Barrfields/Vikingar Putting Green - Largs
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Barrfields/Vikingar Putting Green - Largs
Image: © Ian Rainey Taken: 9 Jun 2018
On the site of Mansefield House in Largs, North Ayrshire, Scotland, originally given to the Largs Town Council in the 1920s, now owned by North Ayrshire Council and a leisure trust. The council subsequently built an extensive walled rose garden, a children's playpark, a theatre, meeting rooms, tearooms, a putting green and a sports ground (home to Largs Thistle). Only the sports ground, putting green and theatre remain. From 1971 to 1973, much of the site was redeveloped into the Barrfields Sport and Leisure Centre, which became part of the Vikingar! Visitor and Leisure Centre. Info from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrfields The putting green was used during WWII as a maintenance area for amphibian and flying boats which landed and berthed between Millport and Largs and the ramp used for getting them out of the water is now used by the RNLI Station situated across the road from the putting green
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Image Location
Latitude
55.80057
Longitude
-4.868794