Museum Represents a museum WC No EventsForChildren No Place The town or city Ayr HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear No DisabledAccess No OpeningTime1 Meet at The Cenotaph in Wellington Square, 14:00 - 16:00 IsNewThisYear No ID Google Panorama ID 16976 Refreshments No Street The street address The Cenotaph AddressLine2 Wellingston Square Postcode KA7 1EN Parking No DisabledWC No LimitedAccess No NotAccessible No Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Guided Walk: Ayr Town Centre Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived ayrshire Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 785 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,55.86362,-4.261207; Description An account of the resource This popular walk explores the civic, commercial and religious history of the town centre. It will cover the two Civil War leaders, Frederick Douglass and Ulysses S Grant, who separately visited the town and paid homage to Robert Burns. We shall look at forgotten people such as William Maclure and James McCosh; justice for the gentry in the 16th century and compare that with justice for the poor in the 18th century; and tell stories of Gilbert Kennedy, 4th Earl of Cassillis and the impoverished Margaret Crossan, last woman to be hanged in Ayr. From Wellington Square, the walk visits High Street, the Auld Brig, Town Hall, Police Cells and Courtroom, Academy Lane and its links with smuggling, the Relief Church, John Murdoch?s schoolroom and ends back at the Square. Tour lasts 2 hours.