DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED IN 2007?

Did you know we’ve got all our back issues online? All the way back to 2007 with a couple even older than that! I received a notification that one of our online issues (Jan 2008) hadn’t been looked at for some time and would be taken down, so a quick review and a share on facebook got that one reactivated. In reading through the January 2008 issue, I noticed that I had commented on the completion of extensions at both Gryffe High and Houston Primary schools. Also, the three new sets of traffic lights: 1. Houston Road / Kilmacolm Rd, Bridge of Weir; 2. Torr Road / Main St, Bridge of Weir; 3. Magnus Road / Houston Rd, Houston. The traffic lights may not be perfect, but it’s hard now to remember how awful these junctions were before.

By the end of 2007, the new gym at Birkmyre Park, Kilmacolm was almost complete and in Lochwinnoch the Community Buy-out Group was awarded the ‘right to buy’ the former Struthers bottling plant, while the dangerous junction at the Beith Road was being sorted out with a new roundabout. Sadly the Struthers purchase didn’t go ahead and that building still sits empty, but the new roundabout at the Beith Road is a huge improvement.