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The Barrometer JULY 2014 AUTUMN 2013 EDITION the NEWSPAPER for the CONSERVATION VILLAGE of BARR, SOUTH AYRSHIRE The Barrometer JULY 2014 AUTUMN 2013 EDITION THE NEWSPAPER FOR THE CONSERVATION VILLAGE OF BARR, SOUTH AYRSHIRE. POP: 260 INSIDE YOUR ‘SUPERPARK’ BARROMETER Human sundial p7 ON THE WAY Gala Day pictures p4&5 September opening for £120,000 Didn’t they do well? p6&7 play park facility at the Clachan Pub is on the Map p6 Type to enter text Dinmurchie ballot p2 What’s coming up p7 Jimmy Farquhar The village has lost one of its most distinguished and respected figures with the death of Dr Jimmy Farquhar of Sunnyside, Glenginnet Road. Jimmy died in the Community Hospital Girvan on Wednesday 11th June after a two-year battle with cancer. He was 87. A large number of his friends and A new state-of-the-art play park costing £120,000 will open in Barr in the Autumn. neighbours from Barr attended his Dubbed the “Super Park” with no fewer that 18 different elements, it will be the best in funeral service at Masonhill the area and is sure to delight youngsters of all ages. Crematorium to hear his sons, Funding was finalised for the Barr Parish Development Company’s project last month and the John and Grant speak of their equipment is already under construction by the manufacturers ready for a September father’s integrity and humanity. installation at the playground behind the Clachan. Jimmy’s grandsons, Jamie and The money for the park has come from Carrick Futures which has provided over £84,000 and Tom read the lessons in the from Hadyard Hill Community Benefit Fund who have provided just under £41,000 for the service which was conducted by scheme. In addition, the Forestry Commission carried out vital and costly drainage work free the Rev Dr B Collie. of charge. South Ayrshire Council will maintain the park after its installation. Included in the fun-filled facilities are; a 35 metre zip slide for the older kids, two multi-play Afterwards, Sheila expressed her units with a vast number of different elements, twisters, a flying saucer, double zig zags, gratitude for the tremendous several “springers”, a land rover play mobile, flexi-swings and roundabouts, talking phones ... support she had received from the the list goes on. A layout of the park is currently on display in the Community Store. village both during his illness and Adults haven’t been forgotten, there are benches from which they can watch their kids at play. after his death. The park will be bordered by high fencing and accessed through gates. There’s no doubt that when the word gets around, Barr will be a popular destination for Jimmy’s ashes will be interred in visitors with young kids in tow. Now it will be the adults who’ll be being dragged to Barr! the family plot in Barr Kirkyard at a Community Councillor Alex Tait, who drove the project forward with input from the village’s later date. youngsters thanked all those who had made it possible; Carrick Futures, Hadyard Hill CBF, OBITUARY P2 the Forestry Commission and South Ayrshire Council, particularly David Lowdon. OBITUARY YOUR CHANCE TO Dr. James T (Jimmy) Farquhar VOTE ON FUTURE JANUARY 17, 2012 Although James Thomson Farquhar, known to all as Jimmy, did not OF DINMURCHIE arrive in Barr to settle permanently until 1992, his association with the village started as far back as 1935 when he was a boy of eight. The future of Dinmurchie Farm could be decided in the next few weeks ... It was then that his father, until then a partner in a small family firm of and everyone in the village who is Glasgow grain merchants, was forced out of business when motor entitled to vote will be asked to take transport took over from the horse-drawn variety and the demand part in a referendum to determine the for this company’s products slumped. So, at the age of 39, Jimmy’s way ahead. father decided to go into sheep farming as his new career and it was then that the family moved to the 2000 acre Changue Farm rented to This follows a proposal by the Barr them by the Forestry Commission. Parish Development Company (BPDC) to make an application to The young Jimmy’s first school was Albright and Wilson. They were to stay there for the Cambusdoon in Alloway where he was a weekly next 11 years. Son number two, Grant, arrived in acquire the land and buildings under boarder, traveling back to Changue by car on 1962 in Glasgow. Sheila had been staying with the National Forest Land Scheme. Friday evenings and returning to school on Jimmy’s mother who had moved to The Croft in Old This scheme, which is administered Monday mornings. With the outbreak of war in Dailly earlier that year on the death of his father. by the Forestry Commission gives 1939 and the subsequent rationing, there was no communities the opportunity to buy petrol to take him to and from school and so he During his time in Harrogate, where he was or lease national forest land on the appointed Research Manager, his department became a full boarder. After his father was basis that it provides benefits to the registered several manufacturing processes and called up to the army, his mother rented a small public. house in Ayr to escape the isolation of living at registered a dozen patents in which he was named Changue with no petrol, no mains electricity and as inventor. One process, for destroying dangerous The proposal by the village’s only a limited ration of coal. chemicals, was employed by the U S Pentagon. Development Company, which was set up by the Community Council, In his final year at Cambusdoon, the school It was the emergence of the environmental would provide a visitor centre and a doctor expressed concern about the condition of movement and his previous work on the company’s Jimmy’s heart - he had by then suffered two waste disposal and water pollution processes which multi-purpose space to complement bouts of rheumatic fever - and he was sent back led to his being offered a move to London as its the village hall. The provision of to Changue, where the family had returned after Environmental Manager and in 1972 the family workshop and exhibition spaces for his father’s discharge from the army, for the final moved to Radlett in Hertfordshire from where Jimmy anything from rural skills to corporate five months of his primary schooling. During this travelled to work in central London each day. There conference facilities, continuing time he showed early signs of a stubborn streak he embarked on what he described as “seventeen education to outdoor events, would, years of enormously interesting work” in which he when, bored stiff, but forbidden to ride his they say, boost the demand for local bicycle because of the state of his health, he served on various trade and Government bodies and was a member of the Minister for Industry’s accommodation and amenities. pedaled from Changue to Pinmore and back to There is also the potential for the the anger of his parents over the escapade. Technical Advisory Committee. He spoke on scientific issues relating to the protection of the provision of a small hydro-electricity Holidays and death-defying cycling expeditions environment at more than 50 conferences world scheme generating income and over, Jimmy went to Ayr Academy to begin his wide and presented evidence to Committees of sustainable local employment. secondary education and it was here where he both Houses of Parliament. He received a became interested in scientific subjects, Fellowship of the Royal Society of Chemistry and A spokesman for the Development particularly Chemistry under the inspiring was awarded a Charter (CChem). Company said, “The potential tutelage of the highly regarded teacher, Robert acquisition of Dinmurchie provides a McKell. It was not only in science and With the death of his mother in 1981, the family was golden opportunity for the village. mathematics that he began to develop but also, deprived of a Scottish centre where they could visit The Community Right to Buy scheme each year and it was then that they purchased thanks to Dr J Douglas Cairns, who took over as would enable Barr to reconstruct the Rector in his final year, a love of literature, Sunnyside, a cottage at that time in a dilapidated condition. After a great deal of renovation this derelict farm as an exciting centre for particularly the works of Robert Burns. After a wide range of events and activities. leaving Ayr Academy with four good Highers in became their second home. Ten years later upon Jimmy’s retirement they moved permanently to Barr Which would bring money into the 1945 he entered a four year degree course in village by generating income for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the where he continued consultancy work and writing village businesses.” Royal College of Science and Technology, later articles for scientific journals while also building a large extension to the house. Jimmy was also to become the University of Strathclyde, Under the rules of the scheme, a Chairman of Ayr Probus Club in its Centenary year. attaining an Honours degree. Despite receiving ballot of villagers must be held to several good job offers on completion of his Jimmy and Sheila were firm supporters of the of ascertain whether or not they are in studies, he was persuaded by one of his village way of life and strong advocates of the favour of an application to purchase lecturers to consider taking on a three year junior importance of maintaining the fabric which binds it being made.
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