GLASGOW HERALD 16 MAY 1913 SMACK FOUNDERS AT ARDROSSAN On Wednesday evening the smack JESSIE KERR, carrying a cargo of coal from Ardrossan to Millport, grounded on a edge of rock within the breakwater at Ardrossan Harbour, and shortly afterwards sank. It is thought it will be possible to re-float th...

GLASGOW HERALD
16 MAY 1911

DEATH - LAW

At Kenmuir, Eglinton Road, Ardrossan, on the 15th instant, Marion Renwick, wife of John Law.

GLASGOW HERALD 16 MAY 1907 NEW POLICE STATION A new police station is to be erected in Green Street, adjoining the Town Hall, at Saltcoats. The new building will have accommodation for a superintendent, inspector, sergeant, and several unmarried constables. There will be six cells, and it has been a...

GLASGOW HERALD 16 MAY 1914 ARDEER EXPLOSION – GOVERNMENT WHITE PAPER The report of Major A. Cooper-Kay, Chief Inspector of Explosives, on the explosion at Nobel’s Ardeer Factory on February 20 last was issued as a Home Office White Paper last night. By this explosion, which occurred in the incorpora...

GLASGOW HERALD 16 MAY 1913 STRIKE AT NOBEL’S FACTORY Last evening a mass meeting of the workers in Nobel’s Explosives Works at Stevenston was held in the Town Hall, Saltcoats, when Mr Gilbert Lewis, president of the Scottish Union of Dock Labourers, presided over a gathering numbering over 1000. The...

GLASGOW HERALD
16 MAY 1910

ARDEER GOLF CLUB

Heys Medal – N. M. Hyslop, (3) 76; J.L. Steven, (8) 76 (previous winner); and George McGregor. (9) 81.

Robertson Medal – George Kirkhope, (14) 79, (winner); and D. Martin, (13) 79, (previous winner).

Glenshena, I saw it advertised but couldn't bring myself to watch it. I would fall in love again with Doris Day :roll:, and be singing about the Deadwood Stage for a fortnight. I first saw it in the "Bug Hut " (The Lyric Cinema, Princes Street, Ardrossan) when admittance was either by way ...

GLASGOW HERALD
15 MAY 1913

NO PORTUGUESE CONSULATE AT ARDROSSAN

Owing to trade between Portugal and the Ayrshire ports having dwindled away during the last 15 years it has been decided not to appoint a successor to Mr William Anderson, the former Portuguese Vice-Consul at Ardrossan.

GLASGOW HERALD
15 MAY 1913

BIRTH - McINTOSH

At Lewis, Anderson Terrace, Ardrossan, on 13th May, to Mr and Mrs McIntosh; a daughter.

GLASGOW HERALD 15 MAY 1912 ARDROSSAN TOWN COUNCIL MEETING At the monthly meeting of Ardrossan Town Council – Provost Chrystie presiding – the Provost reported that the committee to which the question of taking over the South Beach Green had been remitted had been in communication with Lord Eglinton’...

GLASGOW HERALD 15 MAY 1911 ARDROSSAN AND WEST KILBRIDE FARMERS’ SOCIETY SHOW The annual show under he auspices of the Ardrossan and West Kilbride Farmers’ Society took place on Saturday at Ardrossan. A cold north-easterly wind blew across the field all day and soe showers of rain fell, yet there was...

GLASGOW HERALD
15 MAY 1912

DEATH - PATON

At Saltcoats, on 14th May, James Paton, of Gen Nevis, Rothesay (late of Greenock), aged 83 years.