Rivergate Shopping Centre, Irvine

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DuncanM
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Rivergate Shopping Centre, Irvine

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Now gone 'digital'. The stopwatch is still 453.0875.
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Re: Rivergate Shopping Centre, Irvine

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Is that place still going?!! Last time I was there was 1986! Bet the water wheels still don't work!
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Re: Rivergate Shopping Centre, Irvine

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They definitely don't, they were removed over 20 years ago.
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Re: Rivergate Shopping Centre, Irvine

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I walked through earlier and got a buzzy noise on close call on the first one.

TX: 453.3375 MHz
RX: 459.8375 MHz
Bandwidth: 12.5 kHz
Colour Code: 1

TX: 461.325 MHz
RX: 461.325 MHz
Bandwidth: 12.5 kHz
Colour Code: 3

TX: 453.4 MHz
RX: 453.4 MHz
Bandwidth: 12.5 kHz
Colour Code: 2
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Re: Rivergate Shopping Centre, Irvine

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They must've done the place up big time! I can only remember the wheels working once. The only time I enjoyed going to Irvine was to the Magnum.(I hated getting dragged to the shops,even if it was locally up the High street in Kilwinning!!--way before it was "Ruined")
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Re: Rivergate Shopping Centre, Irvine

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The last major refurb was in 1991, new décor, new floor and Asda was built.
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Re: Rivergate Shopping Centre, Irvine

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Thanks for the info Duncan, I think when it was the way I remembered it,they put a blue dye in the water one time,and I also believe they had dyed the water red at one other point,still didn't make the wheels rotate! They were outside Granada and DER tv rental shops and Gordon Drummond the chemist If I remember correctly? When you came in on that weird slabform concourse from the main street,there were shops to your right and then the main centre with cantors furniture on the left as you enter,then right ahead just up a wee slope were the water wheels. Oh well,memory lane eh!
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Re: Rivergate Shopping Centre, Irvine

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The wheels were on the ramp at the Fullarton Square end between Boots and Arnotts, they were eventually chained because so called humans turned into two legged hamsters to try and make the wheels turn that way. I don't remember Drummond's. Boots is the only original shop left fro, when the Rivergate opened nearly 40 years ago.
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