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GLASGOW HERALD
11 JANUARY 1856

MARRIAGE

At Saracen’s Head Inn, Saltcoats, on the 8th instant, by the Rev. James Giffen, HUGH HUNTER, Esquire, Barassie, Troon, to JANE, daughter of ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, Esquire.
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GLASGOW HERALD
13 JANUARY 1915

NEW YEAR LIST OF HONOURS

At a meeting of Saltcoats Town Council – Provost Miller presiding – Mr Hugh Wylie Auld called attention to the appearance of Lieutenant D. R. Kinnier’s name in the New Year List of honours.

Lieutenant Kinnier was a Saltcoats man, a son of the late Doctor R. S. Kinnier, and he moved that a letter of congratulation from the Council be sent to him. The motion was unanimously carried.

It will be remembered that Lieutenant Kinnier, R.N.R., who is a captain in the mercantile marine distinguished himself by evading capture by a German cruiser when he was conveying home about 300 French reservists.
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GLASGOW HERALD
14 JANUARY 1895

SALTCOATS – COTTAGE BURNED DOWN

On Saturday afternoon a detached dwelling-house on the north side of Ardrossan Road, near the Glasgow and South-Western Railway was discovered to be on fire. The tenant, Mrs Alexander, had gone out of town in the afternoon, and about four o’clock smoke was seen coming from the east gable of the house where fire spread with great rapidity, being fanned by a brisk east wind, and soon the roof was ablaze.

An entrance was effected to the lower apartments, and some of the furniture removed. The greater part, however, burned.

The fire unfortunately reached the ground floor, and the building was gutted.
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GLASGOW HERALD
15 JANUARY 1890

MUNICIPAL MEETING – SALTCOATS

Provost McIsaac presiding.

The sub-committee reported that they had met with the committee of the Young Men’s Christian Association regarding the proposed new town hall.

It was proposed that the Commissioners should acquire the whole of the ground belonging to the new town hall trustees, fronting Countess Street and Green Street, the Young Men’s Christian Association giving up claim to any portion of it on receiving £100; that the two houses fronting Green Street, and purchased by the Association for £60 should be acquired by the Commissioners for that price.

The meeting unanimously entertained the proposal.
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GLASGOW HERALD
16 JANUARY 1939

SUNDIAL AT MINERS’ HOME

On the open space in front of the Miners’ Home at Saltcoats there has been set up a sundial, presented by the miners within the No. 5 Area Committee of the Lanarkshire Miners’ Union (Blantyre and Cambuslang) which includes Priory, Blantyre, Bardykes, Gateside, and Newton Collieries.
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Penny Tray wrote: Sun Nov 12, 2017 10:28 am GLASGOW HERALD
12 NOVEMBER 1938

COURT OF SESSION
ACCIDENT TO SALTCOATS C.A.

A motion by the defenders for a new trial in the action in which JAMES McBURNIE, C.A., 4 Sorbie Road, Saltcoats, sued the Central S.M.T. Company Limited, 20 Waterloo Street, Glasgow, for £500 as damages in respect of personal injuries was disposed of by the First Division yesterday.

While proceeding along Dumbarton Boulevard on October 6, 1937, in his motor car the pursuer was run into by a motor omnibus belong to the defenders at the junction of Kilbowie Road.

The action was tried before Lord Stevenson and a jury in June last when the foreman intimated that they found unanimously for the pursuer and assessed the damages at £250. They added a rider to the effect that the pursuer should have exercised more caution, as he admitted seeing the yellow light and seeing the bus approaching.

His Lordship asked the jury whether they found that the accident was entirely due to the fault of the defenders, and the foreman replied in the affirmative. Counsel for the pursuer asked that a verdict for the pursuer be recorded, and this motion was opposed by counsel for the defender. His Lordship stated that he would record the verdict as given with the rider and also with the question he had put and the answer given. At a later date, after hearing counsel, his Lordship entered a verdict for the pursuer.

The Division refused the defender’s motion for a new trial.

The Lord President said that there was no evidence to justify a finding against the pursuer that he had acted in a way inconsistent with the standard of ordinary prudence and care which the law required. The answer given to the question put by the presiding judge showed with sufficient clearness that the jury did not intend by their rider to attribute to the pursuer any fault or negligence contributing to the accident.
GLASGOW HERALD
17 JANUARY 1940

COURT OF SESSION - FIRST DIVISION - (BEFORE THE LORD PRESIDENT AND LORDS FLEMING, MONCRIEFF, and CARMONT)
GLASGOW SCHOOL TEACHER’S ACCIDENT

Judgment was given by the First Division in an appeal from the Sheriff Court at Kilmarnock in an action brought my Miss ANNIE MARY RYAN, school teacher, 8 Wilton Court, Glasgow, against JAMES McBURNIE, 4 Sorbie Road, Saltcoats, for payment of £150 as damages for personal injuries.

On October 6, 1937, the pursuer was a passenger in a bus belonging to the Central S.M.T. Company, and driven by one of their servants, which was in a collision with a car driven by the defender at the cross roads at the junction of Dumbarton Boulevard and Kilbowie Road.

The pursuer averred that the collision was caused through the fault and negligence of the defender in disobeying the traffic signals.

This was denied by the defender, who averred that the collision was entirely due to the fault and negligence of the bus driver for a similar reason.

Sheriff Substitute A. Martin Laing, in the Sheriff Court, sustained a plea by the defender to the effect that, in virtue of the pursuer having assigned to the Central S.M.T. Company Limited, the whole claims competent to her against whom the same might be exigible for the injuries she sustained, she had no title to sue.

ISSUE ALREADY SETTLED

He also sustained a plea by the defender that the pursuer had now no claim against him as the issue in this case had already been settled as a result of an action raised by him against the Central S.M.T. in 1938.

The Division yesterday sustained the appeal and recalled the interlocutor of the Sheriff Substitute.

Their Lordships repelled the defender’s pleas above stated and allowed a proof.

The Lord President said that in the debate before the Division, counsel for the defender gave up the plea of no title to sue.

Dealing with the other plea, his Lordship said, that the action between Mr McBurnie and the Central S.M.T. Company no doubt decided any questions as between them of the fault in respect of the injuries caused to Mr McBurnie, but the injury suffered by Miss Ryan had nothing to do with the question which was then litigated, and that matter still remained for litigation.
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GLASGOW HERALD
17 JANUARY 1894

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Sir,

SALTCOATS STREETS

Interested as I am in property in Saltcoats, I am at a loss to understand the administration of the street broach of the affair our local Parliament.

The streets which they wish us, as owners to macadamise are, in my humble view, streets under their management, and fall to be macadamised (i.e. laid with road-metal and rolled) at the expense of the individual owner. The streets have long been used by all and sundry for carriages, carts, and other traffic.

In making inquiries at other places, I find County Councils are taking over side-streets – as they call them – and are metalling them.

If our Commissioners are to insist in the present course of action, Saltcoats streets would have been better under the management of the County Council.

In conversation with a road surveyor of undoubted ability in such matters, he informs me that by far the simplest plan is for our local Parliament to metal a number of the streets; that this can be done for about £1500; and to borrow this sum for 40 or 50 years means about 1d per £1 on the road rate.

I hope my brother owners will see to this without delay, and in the event of our Commissioners declining to revoke their present course of action, we should all combine in an appeal to the Sheriff. On an inquiry, I find the time for so appealing expires on the 24th instant.

I am &c.
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GLASGOW HERALD
18 JANUARY 1929

HARD LABOUR FOR BURGLAR
SALTCOATS MAN SENTENCED IN GLASGOW

Seven charges of breaking into houses at Saltcoats were admitted yesterday at Glasgow Sheriff Court by a young married man named HUGH McCULLOCH, who was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment with hard labour.

The Fiscal stated that the charges covered the period from October 23 last to January 1 this year, and that accused had resided for the past five months in Glasgow. Previous to that he was employed by a coal merchant in Saltcoats, and while going about his duties he familiarised himself with a number of houses in a district of the town. It was these houses which he broke into later, committing the offences when the tenants were temporarily absent.

In most of the cases he apparently used a false key, and the burglaries were not discovered until the articles stolen were missed.

On December 30 a young woman residing in one the houses and a male friend who was accompanying her home saw a light in a bedroom and some person moving about inside. They entered the house and met the accused coming down the stairs. The friend of the young woman knocked him down, and the accused handed over the articles he had stolen.

They took pity on him and allowed him to leave, but within two days he broke into another house.

The value of the stolen property was £150, exclusive of two deposit receipts for £120, which were not negotiable, and had been recovered. In possession of McCulloch when he was arrested was about £20 in cash and some odd articles. The stolen articles included gold watches, rings, sleeve-links, and a cigarette case.
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GLASGOW HERALD
18 JANUARY 1918

DEATH ON SERVICE

CAMPBELL: Died of dysentery, on 7th January, 1918, at General Hospital Dar-es-Salaam, East Africa, GILBERT GORDON CAMPBELL, aged 29 years, beloved husband of Jean Douglas Tennant, and youngest son of Boyd Campbell, 11 Eglinton Place, Saltcoats.
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18 JANUARY

SALTCOATS MINISTER FATALLY INJURED IN ROAD ACCIDENT
The Reverend James Adams, senior minister of Trinity Church, Saltcoats, died in Kilmarnock Infirmary after being knocked down by a motor van in Barrie Terrace, Ardrossan on Tuesday night (16 January 1945). Mr Adams went to Trinity Church from Saint Andrew’s Square Church, Greenock, in 1902 and retired with the status of senior minister in 1933. Three years ago, he celebrated his jubilee as a minister. He was formerly a member of Ayrshire Education Authority and was also for some years a member of Saltcoats Town Council and a magistrate of the burgh. He is survived by his wife, four sons and one daughter.
The Scotsman, 18 January 1945

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GLASGOW HERALD
19 JANUARY 1938

AMALGAMATING THE THREE TOWNS

A motion by Police Judge Reid that Saltcoats Town Council invite representatives from Stevenston and also from Ardrossan Town Council to meet in joint conference to discuss the question of amalgamating the three towns was, on the suggestion of Provost Gaul, remitted to the committee dealing with the burgh boundaries.

Provost Gaul said that there were several matters which were not quite ready for public discussion.
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