Penny, thanks very much for this information. I was only a child when I heard of this and I may well have misheard it. The connection with joiners is interesting as there are joiners in my late dad's family and that might have been why he went to Saltcoats from Wishaw and met my mum. I now wonder if...

Does anyone have any knowledge of Miss Mansell's Haberdashery, which I think was in Saltcoats. My late mother worked there in the 1930s. Thanks. Marjorie

My late mum, Marjorie HAY, said she was brought up by her grand parents above a pub at 14 caledonia road. This looks like what is now Jack's Corner. Does anyone have any history of this establishment?