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.

GLASGOW HERALD
15 MAY 1911

DEATH - MURISON

At Torwood, Saltcoats, on 12th instant, Jeanie Constance Baird, wife of David Murison.

GLASGOW HERALD 15 MAY 1885 KILLED BY A FALL DOWN A COAL PIT On Wednesday night about eleven o’clock, a young man named John Simmerton belonging to Langloan, Old Monkland, was found lying dead at the bottom of the shaft of No. 3 pit, Auchenharvie Colliery. He accidentally fell, it is thought, from th...

GLASGOW HERALD 14 MAY 1913 INDUCTION AT ARDROSSAN The Rev. Dugald McArthur, B.D., late assistant Barony Parish Church, Glasgow, was yesterday ordained and inducted to the pastorate of New Ardrossan Parish Church. The Rev. A. B. Thomson, Kilmarnock, preached and gave the charges. Members of Irvine Pr...

GLASGOW HERALD
14 MAY 1913

AYRSHIRE LICENSING APPEAL COURT

An appeal by A. W. Syme, Ardrossan, against the refusal of the Northern District Committee to grant him a renewal of the inn and hotel licence for the Station Hotel, Ardrossan, was dismissed.

GLASGOW HERALD 14 MAY 1914 SALTCOATS AND AUTOMATIC STREET LIGHTING At the monthly meeting of Saltcoats Town Council the Roads Committee showed that there had been under consideration a report by the gas manager regarding the adoption of a system of automatic street lighting. The burgh surveyor had b...

GLASGOW HERALD
14 MAY 1912

DEATH - SMALL

At Airton, Saltcoats, on 12 instant, Elizabeth McEwan, loving wife of John Small, late brush manufacturer, Glasgow.

GLASGOW HERALD 14 MAY 1923 ALARMING ACCIDENT A serious accident marred the pleasure of a day’s outing to Rothesay, which was taken part in on Saturday by 3000 employees of Messrs Nobel’s Explosives Company Limited, Ardeer, on the occasion of the firm’s jubilee. The company left Ardrossan on board th...