Frank Beattie – Guest Author of URsTV

Frank Beattie is known to many Kilmarnock Standard readers as a local historian and he has also written several books on local history matters.

Frank Beattie

Less well known are Frank’s poems and stories written with children in mind. Some of his stories have been written with ideas from his own family of three, now aged between 12 and 18.

Frank at Kilmarnock Cross

Frank is a Kilmarnock man through and through, having been born in the town in 1952 and having attended Bentinck School, James Hamilton High School and Kilmarnock Academy. He started work with the Kilmarnock Standard in 1972.

Frank has given URsTV permission to showcase some of his literary works on the site from time to time and we are delighted to publish “Pirates” and “Frankie Frog’s Friday Funeral”.