Why one of Newton Park’s Last Roads to be tarred was McAdam Street
It was a youthful musing of mine to look at the last remaining gravel road – McAdam Street in Newton Park and imagine that it was named for the inventor of the macadamised road – John Loudon McAdam, (born 21 September 1756, in Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland and died 26 November 1836, in Moffat, Dumfriesshire). McAdam […]
Published at Tue, 19 Feb 2019 08:52:35 +0000
