I remember walking along the seacoast from Stevenston to Saltcoats. The downtown was bustling and everyone was on the pavement shopping. Woolworth's was open then. By 1979, the last time I was back in Scotland it had all changed. The name came from 'salt cots' - as making salt by evaporating sea water was a cottage industry made in private cottage homes at the time. My mother's relatives owned the Station Hotel back then and I had pudding in the big kitchen often, cooked by my granny's sister. I saw Bambi at the Regal when I was a tot. Girls used to come 'round the seats with ice cream and cigarettes. The Glasgow fair every Summer benefitted local industry and that was also gone by the early 1980s. Thank you so much for posting this video. It brings back so many pleasant memories.
@russtimmer685120 күн бұрын
Come on sooo good!
@GeorgeZ-p2r23 күн бұрын
2024?
@bombski5657Ай бұрын
Great video, remember reading about this in one of those Scottish murder books years ago on holiday on Arran. The grave of Edwin Rose is an interesting stop on the way up Glen Sannox.
@user-nx8ii4ef7fАй бұрын
I lived there when the planners allowed a huge ugly supermarket to be built in the harbour...1997? crazy!
@nbuehsterАй бұрын
1:25 If I was singing this, I would change that line to "I'm one can short of a six pack". (based on the title of a comedy album I have)
@catarinarebelovaz2802Ай бұрын
This is my Queen FV Song for 2 years! I´m happy to found this video again. 😂🤣😂
@user-sl3oc3ik5cАй бұрын
Interesting. I am from the West coast of Scotland myself and I have visited Arran many times. This is the first time I have heard about this particular murder and I think Laurie is guilty. Thanks for this information.
@kingdon942 ай бұрын
witches Lynn yer telt
@JasonQuinn-qq4om2 ай бұрын
Kick ass Movie with Kick ass song
@gracemclaughlan92292 ай бұрын
There’s a place in the old cemetery in Saltcoats it’s a plaque that supposedly said the witches burning place.
@aidanlynn2 ай бұрын
Hi Grace, Yeah this is the plaque featured in the video but sadly it’s badly eroded away and impossible to read.
@gracemclaughlan92292 ай бұрын
@@aidanlynn I know I pass it a lot.always try to see if I can see anything.i wonder if there’s anything inside of the museum that tells you what it said before it eroded.
@andrasmarq50212 ай бұрын
This is fantastic. Thank you.
@davidhowie8002 ай бұрын
RIP lads God bless all who venture underground from a son of the Dailly coal feilds South Ayrshire.
@TVAyrshire2 ай бұрын
Excellent reading of a really touching poem!
@aidanlynn2 ай бұрын
Thanks
@fusion29783 ай бұрын
We were always told Wallace lost a finger during his battle there, and that is why his Ghost is said to visit the remains.
@fusion29783 ай бұрын
Played here as a kid and later stayed next too it and had no real idea about its very dark history. very interesting. Thank you for this wee video.
@fusion29783 ай бұрын
Great wee story, is there some kind of book or booklet giving more details about the history of Witches and other occult in Saltcoats?
@aidanlynn3 ай бұрын
Most of the info came from one wee paragraph in the book Legendary Ayrshire which you can get online.
@Hydrophish4 ай бұрын
Anyone else excited for the Tony Martin boxed set coming out, called Anno Domini?
@aidanlynn3 ай бұрын
Hello yes!
@AmIDeadYet4 ай бұрын
Haven't been in Saltcoats since i was very young. Is it worth visiting now? I was in Troon about a year ago and there ain't much there for visitors. Was like a retirement town.
@SuddenStorm9824 ай бұрын
Brilliant album and song 🤘
@Sportsnight-k8o4 ай бұрын
brilliant video. many thanks.
@user-nx8ii4ef7f5 ай бұрын
I never realised that it was 52' tall!
@glesgapal5 ай бұрын
Well done and well made.. I kind of remember that we had a big Albion moving van parked in Saltcoats for our family coming from Glasgow for the Fair. 1955 to 1959 then or caravan mysteriously burned down. 😢.
@TheAltarOfMadness5 ай бұрын
This inspired me to make my own video with the same song... i did not rip yours off at all though lol
@RM.bricks5 ай бұрын
This woulve been so cool to explore
@Ang3lz4reb0rnz2 ай бұрын
It was knocked down I think the end of last year I live right next to it and it’s so scary cuase I had to drive past it or walk past it to get home
@TheAltarOfMadness5 ай бұрын
Sick
@a4aartforarchitecture206 ай бұрын
Thanks for making this video, well done.
@Kal-ir9ze6 ай бұрын
I read this story many years ago in a school book. I wonder where this site was.
@janstrapina6 ай бұрын
Great magical and hypnotical Heavy rock/metal hymn and cool video!!!!!!!🤘🤘🤘🎸🎸🎸
@Kal-ir9ze7 ай бұрын
Interesting video
@mytmouse577 ай бұрын
I am not at all a fan of the Tony Martin era. I'm all about the Ozzy and Dio incarnations of Black Sabbath. But damn, this is an awesome song!
@z-z-z-z5 ай бұрын
Tony Martin era = Tony Iommi Solo, not Black Sabbath...
@marioncampbell21568 ай бұрын
My mum worked there as an auxiliary nurse for years. Later on I worked there for a short time as a cleaner. What a sad place.
@EpicVision68 ай бұрын
Queen❤❤❤
@Jonnyboysclipz8 ай бұрын
I live were the the hospital used to be
@user-oq8nf4bd6n9 ай бұрын
Well done. It brought back great memories of being brought up In Saltcoats in the 50s and 60s.. I lived in Parkend Road then Dockhead Street but moved away in 1972. Have had the odd day visit to the town in recent years. It's a shame the way the town has gone as it was once a thriving place. The shops were mainly family run: the likes of Duncans, Wilkies and Fullertons where my dad was manager. And I remember having a season ticket for the Saltcoats Bathing Station. Finally, we played football on "The Braes" before the flats were built. Have you any more where that came from?
@krystalgorman869 ай бұрын
Im Fae Dundee & I Love Stories About Witches & Really Enjoyed This Wee Bit Of History From Scotland So Thanks For Posting
@pansypotter49 ай бұрын
My mum worked there for years, there was a man who lived there his whole life who had nothing wrong with him, he was there so long that he couldn't leave.
@allwrighty10012 күн бұрын
Was it Big John? I grew up near there, at the moor and Big John would walk down past us every day. I was just a kid but my mum told me that he once said to her that some people called him stupid but he was getting 3 meals a day and had his own room. How could that be stupid? I'm 60 now, so I'm going back a while.
@user-dn9dz2td9b9 ай бұрын
twas my great grandfather Robert Cook, who discovered the sircophagus when he worked for the town council
@dallmannemanuel948010 ай бұрын
Exelente trabalho!
@RossParker187710 ай бұрын
Fascinating story. Thanks for sharing
@macdaddybender10 ай бұрын
Very good, but we need more Adrienne Barbeau if you know what I mean
@livvymunro192910 ай бұрын
Born and brought up in Saltcoats. Lovely memories in the video. I never realised till I married someone from the east coast that we pronounced street names in a funny way. Windmill St, Dockhead St, Countess St, Bradshaw St - the accent was always on the second syllable. I wonder why?
@joe1842510 ай бұрын
Nice videos 👍
@rmoneymusic878811 ай бұрын
This is badass🤘
@user-zc8bt7uk7c11 ай бұрын
I was brought up in ardrossan,saltcoats area during the war years. This brought back many happy memories. I’ve lived in Canada the past 60+ years, but still have a soft spot for Scotland.
@dougie6886 Жыл бұрын
Excellent, well presented and interesting
@mariamackintosh6816 Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for such a nostalgic, lovely video. I used to go to Saltcoats as a child with my aunt, and stayed at a B and B, which I always remember had a huge gong in the hallway which was struck to get everyone up in the morning. It was such lovely holidays there, and I remember building sand castles, and playing in the rock pools. Thanks again for such a wonderful video of reminiscing.
@georgedavis-stewart4225 Жыл бұрын
Very interesting, if occasionally melodramatic. My mother worked here as a cook for a couple of years in the mid 1950s before going into the licenced trade.
@paulineforfar4072 Жыл бұрын
So sad to see it what it was like to seeing it today, it could be a fab holiday resort if council put money into it, the beaches are lovely and holidayed there this year after 15 years and felt it was so tired, 😢