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The statue of William Wallace is situated on the first floor of a 3 story house built in 1810 for Henry Cowan, Esq, who is reported to have put up this statue by William Reid at his own expense.

The house is situated at the bottom of Newmarket street in Ayr, also looking onto the High Street. The bottom floor was converted to a shop with a number of businesses useing it over the years.

This spot is close to where the Laigh Tolbooth was situated that served as an english prison in the days of Wallace. Wallace was held in the Tolbooth for a short time.

Can anyone confirm that the memorial high on the hill in this photo overlooking the village of Straiton is the one in memory of Lieutenant-Colonel James Hunter-Blair of Blairquhan Castle, killed at Inkerman /Crimean War in 1854.

I have heard of a monument in honour of William Wallace on top of a hill outside Kilmarnock where there are views of Ayr.

The website www.electricscotland.com/history/kilmarnock/part2c3 gives information on the monument.

After lingering while to view the expanse of country I returned to the road and continued the ascent of Barnweill Hill, and ultimately, after considerable exertion, reached the summit whereon stands the Wallace monument, and on which, tradition states,

the Scottish hero paused in his flight to view the lurid flames that consumed the Barns of Ayr, which he had fired in revenge for the murder of his uncle and other noblemen. He must have watched the scene with intense interest, for, as the flames shot heavenward, he exclaimed, "The Barns o’ Ayr burn weel!" -a pithy saying from which it is said the place takes its name. The image above is from the website www.geocities.com/wheehamx/rrBarnweill.