas have intervened and taken over the building, saving it from being lost, for now.
Nevertheless, it is sad that we have now lost the largest and grandest railway building in the entire southwest of Scotland, and perhaps even the entire west coast.