SPW051057 SCOTLAND (1936). Ayr, general view, showing Seafield Drive and Seafield Hospital. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing east.

Seafield House, the home of Sir William Arrol until his death in 1913. William Arrol, aged 9, started work in a cotton mill in 1848, later becoming a blacksmith: '... by 1872 he had established his own business, the Dalmarnock Iron Works, in the east end of the city (Glasgow). The business evolved to become Sir William Arrol & Co., a large international civil engineering business. Projects undertaken ... under his leadership included the replacement for the Tay Bridge (completed in 1887), the Forth Bridge (completed in 1890) and Tower Bridge (completed in 1894). He was also contracted by the Harland and Wolff Shipyard, Belfast, to construct a large gantry (known as the Arrol Gantry) for the construction of three new super-liners, ...Titanic, Olympic and Britannic. Wikipedia - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Arrol. The house became a hospital during the First World War and later a children's hospital, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seafield_Children%27s_Hospital Arrol was knighted in 1890

Carwinshoch View

Auchentrae Crescent

Auchendoon Crescent

Arrol Drive

Seafield Drive