The Maritime Museum at Irvine Harbourside has opened a portal to the past, inviting guests to meet real-life characters from the 19th and early 20th century.
Tasting History Ayrshire Tours have started a history tour which rounds off with a rum tasting session.
The tour highlights the rich history based around the shipping trade industry off Scotland’s West Coast.
Travelers through time will meet Elizabeth Miller, 1792-1864, who hailed from Saltcoats and became the first registered female sea captain.
She explains how she came to be working in such a male-dominated environment.
After viewing vessels in the Maritime Museum, a trip to the tenement rooms follows, where guests run into ship worker Maggie MacIntosh. Maggie tells of her life in the tenement rooms during the 1920s.
The tour concludes with a Scottish rum tasting at the Harbour Lights Inn.
Three samples of Scottish infused rums are on offer as well as non-alcoholic west coast ginger wine.
Guests will learn of the trading links which fuse the flavours of the Caribbean with Scotland’s West Coast.
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