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Kirkbride Crescent, MAYBOLE, KA19 7RQ

The house behind the hedge in Kirkmichael Road used to be the village Police Office. The village Bobby and his family lived in the main part of the house. The public office was the smaller part of the building, on the left. There's no village Bobby these days!

The windfarm-funded North Carrick Community Benefit Company set up a resilience group to help local people through the Coronavirus crisis. The green notice in this house window indicates that the residents are all right. The other side of the notice, shown in red, says that help is needed. Local NCCBC volunteers respond quickly to these red notices. The company also issued every household with printed vouchers to the value of £20, exchangeable to the end of June in a wide range of local shops. This represents an injection of £100,000 into the local community.

Crosshill's Field of Hope was planted in 2012 in support of the Marie Curie Cancer Care charity. In these days of Coronavirus lockdown, the daffodils are specially symbolic of hope and new growth. The village play park is shown in the background, out of bounds at present.

Many of the older properties in Crosshill have been changed over the years. The non-matching windows on this frontage indicate a change of use. The left hand side of the building, with the larger window, started as a shop. The shop door was on the left of the shop window, where the low-level ventilator is located. The shopkeeper and his family lived in the adjoining house.

The autumn arrival of hungry northern birds promoted a real interest in the Rowan berries. The garden berry crop became steadily depleted, finally cleaned up by some local Jackdaws. The whole process took only about a week. Hawthorn berries are still plentiful but they don’t seem to be as tasty as the Rowans.