Places of Interest about Girvan By
Rev. R. Lawson (1892)
Prefatory Note
This book, like Places of
Interest about Maybole, took its origin from my Monthly Letters. In these,
I have been in the habit of giving sketches of the more interesting places
in the neighbourhood, illustrated by drawings provided for me by various
obliging friends. During the last two years I have been engaged in sketching
the places of interest about Girvan, my native town, and now that I have
finished these, I have thought it right to gather them into a volume, that
the two towns, in one or other of which most of my life has been spent, may
be equally recognised by me in such fashion as I am enabled.
As to the drawings, which
form such an attractive feature of the volume, I may mention that most of
them have been furnished by my friend Mr Robert Bryden, A.R.P.E., South
Kensington, London, who has all along freely helped me in the books I have
written. Nine of them have been furnished by my young friend and townsman,
Mr William Bone, Architect, Kilmarnock, who has also been forward with his
pencil in lending me assistance. The drawing of Bennan Head was sketched by
a lady friend, once resident in the neighbourhood; that of the Hole in the
Rock by Miss Gray, Lendal School; and that of Lendal Bay by a native of
Maybole, Mr David M'Gill, London, from a painting by Mr William Muir,
Girvan.
Any one who looks on the
book, and remembers the necessarily limited constituency to which it
appeals, must see that it is not published for profit. It is published for
the good of such people in the district as have a taste for the history of
it, and to these, young and old, it is inscribed with my hearty good wishes.
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