served as first Provost of Ardrossan for 37 consecutive years; a substantial number of committee meetings, planning workshops and whist drives in anyone's book.
Naturally, being the provost he gets the biggest obelisk in the middle; his wife gets the smaller left hand one with a vase on the top, and his son gets the one on the right - which would probably have had some Meccano on top - if it had been invented.
In honour of his administrative achievement, and the fact he had a penis, he got a much bigger, wider street named after him nearer the station and handier for the shops ...