Publisher's Synopsis
This Ayrshire town grew from a large village centred on coal and agriculture to a major industrial centre in the 19th and 20th centuries. Companies established in Kilmarnock included BMK carpets, Saxone shoes, Barclay railway locomotives, Glenfield and Kennedy water valves, and Johnnie Walker whisky. Johnnie's boots were made for walking, and his whisky and the other products listed were exported in vast numbers and quantities worldwide. It's hard to believe now. The industry has mostly gone, and the town is eerily forlorn and enduring civic intervention. Except for a few other survivors, this book is mainly a litany of Kilmarnock No More in the days when it was awash with jobs and before almost everyone worked for the council.
