GLASGOW HERALD
8 APRIL 1912

ARDROSSAN AND SALTCOATS GOLF CLUB – MONTHLY COMPETITION

Stewart Medal – Hugh Wylie, (8) 84; George McGregor, (7) 84; William Ness, (8) 84; R. H. Watt, (14) 85.

GLASGOW HERALD
8 APRIL 1853

DEATH - ANDERSON

At Raise Street, Saltcoats, on the 2nd instant, Mr Robert Anderson, tanner.

GLASGOW HERALD 8 APRIL 1848 SOUP KITCHEN AT SALTCOATS Owing to the very bad condition of the hand-loom weaving and sewed muslin trades, which are the support of a very numerous class of the inhabitants here, as well as the poverty of many aged and others, a soup kitchen was established by influentia...

GLASGOW HERALD 8 APRIL 1842 SINGULAR FACT We have this morning been favoured with sight of a small piece of timber, taken from near the centre of the trunk of a tree, measuring two feet in diameter, lately cut down on the estate of R. Cunningham, Esquire, Seabank, Saltcoats, containing two nails fir...

GLASGOW HERALD
8 APRIL 1911

THE MINERS

It is expected that the men will resume work in all the pits of Auchenharvie Colliery, Stevenston, today.

GLASGOW HERALD 7 APRIL 1870 AYR CIRCUIT COURT The business of this Court was finished yesterday before the Lord Justice-Clerk and Lord Cowan. James Saultingston Saunders, who was found guilty on the previous evening of assault by discharging loaded firearms at Ardrossan, was brought up and sentenced...

GLASGOW HERALD 7 APRIL 1983 MURDER OF CAPTAIN JOHN McCALLUM A teacher seeking clues to the “ murder ” of her sea captain great-grandfather more than a century ago, yesterday visited the scene of the alleged crime, Custom House Quay, Greenock. Mrs Evans, who lives in Weston Place, Prestwick, began he...

GLASGOW HERALD 7 APRIL 1870 SACRILEGE – SALTCOATS A miner from Stevenston, named Samuel McKnight, who described himself as a Protestant, exhibited his antipathy to Roman Catholicism in a rather novel fashion on the morning of Sunday last. He entered the vestibule of the Roman Catholic Chapel, just b...

GLASGOW HERALD
7 APRIL 1896

STEVENSTON – APPOINTMENT OF CEMETERY KEEPER

Last night the Parish Council appointed Mr James Davidson to be cemetery keeper, in room of Mr John Alexander, resigned.

GLASGOW HERALD 6 APRIL 1911 A SERIES OF ASSAULTS At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court – before Mr John Carnie, Hon. Sheriff Substitute – John Breckenridge, labourer, Ardrossan, was charged with having, on 4th instant, (1) within the Assembly Hall, Ardrossan, assaulted James Finlayson, an actor, by biting him...

GLASGOW HERALD
6 APRIL 1910

BIRTH - COPLAND

At the Rectory, Ardrossan, on 5th April, the wife of the Rev. A. Copland, M.A., a son.

GLASGOW HERALD 6 APRIL 1849 SHIPPING NEWS Ardrossan: The COUNTESS OF EGLINTON, Grange, of this port, from Glasgow for Singapore and Penang, was, in a dense fog, on Thursday the 22nd ultimo, driven ashore on Sanda island. She was got off, and since towed in here, in a damaged state, by the CONQUEROR,...