Who Do You Think You Are?

In search of family history we set off to find Emma’s ancestral pile ‘The Skeldon Estate’ near Dalrymple in Ayrshire. Our investigations unveil that the house and estate are up for sale at £6.95 million but sadly for us we can not find anyone around the estate to furnish us with details as to how progress any claims that Emma may have to the stately pile, although we do make good use of the owners absence and capture some snaps of the elegant staircase and grandiose entrance built by Duke of Portland in 1867.

With our dreams of instant wealth shattered we drive west to Girvan on the Ayrshire coast where we encounter exceptionally strong winds as we park by the magnificent beach in a town that now looks past it’s heyday of the 50s and 60s when everyone and their granny escaped the industrial squalor of Glasgow and the west central belt and headed for the Ayrshire coast. Although the town may have seen better days the views across to Ailsa Craig (Paddies Milestone) can never be replaced and make the sojourn to this neglected port worth the effort.