Towns > Kilmarnock (and Riccarton) > 1846-1847 - Kilmarnock and Riccarton Post-Office directory

V.
marnock press first gave to the world the deathless works
of our National Bard imparts to our Town an interest
infinitely transcending any which the mouldering re-
mains of feudal greatness could throw over it.
Kilmarnock is now the principal manufacturing town
in Ayrshire, and judging from the numerous Railways
which are about to intersect it ; from the New Works
which are about to be erected ; and from the increased
demand for Coal,|[of which it can at all times command
a plentiful supply, there is every probability that Kil-
marnock will still further increase in wealth and popu-
lation, and become a formidable rival to the famed "Me-
tropolis of the West."
A Post-Office Directory for Kilmarnock and Neigh-
bourhood, has long been felt to be a desideratum, and
strangers have often expressed their surprise that sach a
spirited town should not be possessed of that which is a
necessary appendage to every great commercial comuni-
ty. The Letter-Carriers in presenting this first fruit of
their labours to the public, would solicit the indulgence
of all, not only for the long time they have taken to col-
late it, but also for any little inaccuracies which may
have crept into it, on account of its being their first at-
tempt at Editorship.
Should the Public deem their work necessary, and
worthy of patronage, they will endeavour, as in every
large town in the kingdom, to publish one yearly, and
perhaps on a scale more worthy of support.
Kilmarnock, 17th Feb., 1S46.