GLASGOW HERALD 21 MAY 1910 KING EDWARD VII – FUNERAL Ardrossan: All business was suspended. The shops and licensed premises were closed for the whole day. At one o’clock a joint funeral service was held in the New Parish Church, and was attended by the Town Council, Parish Council, and the local com...

GLASGOW HERALD 21 MAY 1910 KING EDWARD VII – FUNERAL Saltcoats: In the morning there was a children’s service in the Landsborough Church – the Rev. Dr. McPhail, ex-moderator of the English Presbyterian Church, officiating with the local ministers. Later the Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council, re...

GLASGOW HERALD 21 MAY 1913 THE STRIKE AT NOBEL’S FACTORY The proceedings of yesterday did not offer any indication of a speedy settlement of the wages dispute between Nobel’s Explosives Company and the workers at their Ardeer Factory, Stevenston. The signs were rather to the contrary. No negotiation...

GLASGOW HERALD 21 MAY 1913 ARDEER EXPLOSION – MARCH 1913 - HOME OFFICE REPORT Major Cooper Key, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Explosives, who conducted the inquiry into the explosion in March last in Messrs Nobel’s explosives factory at Ardeer, in which seven men were killed, has issued his repor...

GLASGOW HERALD 20 MAY 1808 NOTICE - ARDROSSAN HARBOUR By order of the committee of management, the subscribers to the Ardrossan Harbour, are requested to pay another instalment of 10 per cent of the respective subscriptions, on or before the first day of June next, to James Crichton, Irvine, of whic...

GLASGOW HERALD
20 MAY 1911

DEATH - HARPER

At 11 Countess Street, Saltcoats, Matthew Harper, baker, beloved husband of Mary White.

GLASGOW HERALD 20 MAY 1913 THE DISPUTE AT NOBEL’S FACTORY The strike of workers at Nobel’s dynamite factory at Ardeer was continued yesterday, and so far there is no immediate prospect of a settlement. Both sides appear to be marking time. Arrangements have been made by the men’s executive for holdi...

GLASGOW HERALD 19 MAY 1888 ARDROSSAN INDEPENDENT CHURCH This church, which has undergone extensive repairs, is to be opened tomorrow, when Dr. Bowman, Greenock, and Rev. Robert McQueen, Glasgow, are to officiate. The painting work was done by Mr McGavin, Saltcoats. Black & Company, were the gasf...

GLASGOW HERALD 19 MAY 1954 MURDER CHARGE Owen Kane Ryan, (36), 36 Quay Street, Saltcoats, appeared in chambers before Sheriff G. W. I. Cormack Cohen at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court yesterday charged with the murder of his mother, Mrs Sarah McCall, who died in Kilmarnock Infirmary from head injuries. Rya...

GLASGOW HERALD 19 MAY 1913 STRIKE AT NOBEL’S FACTORY The works of Messrs Nobel’s Explosives Company Limited at Ardeer were brought to a complete standstill on Saturday as a result of the strike of workers which began on the previous day. The closing of the works has added about 400 men and women to ...

GLASGOW HERALD
18 MAY 1914

DEATH - McMEEKIN

At Bankside, South Beach Avenue, Ardrossan, on 16th May, 1914, Margaret McCallum, in her 82nd year, relict of Samuel McMeekin, tailor and clothier, late of Dalrymple and Ayr.

GLASGOW HERALD
18 MAY 1910

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT - RITCHIE and GILFILLAN

Mrs Ritchie and Mrs Gilfillan return thanks for the many kind expressions of sympathy received in their recent bereavement - Ontario, Cottage, Saltcoats.