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The Glenfield Ramblers

The Glenfield Ramblers

In 1872, workers at the Glenfield and Kennedy company in Kilmarnock, who constructed heavy machinery, benefited from a change in their working hours which meant that employees no longer had to work after 9.30am on Saturdays. An unofficial society was formed by several workers to use this free time for visits to local sites of historical and natural interest, but it was not until March 1884 that the Kilmarnock Glenfield Ramblers Society was formally founded in for "the purpose of recreation and the enjoyment of its members by country rambles, the study of natural history and for mutual improvement".

 

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