Reminiscences of Old Saltcoats Sixty Years Ago [1840s]. By Captain John Smith. From the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald 20th November 1903 Ninth Article Many I find, as old as myself, are moving about Saltcoats, and know as much as I do, but fail to give it out. Each of us walk in our own sphere, and ...

Reminiscences of Old Saltcoats Sixty Years Ago [1840s]. By Captain John Smith. From the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald 13th November 1903 Eighth Article I just follow my pen as my readers will see; I ramble for a topic, and one comes up. Captain Kelso, who lived at the foot of Hamilton Street on the ...

Reminiscences of Old Saltcoats Sixty Years Ago [1840s]. By Captain John Smith. From the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald 6th November 1903 Seventh Article I am sometimes asked, do you mind of a coal pit here or there? No; but I mind of the mouth of a pit and a beam across it in James Smillie’s park in ...

Reminiscences of Old Saltcoats Sixty Years Ago [1840s]. By Captain John Smith. From the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald 30th October 1903 Sixth Article These were the days of Burke and Hare; medical science was in its infancy, and the Faculty required dead bodies to work on. Saltcoats grave-yard was a...

Max, the story of the Crofthead, now Manse Street, is told in Saltcoats Old & New, chapter 11.

http://www.threetowners.com/old-new/chapter-11/

Reminiscences of Old Saltcoats Sixty Years Ago [1840s]. By Captain John Smith. From the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald 23rd October 1903 Fifth Article In my last article I wrote of Saltcoats men in Raise Street. I will now turn my attention to Hamilton Street and bring in my father, Alexander Smith, ...

Reminiscences of Old Saltcoats Sixty Years Ago [1840s]. By Captain John Smith. From the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald 16th October 1903 Fourth Article James Smith was more than a temperance man; he was a Christian man, and held kitchen meetings, both in Saltcoats and Stevenston while he wrought at h...

Reminiscences of Old Saltcoats Sixty Years Ago [1840s]. By Captain John Smith. From the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald 09th October 1903 Third Article There were four churches in Saltcoats sixty years ago — the Parish, the Burgher, the Anti-Burgher, and the Relief. Ministers did not require holidays ...

Reminiscences of Old Saltcoats Sixty Years Ago [1840s]. By Captain John Smith From the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald 02nd October 1903 Second Article I have not said much about the sailor men of Saltcoats of long ago. They were a brave, and hearty, and happy lot. “The Shop Ends,” which in other town...

They started here last Sunday. The first people to get the vaccination are those over 80, those who live in a care home or similar institution regardless of age, doctors, nurses, carers &c. After that high risk patients with chronic diseases.

Captain John Smith published his memories of Saltcoats in 12 "articles" in the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald in 1903. I thought they were quite interesting: Reminiscences of Old Saltcoats Sixty Years Ago [1840s]. By Captain John Smith. From the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald 25th September 1903 Since t...

Is this the post you mean, Stivis?
https://threetowners.net/forum/viewtopi ... y+1#p10257