Treasured Places
Event ID 567416
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Treasured Places
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/567416
In 1936 The Moorings café and restaurant opened on the seafront at Largs. It incorporated its own ice-cream factory and bakery, and housed a ballroom with a capacity of 1000 people. The building had a distinctive nautical design, in keeping with its location: porthole windows, a third-floor 'sundeck' and a cut-away corner echoing the prow of a ship.
Permission was granted for the demolition of the building in 1989 after flooding had damaged its steel frame.
Information from RCAHMS (SC) 27 July 2007
Cameron, N 1989
McKean, C 1987