Irvin Clifford says

Hey Gordy,

think you have been told a few dodgy stories there bud about the location of the town tip,before the park was a park it was Crawfords farm,not the coup,the pool was not built on top of any sort of rubbish tip,so dunno who told you that but its wrong and I know of one tip which is next to the cycle track in the fields right next to the cycle track where the path from Stoneyholm Road goes to the industrial estate be glad to show you if you want.

The only common ground which I know of in Kilbirnie is where Jennings Gardens now is and thats up the Largs Road.

Gordy S says

Thanks mate , appreciate the reply . I looked at the old parish records from 1930 ( the oldest I could get ) and the tip was on Kilbirnie common .. I couldn't find the common on any map however , should have posted here ! . If Jennings gardens are the new ones on the Largs road then certainly that was a tip at some stage , certainly in the 60's , but could quite possibly have been the one from the 30's right enough.

Not long after the kids playpark was built beside the swimming pool ,I noticed that there were a lot of broken old bottle fragments all around the boundry which were 1920's so I put 2 and 2 together etc ... Wish I'd ventured over there when they were digging it out , i'm just next door as well ! .

I know of the site near the cycle track and although it's seen a few dedicated Anoraks such as myself over the years I'm hoping to get permission for a wee look . There is apparently a Ginger Beer that was brewed in the square at Kilbirnie and one of the old bottles was found there a long time ago . Away to get me bottle collecting anorak on ......cheers and thanks .

Irvin Clifford says

hey Gordy,

Jennings gardens up the Largs road are on the site of the kilbirnie common ground and yeah it was used for dumping mainly builders rubbish from the very late 60's onwards,before that their was a piggery and other buildings down there next to jokes burn.

All the stuff you would have seen when the play park was being built may have come from when they were digging the pool foundations I remember huge piles of muck when they had marked out and started construction of the pool,my mother lives in hagthorn avenue at the top of the park and I have seen it change a lot since my earliest memories of it in the mid/late 60's,all the wooden benches and the water fountains.

anyway glad my info helped