Old Largs Photos and Postcards Quiz

Question 23 Answer

This building was opened in March 1936 in the memory of Mr David Guthrie Dunn of Knock Castle.

Mr David Guthrie Dunn was a very accomplished sailor. He was the younger son of John Dunn who was a tobacco merchant and partner in the prominent Glasgow tobacco manufacturing company F & J Smith. While on a round the world sail, during heavy seas, Guthrie Dunn fell overboard and was lost at sea.

Read all about sad story of David Guthrie as part of our historical walk from Bath Street to the Pencil article

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