I have attached some photos. On one you can see Dennyholm street houses ( they look like chalets). “The Dennyholm” (street) ran parallel to Newton Street but was on a level at the back and beneath the street. (next to number 836 on the map). The street itself ran all the way into the mill complex.
The others show: the entrance to the mill complex and the demolished site before they built the new housing estate.
The North Ayrshire Directories of that time describes them as “a long row of houses prone to flooding.” The census of 1921 shows them as having only 2 rooms each.
Here is my colourised version:
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