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GLASGOW HERALD
27 JANUARY 1917

FOOD PRODUCTION

LORD EGLINTON’S OFFER

The Earl of Eglinton and Winton, Lord Lieutenant of the County of Ayr yesterday intimated that in view of the national demand he is prepared to offer land for cultivation within the Eglinton policies to suitable parties on easy terms and conditions.
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GLASGOW HERALD
27 JANUARY 1917

DEATH ON SERVICE

HUNTER: At 1/1 South Midland Casualty Clearing Station, France, Lance Corporal R HUNTER, Cameron Highlanders, aged 32 years, dearly beloved husband of Margaret Scott Workman, Golf House, West Kilbride.

(Perhaps strangely, the family intimation in the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald also lists the deceased simply as R Hunter. The War Memorial at West Kilbride gives his name as ROBERT.)
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EVENING TIMES
28 JANUARY 1967

It’s wee bit further away than usual but a momentous occasion in Scottish football!

SCOTTISH CUP – FIRST ROUND
BERWICK RANGERS 1-0 RANGERS

BERWICK RANGERS:
Wallace, Haig, Riddell, Craig, Couttes, Kilgannon, Lumsden, Reid, Christie, Dowds, Ainslie. Substitute – Rodgers.

RANGERS:
Martin, Johansen, Provan, Greig, McKinnon, D. Smith, Henderson, A. Smith, McLean, Forrest, Johnson.
Substitute – Wilson.
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A lot of big names there. JD.
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I'm guessing you mean for Glasgow Rangers JD. Not half! The match changed a few lives - Scot Symon, the Rangers Manager got the sack soon afterwards, I think - and Jock Wallace, the Berwick Rangers goalkeeper/manager, although not immediately afterwards, ultimately became the Glasgow Rangers manager, clearly having impressed the Ibrox Board of Directors with what he achieved at the wee club with extremely limited resources.
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EVENING TIMES
4 FEBRUARY 1959

STRIKE HALTS WORK AT HUNTERSTON

Important work on one of the large atomic reactors at the £39,000,000 nuclear generating station at Hunterston, Ayrshire, is being held up by a strike of 80 steel erectors and a walk out yesterday of 170 platers and welders.
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A management engineered strike I believe.
Material shortage so cause a strike and no need to pay the workers.(strikers)
It was a tactic of the time.
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GLASGOW HERALD
18 FEBRUARY 1831

AT TROON – FOR CHALEUR BAY
(NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA)

The fine fast sailing Brig CATHERINE, (of 450 tons burthen), Thom. Clark, Master. She has superior accommodation for Passengers, and will sail about 1 April.

For freight or passage, apply at Sanderson’s Wharf, Edinburgh; to the Master on board; Wm. Gillies, Irvine, or here to

Robert Sanderson,
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Glasgow, 17 Feb., 1831
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GLASGOW HERALD
1 MARCH 1833

WEST KILBRIDE MANSE, AYRSHIRE, 23 FEBRUARY, 1833 -

A woman named ANN MUNRO came lately to this parish, in a destitute condition, without a house or any means of support: she was taken ill, and died on the 12th current. The Kirk-Session furnished her with bed-clothes and other necessaries, and Mr. Spiers, surgeon here, gave her every medical assistance, and otherwise acted towards her with great kindness and generosity. She was interred at the expense of the Kirk-Session.

The account she gave of herself is the following:-

She said she came to Glasgow as a child with her grandfather and mother; they had then £500. Her mother and she kept boarders in Glasgow, when her grandfather and mother died, leaving her in very poor circumstances.

She married a labourer named McFADYEN, by whom she had some children, who are now supported by some of her relations in Broad Street, Glasgow. She visited her husband lately at the farm of Haupland, two miles from Neilston, when he promised to see her at Kilbride, but failing to perform his promise she was involved in deep distress.

Before coming to Kilbride she resided for the last three years in the Barony parish of Glasgow, but lately lived in a house taken from a mason in Cowcaddens, named PETER LINDSAY.

Such is the history of a woman who appears to have seen better times. Deserted by her husband, unsought by relations, with not a friend to shed a tear or to close her eyes, it was reserved for the Ministers and elders to perform the last solemn rite in conducting her to her grave.

Attested by William Vessie, Minister
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GLASGOW HERALD
6 MARCH 1840

CURLING AT LARGS

The climate here is ill calculated for this very interesting game, and we are supposed John Frost had left us for good altogether.

On Thursday, the 20th ult., however, we had some most excellent ice and good play; and on the 21st, a medal, given by the ladies of Largs, and ladies friendly to the Thistle Branch of the Grand Caledonian Club, was competed for on Mr. Cairnie’s artificial rink and gained by Mr. James Lang, since which there has been most excellent and superior ice every day, and some interesting matches have been decided.

The Saltcoats curlers came to try their strength, but the ice would not admit of their finishing a game.
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Penny Tray wrote:The Saltcoats curlers came to try their strength, but the ice would not admit of their finishing a game.
Can't think of where they might have honed their curling skills within Saltcoats.
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The late Sheriff David B Smith compiled a list of - "all the places at, or on, which there is a record of the taking place of a game of curling, or which is described as a curling pond on any map or plan" - and Saltcoats doesn't get a mention.

There were, of course, locations at Ardrossan and Stevenston.
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