GLASGOW HERALD 25 APRIL 1892 ARDROSSAN – ERECTION OF NEW ISLAND PLATFORM The new island platform, erected at the point of the quay instead of the old one, for the convenience of passengers travelling by the Glasgow & South-Western Railway steamer, has been so far completed that the company is enable...

GLASGOW HERALD
25 APRIL 1892

DEATH

MEARNS: At Winton Street, Ardrossan, on the 24th instant, Matthew Barr, third son of the late J. H. Mearns, publisher.

GLASGOW HERALD 25 APRIL 1898 HOUSE BURNED DOWN On Saturday forenoon a one-storey thatched house in Windmill Street, Saltcoats, owned by Mr. Alexander Agnew, was burned, only the walls being left standing. The fire occurred at ten o’clock, and, with the assistance of neighbours, most of the furniture...

GLASGOW HERALD 25 APRIL 1892 SALTCOATS – ANTI-LICENSE DEMONSTRATION A meeting was held in the Christian Institute on Friday night – Mr. A. J. Ritchie presiding – at which a resolution was passed deploring the evils existing in the town caused by drinking, and expressing the opinion that this was cau...

GLASGOW HERALD 25 APRIL 1888 MUNICIPAL MEETING – SALTCOATS A special meeting of the Police Commissioners was held on Monday night – Provost McIsaac presiding – regarding the public park. Correspondence was read showing that Lord Eglinton’s commissioner had agreed to reduce the rent of the proposed p...

GLASGOW HERALD
25 APRIL 1899

BIRTH

LAW: At Kaimhill, Argyle Road, Saltcoats, on the 22nd instant, the wife of James Law; a son.

GLASGOW HERALD
25 APRIL 1892

FOOTBALL
SALTCOATS VICTORIA v. KILBARCHAN
At Saltcoats

The home team had the best of the play and won by 3 goals to 1.

GLASGOW HERALD 25 APRIL 1898 EXPLOSION OF WASTE MATERIAL AT ARDEER FACTORY Some alarm was caused in Stevenston, Saltcoats, and neighbouring towns by a loud explosion at Ardeer Factory shortly before seven o’clock on Saturday morning. It was feared that a disaster with probable loss of life had occur...

GLASGOW HERALD 25 APRIL 1893 BREACH OF THE PEACE At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court yesterday JANET DALZIEL, hand sewer, Schoolwell Street, Stevenston, pleaded guilty to having in her own house, on the 22nd instant, maliciously broken some panes of glass in the window and caused a breach of the peace. It w...

GLASGOW HERALD
25 APRIL 1892

FOOTBALL
STEVENSTON THISTLE 2ND XI v. POLLOKSHIELDS

At Stevenston, and resulted in favour of the home team by 2 goals to 0.

GLASGOW HERALD
25 APRIL 1898

FOOTBALL
STEVENSTON THISTLE v. GALSTON

The semi-final in the North Ayrshire Cup was played at Blacklands Park, Kilwinning.

Result – Galston, 2; Stevenston Thistle, 1.

Happy birthday Tom!