Saltcoats - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
14 FEBRUARY 1917

SUDDEN DEATH

Mr. J. NAPIER MYERS, who for about 25 years was manager of the Saltcoats Gas Company (Limited) died very suddenly yesterday.

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GLASGOW HERALD
14 FEBRUARY 1917

DEATH ON SERVICE

MANSON: Died at 18th Clearing Station on 7th instant (of pneumonia). Private JOHN MANSON, Canadians, beloved son of Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Young, Saltcoats.

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GLASGOW HERALD
14 FEBRUARY 1917

SUDDEN DEATH

Mr. J. NAPIER MYERS, who for about 25 years was manager of the Saltcoats Gas Company (Limited) died very suddenly yesterday.

GLASGOW HERALD
15 FEBRUARY 1917

DEATH

MYERS: Suddenly at Westward Ho, Saltcoats, on 13th February, JOHN NAPIER MYERS, gasworks manager. Funeral from St. Andrew’s Church, Ardrossan (South Beach), Friday 16th at 3.30 p.m.

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GLASGOW HERALD
17 FEBRUARY 1956

NEWS IN BRIEF

Fire destroyed the office of the West End Garage, Saltcoats, last night.

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GLASGOW HERALD
24 FEBRUARY 1940

GIFTS FOR ALL SCOTS REGIMENTS
ANOTHER ACHIEVEMENT BY GLASGOW FUND
NEARLY 1200 PARCELS SENT BY OUR READERS

Gifts in cash and comforts have now been sent to every Scottish regiment by the City of Glasgow War Relief Fund.

Week-end contributions in cash brought the Outram Press appeal to 44,846 shillings.

Included was a donation of 10s from a Scot in the little island of Antigua, British West Indies, and another packet of 108 “bun” pennies from a Saltcoats reader.

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GLASGOW HERALD
25 FEBRUARY 1875

PROPOSED HALL

The want of a good hall for meetings &c., has been long felt in Saltcoats, and the Young Men’s Christian Association have taken the initiative to supply the want.

A meeting was held in the Town Hall on Tuesday evening in furtherance of the object.

Mr. Halkett presided, and expressed surprise that such a movement had not been set on foot before.

The meeting was also addressed by Messrs Stirrat, Smith, Fullerton, Campbell, Millar, Kennedy and Captain Young.

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EVENING TIMES
26 FEBRUARY 1963

BURNS BROADCASTER HAROLD WIGHTMAN DIES AT 62

Mr. Harold Wightman, the well-known Scottish broadcaster whose recording of “Tam o’ Shanter” was world famous died suddenly at his home at 6 Pollock Road, Bearsden, today. He was 62.

An Ayrshire man who served as a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War, Mr. Wightman had been employment superintendent at the Scotstoun works of Albion Motors Limited since 1939, when he joined the company from I.C.I., Ardeer.

Mr. Wightman was one of the earliest broadcasters in Scotland and has been on the air regularly ever since, especially in Burns programmes. Recordings of Burns poetry made by him have been secured by universities, schools, and radio networks all over the world, as examples of Scottish speech, and copies are in the Library of Congress in Washington.

As an amateur actor he gained the highest honours. He was a member of the Ardrossan and Saltcoats Players’ Club team which won the Scottish and British Championships in 1928, and then went on to New York to win the world championship, and with it the David Belasco Cup.

The one-act play with which they gained successes was J. M. Barrie’s “The Old Lady Shows Her Medals.”

WON AGAIN

Ten years later he produced the team which won the Scottish Festival and came second in Britain.

Mr. Wightman moved to Glasgow and later to Bearsden, but he retained his connection with the Players’ Club and was their honorary president.

Chairman for many years of the Partick local employment committee, Mr. Wightman was vice-chairman of the industrial panel of the Scottish Film Council and actively associated with a number of other organisations.

He is survived by his wife, son, and daughter.

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This is a wonderful example of Harold Wightman in action with Tam O Shanter:-

https://scotlandonscreen.org.uk/browse- ... -002-065-c

[down south]

Just remembered that Ardrossan Academy had a Harold Wightman Prize for Spoken English, so he was clearly remembered locally.

Susan

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GLASGOW HERALD
27 FEBRUARY 1875

SALTCOATS CHORAL UNION

On Thursday night, this union gave its first rehearsal in the North Church to a large and very respectable audience.

Mr. Halkett, banker, presided.

The programme embraced a choice selection of sacred and secular pieces by the most noted authors, and all of them were rendered in a creditable way. The chorus numbered 100 voices, and the various parts were well balanced.

Mr. C. M. Blair was conductor, and performed his duty very efficiently.

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GLASGOW HERALD
2 MARCH 1933

SCOTTISH ARCHITECTS

At the monthly meeting of the Council of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, held at 15 Rutland Square, Edinburgh – Mr. John Begg, F.R.I.B.A., F.R.I.A.S., in the chair………The following new members were elected………R. RENNIE, Saltcoats, as Associate.

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GLASGOW HERALD
5 MARCH 1878

ASSAULT

At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court yesterday, THOMAS SINCLAIR, a labourer, residing in Quay Street, Saltcoats, pleaded guilty to assaulting his sister-in-law in his own home on the 3rd inst., and having been three times previously convicted of assault, was sentenced to 60 days imprisonment.