GLASGOW HERALD
4 SEPTEMBER 1933
FLOODLIGHTING AT SALTCOATS
The inauguration of floodlighting at the Saltpans Bathing Place, Saltcoats, on Saturday night, was witnessed by over 10,000 people.
With huge reflector lamps shining down on the waters, crowds saw diving and swimming displays and a polo match in an unusual atmosphere.
At the conclusion of the ceremony hundreds of bathers had a swim in the artificial moonlight.
The putting greens were also floodlit and the bandstand illuminated.
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GLASGOW HERALD
5 SEPTEMBER 1917
DEAN OF GUILD COURT
Saltcoats Dean of Guild Court last night issued their judgment in a petition by the Ardrossan Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company Limited for warrant to convert the villa known as CONINGSBY, Montgomerie Crescent, Saltcoats, into two separate dwelling-houses or flats by removing all internal communications between the upper and lower flats and erecting an outside stair.
The petition was opposed by the superior, Lord Eglinton, and also by John Y. Paton, a neighbouring feuer.
The Court repelled the objections by John Y. Paton. The objections by the superior, however, were upheld in respect that in the Court’s view, according to the title, plans of alteration must first be approved of by him. The petition was accordingly dismissed, with expenses to the superior.
The petitioners were at the instance of the PROSECUTOR OF Court found liable in a penalty of £40 and expenses for proceeding to alter the building without the warrant of the Court, and an order was issued requiring them to restore the building to its previous condition.
5 SEPTEMBER 1917
DEAN OF GUILD COURT
Saltcoats Dean of Guild Court last night issued their judgment in a petition by the Ardrossan Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company Limited for warrant to convert the villa known as CONINGSBY, Montgomerie Crescent, Saltcoats, into two separate dwelling-houses or flats by removing all internal communications between the upper and lower flats and erecting an outside stair.
The petition was opposed by the superior, Lord Eglinton, and also by John Y. Paton, a neighbouring feuer.
The Court repelled the objections by John Y. Paton. The objections by the superior, however, were upheld in respect that in the Court’s view, according to the title, plans of alteration must first be approved of by him. The petition was accordingly dismissed, with expenses to the superior.
The petitioners were at the instance of the PROSECUTOR OF Court found liable in a penalty of £40 and expenses for proceeding to alter the building without the warrant of the Court, and an order was issued requiring them to restore the building to its previous condition.
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Can you imagine that to-day with this rotten weather.Penny Tray wrote: ↑Mon Sep 04, 2017 8:11 am GLASGOW HERALD
4 SEPTEMBER 1933
FLOODLIGHTING AT SALTCOATS
The inauguration of floodlighting at the Saltpans Bathing Place, Saltcoats, on Saturday night, was witnessed by over 10,000 people.
With huge reflector lamps shining down on the waters, crowds saw diving and swimming displays and a polo match in an unusual atmosphere.
At the conclusion of the ceremony hundreds of bathers had a swim in the artificial moonlight.
The putting greens were also floodlit and the bandstand illuminated.
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GLASGOW HERALD
9 SEPTEMBER 1982
FROM THE SOOT TO OZONE, SUN AND THE FLICKS
Breathers were excursion trains to the coast for city toilers to promenade and take gasps of fresh air. Much of the time the breathers were sent to Saltcoats. In those days it always used to be sunny at Saltcoats.
Apart from caravanners who encamp on the outskirts, it hardly exists on the map of places to stay for a holiday. The Automobile Association in its handbook finds no room for Saltcoats. It keeps its bright lights only on the atlas of nostalgia.
Go back far enough, for a couple of centuries, and it was the most fashionable lido. Living memory makes it the place for Fair digs, forget your Rothesay.
This summer’s hot July suns repopulated the beach as it had not been since the high days. It looked as if Glasgow had rediscovered Saltcoats from a deep folk memory. Shortage of holiday cash, also remembered from the ‘thirties had something to do with it as well.
Saltcoats’s one big snobbery was whether your coast place was with attendance – meaning that the woman of the house made your dinner – or without attendance for which self-catering has become the jolly euphemism. It meant that Maw for the Fair had a change of sink.
Postcard Saltcoats was a creation of the new-fangled notion of taking holidays. Previously, it had gone its own way. It caught fish, dug coal, wove cloth, and even boiled some salt. For a change, it became the city’s seaside landlady.
Of all Britain, Saltcoats is a cinema city. Those film moguls who remain in London’s Soho look to it in grateful awe and in the hope that there resides in Ayrshire some good hope and secret cure for the woes of the industry.
Saltcoats is the only place left of its size (population 14,000) which has two picture houses – technically three because La Scala, built in 1913, has two screens.
Saltcoats adds to this remarkable double feature the brave apparent eccentricity of having its electric palaces face to face across its main street.
Compared with the La Scala, the canopied doors of the Regal opened as a much more recent attraction. Its curtains parted on the legionnaire adventure of “Beau Ideal” in 1931. Across the way that week there was a Thursday change of programme from “Outsider,” starring Joan Barry to Norma Shearer in “Strangers May Kiss.”
The price to the Regal front was three-pence, soaring to nine-pence for upstairs. “Going to the pictures was cheaper than staying at home,” says George Kemp, third of the generation of the Kemp family who own both houses. He recalls that when his grandfather in 1900 first showed flickering pictures on the fairground he was told they would soon fade.
“Cinemas have always been said to be on the edge of crisis,” is the experience of George Kemp, who is 68. His first full-time job was selling chocolate on the first night of the Regal. “I ate more than I sold,” he says.
If every reel of history has appeared to end in crisis, Saltcoats seems somehow to have retained the art of cliffhanging. What its particular Pearl White ability is, however, even Brian Kemp, George’s son and managing director of the family firm, is reluctant to hazard.
“Pictures were a way of life in Saltcoats. Although much reduced, the habit remains,” Brian Kemp is content to say.
SUPER-COLOSSAL
Saltcoats just likes pictures. It once supported a third rival house, called the Countess. At least, that was its name when films were on. Otherwise it was known as the town hall.
Even now the statistics of Saltcoats picture-going seem super-colossal and stupendous – or any other of the epic words which occurred with confident frequency in film trailers. There are seats for 1230. The arithmetic of continuing to enjoy the Regal and LA Scala suggests that all Saltcoats goes to the movies about once a fortnight, which they don’t.
To use another good old movie-house name from the days when picture halls were given real names, cinema corner has become a distant Mecca. Regular pilgrims come from out of town as far as Greenock.
Bingo has gone the way of beetle drives. It was given a brief shot 20 years ago but flopped. Films remain favourite. Saltcoats even prefers what little local history it has to move and talk and have background music. Hardly anything about what granny did next has been entombed in books. Local events went into local newsreels.
OLD CLIPS
Many quite small places used to have their own Movietone. Saltcoats remains a fan of seeing itself on screen. Old newsreel clips are sometimes still shown in the Regal, some of them shot by the great Harry Kemp himself, Brian’s grandfather, and a cinema showman who was also Saltcoats’s Ziegfield with his Scotch Broth variety troupes.
The town’s movie-making is of less than universal significance. It records the flooding of the streets of the mid-twenties and how the esplanade was built by the L.M.S. railway in 1935. The crowning of a young girl chosen to be the summer festival’s Sea Queen became an annual blockbuster.
Harry Kemp pictures used more extras than de Mille. The entire town got into them. The sensible commercial idea was that everybody would pay at the box office to see himself up there with Gene Autry or even Buster Crabbe.
A cinematic masterpiece made in 1922 gives extra delight. It shows when the Marchioness of Bute went to unveil the war memorial, the flag that draped the monument stuck. She gamely tugs the string until her hat nearly comes off. Nothing keeps happening. All wearing hats and blank expressions, the lieges wait.
From nowhere (that’s how it appears on the film) a chimney sweep’s ladder rides to the rescue. Invisible hands free the flag.
When the newsreel camera moves back to show the full height of the memorial against a sombre sky and the profile of the brave statue soldier on top, the sweep’s ladder stands parallel alongside and proudly to attention.
Saltcoats’s reluctant flag is a cinema moment that equals the famous one of Mrs. Truman, wife of the American President, biffing the nose of a Flying Fortress with a bottle champagne which won’t break.
From scenes like these Saltcoats’s cinema loyalty was seeded. Why it has continued to flourish stays a mystery even to the Kemps. Their good management must have much to do with it. They are content, however, not to poke about the secret. While their enthusiasm clearly has been infectious, they have sometimes also had the good luck which goes with good showmanship.
When “Chariots of Fire” harvested its Oscars – although it wasn’t by then gathering great audiences – wherever else it was showing that week, it was, of course, on at the Regal.
Local pictures there remain local. Audiences still get out of their seats sometimes to applaud a movie. It is an echo of the big times when their Saturday nights had their timing as devotedly pre-ordained as the ringing of church bells on Sunday mornings. Having a week-end night out started when the title came on for the wee picture.
Those were the days when you couldn’t get into the Regal gallery unless you had looked forward to it from Thursday and booked your seats right away.
9 SEPTEMBER 1982
FROM THE SOOT TO OZONE, SUN AND THE FLICKS
Breathers were excursion trains to the coast for city toilers to promenade and take gasps of fresh air. Much of the time the breathers were sent to Saltcoats. In those days it always used to be sunny at Saltcoats.
Apart from caravanners who encamp on the outskirts, it hardly exists on the map of places to stay for a holiday. The Automobile Association in its handbook finds no room for Saltcoats. It keeps its bright lights only on the atlas of nostalgia.
Go back far enough, for a couple of centuries, and it was the most fashionable lido. Living memory makes it the place for Fair digs, forget your Rothesay.
This summer’s hot July suns repopulated the beach as it had not been since the high days. It looked as if Glasgow had rediscovered Saltcoats from a deep folk memory. Shortage of holiday cash, also remembered from the ‘thirties had something to do with it as well.
Saltcoats’s one big snobbery was whether your coast place was with attendance – meaning that the woman of the house made your dinner – or without attendance for which self-catering has become the jolly euphemism. It meant that Maw for the Fair had a change of sink.
Postcard Saltcoats was a creation of the new-fangled notion of taking holidays. Previously, it had gone its own way. It caught fish, dug coal, wove cloth, and even boiled some salt. For a change, it became the city’s seaside landlady.
Of all Britain, Saltcoats is a cinema city. Those film moguls who remain in London’s Soho look to it in grateful awe and in the hope that there resides in Ayrshire some good hope and secret cure for the woes of the industry.
Saltcoats is the only place left of its size (population 14,000) which has two picture houses – technically three because La Scala, built in 1913, has two screens.
Saltcoats adds to this remarkable double feature the brave apparent eccentricity of having its electric palaces face to face across its main street.
Compared with the La Scala, the canopied doors of the Regal opened as a much more recent attraction. Its curtains parted on the legionnaire adventure of “Beau Ideal” in 1931. Across the way that week there was a Thursday change of programme from “Outsider,” starring Joan Barry to Norma Shearer in “Strangers May Kiss.”
The price to the Regal front was three-pence, soaring to nine-pence for upstairs. “Going to the pictures was cheaper than staying at home,” says George Kemp, third of the generation of the Kemp family who own both houses. He recalls that when his grandfather in 1900 first showed flickering pictures on the fairground he was told they would soon fade.
“Cinemas have always been said to be on the edge of crisis,” is the experience of George Kemp, who is 68. His first full-time job was selling chocolate on the first night of the Regal. “I ate more than I sold,” he says.
If every reel of history has appeared to end in crisis, Saltcoats seems somehow to have retained the art of cliffhanging. What its particular Pearl White ability is, however, even Brian Kemp, George’s son and managing director of the family firm, is reluctant to hazard.
“Pictures were a way of life in Saltcoats. Although much reduced, the habit remains,” Brian Kemp is content to say.
SUPER-COLOSSAL
Saltcoats just likes pictures. It once supported a third rival house, called the Countess. At least, that was its name when films were on. Otherwise it was known as the town hall.
Even now the statistics of Saltcoats picture-going seem super-colossal and stupendous – or any other of the epic words which occurred with confident frequency in film trailers. There are seats for 1230. The arithmetic of continuing to enjoy the Regal and LA Scala suggests that all Saltcoats goes to the movies about once a fortnight, which they don’t.
To use another good old movie-house name from the days when picture halls were given real names, cinema corner has become a distant Mecca. Regular pilgrims come from out of town as far as Greenock.
Bingo has gone the way of beetle drives. It was given a brief shot 20 years ago but flopped. Films remain favourite. Saltcoats even prefers what little local history it has to move and talk and have background music. Hardly anything about what granny did next has been entombed in books. Local events went into local newsreels.
OLD CLIPS
Many quite small places used to have their own Movietone. Saltcoats remains a fan of seeing itself on screen. Old newsreel clips are sometimes still shown in the Regal, some of them shot by the great Harry Kemp himself, Brian’s grandfather, and a cinema showman who was also Saltcoats’s Ziegfield with his Scotch Broth variety troupes.
The town’s movie-making is of less than universal significance. It records the flooding of the streets of the mid-twenties and how the esplanade was built by the L.M.S. railway in 1935. The crowning of a young girl chosen to be the summer festival’s Sea Queen became an annual blockbuster.
Harry Kemp pictures used more extras than de Mille. The entire town got into them. The sensible commercial idea was that everybody would pay at the box office to see himself up there with Gene Autry or even Buster Crabbe.
A cinematic masterpiece made in 1922 gives extra delight. It shows when the Marchioness of Bute went to unveil the war memorial, the flag that draped the monument stuck. She gamely tugs the string until her hat nearly comes off. Nothing keeps happening. All wearing hats and blank expressions, the lieges wait.
From nowhere (that’s how it appears on the film) a chimney sweep’s ladder rides to the rescue. Invisible hands free the flag.
When the newsreel camera moves back to show the full height of the memorial against a sombre sky and the profile of the brave statue soldier on top, the sweep’s ladder stands parallel alongside and proudly to attention.
Saltcoats’s reluctant flag is a cinema moment that equals the famous one of Mrs. Truman, wife of the American President, biffing the nose of a Flying Fortress with a bottle champagne which won’t break.
From scenes like these Saltcoats’s cinema loyalty was seeded. Why it has continued to flourish stays a mystery even to the Kemps. Their good management must have much to do with it. They are content, however, not to poke about the secret. While their enthusiasm clearly has been infectious, they have sometimes also had the good luck which goes with good showmanship.
When “Chariots of Fire” harvested its Oscars – although it wasn’t by then gathering great audiences – wherever else it was showing that week, it was, of course, on at the Regal.
Local pictures there remain local. Audiences still get out of their seats sometimes to applaud a movie. It is an echo of the big times when their Saturday nights had their timing as devotedly pre-ordained as the ringing of church bells on Sunday mornings. Having a week-end night out started when the title came on for the wee picture.
Those were the days when you couldn’t get into the Regal gallery unless you had looked forward to it from Thursday and booked your seats right away.
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CASUALTY OF WAR
9 SEPTEMBER 1917
Killed in action, Signaller JOHN MURCHIE, (20), 8th Battalion City of London Regiment – Theatre of War, France and Flanders – son of Alexander and Maggie Murchie, 5 Caledonia Road, Saltcoats.
The Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald subsequently wrote:-
“Word has been received that Signaller JOHN MURCHIE, City of London Regiment, has been killed.
He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Murchie, Caledonia Road, Saltcoats, and a nephew of Mr. Charles Murchie, J.P., Ardrossan.
He was educated at Saltcoats Public School, and after being engaged in Saltcoats Post Office, where he acted as a telegraph messenger and then as assistant postman, he was sent to Mauchline as telegraphist and sorter. While there he joined the Army.
His father at one time had an aerated water business in Ardrossan, but latterly has been at sea, and it is only a few months ago that his vessel was torpedoed, and he spent five days in an open boat before being rescued.
Signaller Murchie had many friends in Saltcoats, and deep sympathy is felt for his parents in their loss.
9 SEPTEMBER 1917
Killed in action, Signaller JOHN MURCHIE, (20), 8th Battalion City of London Regiment – Theatre of War, France and Flanders – son of Alexander and Maggie Murchie, 5 Caledonia Road, Saltcoats.
The Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald subsequently wrote:-
“Word has been received that Signaller JOHN MURCHIE, City of London Regiment, has been killed.
He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Murchie, Caledonia Road, Saltcoats, and a nephew of Mr. Charles Murchie, J.P., Ardrossan.
He was educated at Saltcoats Public School, and after being engaged in Saltcoats Post Office, where he acted as a telegraph messenger and then as assistant postman, he was sent to Mauchline as telegraphist and sorter. While there he joined the Army.
His father at one time had an aerated water business in Ardrossan, but latterly has been at sea, and it is only a few months ago that his vessel was torpedoed, and he spent five days in an open boat before being rescued.
Signaller Murchie had many friends in Saltcoats, and deep sympathy is felt for his parents in their loss.
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GLASGOW HERALD
11 SEPTEMBER 1950
PIT ACCIDENT CANTEEN HELPERS KILLED
Two members of the Salvation Army unit who had been operating a canteen at Knockshinnock Castle Colliery, New Cumnock, during the rescue work of the entombed miners were killed early yesterday in a road accident when the car in which they were travelling collided with a lorry between Irvine and Dreghorn.
They were ARTHUR MORRIS, (26), 28 Christie Gardens, Saltcoats, and his fiancée, IRIS WYLLIE, (23), 95 High Road, Saltcoats.
Captain LESLIE PHILLIPS, (33), 101 Sharphill Road, Saltcoats, commander of the local unit of the Salvation Army, who accompanied the engaged couple, was injured and detained in Kilmarnock Infirmary.
GEORGE ANGUS, (20), apprentice motor mechanic, 2 Arran Place, Saltcoats, who was also in the car, was able to go home after receiving treatment at the infirmary.
ROBERT GIBSON, 20 Adams Avenue, Saltcoats, who was also in the car, was able to go home after receiving treatment at the infirmary.
[The Knockshinnock disaster resulted in 13 fatalities – 116 of the “entombed” miners were subsequently rescued.]
11 SEPTEMBER 1950
PIT ACCIDENT CANTEEN HELPERS KILLED
Two members of the Salvation Army unit who had been operating a canteen at Knockshinnock Castle Colliery, New Cumnock, during the rescue work of the entombed miners were killed early yesterday in a road accident when the car in which they were travelling collided with a lorry between Irvine and Dreghorn.
They were ARTHUR MORRIS, (26), 28 Christie Gardens, Saltcoats, and his fiancée, IRIS WYLLIE, (23), 95 High Road, Saltcoats.
Captain LESLIE PHILLIPS, (33), 101 Sharphill Road, Saltcoats, commander of the local unit of the Salvation Army, who accompanied the engaged couple, was injured and detained in Kilmarnock Infirmary.
GEORGE ANGUS, (20), apprentice motor mechanic, 2 Arran Place, Saltcoats, who was also in the car, was able to go home after receiving treatment at the infirmary.
ROBERT GIBSON, 20 Adams Avenue, Saltcoats, who was also in the car, was able to go home after receiving treatment at the infirmary.
[The Knockshinnock disaster resulted in 13 fatalities – 116 of the “entombed” miners were subsequently rescued.]
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CASUALTY OF WAR
11 SEPTEMBER 1917
Died on hospital ship VASNA, Lieutenant RICHARD HOFMEYR, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry attached to the Royal Flying Corps, son of I. Hofmeyr, “Annickvale”, Saltcoats.
11 SEPTEMBER 1917
Died on hospital ship VASNA, Lieutenant RICHARD HOFMEYR, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry attached to the Royal Flying Corps, son of I. Hofmeyr, “Annickvale”, Saltcoats.
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GLASGOW HERALD
12 SEPTEMBER 1912
PROPOSED THEATRE FOR SALTCOATS
At the monthly meeting of Saltcoats Town Council, an application from Mr. George H. Kemp to construct a theatre in Hamilton Street, Saltcoats, was considered.
The plans had been before the Dean of Guild Court and were continued to enable the applicant to get permission from the Council to erect the building within 25 feet from the centre of the roadway and to construct a verandah in front of the theatre.
After discussion the Council resolved to insist on the building being set back 25 feet from the centre of the street, but granted permission for the verandah.
The building will have accommodation for 1000 persons, and is estimated to cost £2000.
12 SEPTEMBER 1912
PROPOSED THEATRE FOR SALTCOATS
At the monthly meeting of Saltcoats Town Council, an application from Mr. George H. Kemp to construct a theatre in Hamilton Street, Saltcoats, was considered.
The plans had been before the Dean of Guild Court and were continued to enable the applicant to get permission from the Council to erect the building within 25 feet from the centre of the roadway and to construct a verandah in front of the theatre.
After discussion the Council resolved to insist on the building being set back 25 feet from the centre of the street, but granted permission for the verandah.
The building will have accommodation for 1000 persons, and is estimated to cost £2000.
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GLASGOW HERALD
13 SEPTEMBER 1909
SWIMMING
GALA AT SALTCOATS
On Saturday afternoon, in fine weather, the last of a series of swimming galas promoted by the local club took place at the North Pans Pond, in presence of a large gathering of spectators.
RESULTS:-
75 YARDS SCHOOLBOYS’ RACE
1. J. Robertson
2. J. McFadzean
3. Archibald Longmuir
100 YARDS HANDICAP
1. Percy Greig
2. John Kerr
3. M. Hunter
50 YARDS SCHOOLBOYS’ RACE
1. W. Anderson
2. F. Graham
3. J. Christie
50 YARDS HANDICAP
1. K. S. Hunter
2. W. Brown
SCHOOLBOYS’ RACE
1. D. Campbell
2. W. Adams
3. Alf McNaughton
50 YARDS BACKSTROKE
1. J. M. Mathieson
2. P. Greig
3. D. Campbell
13 SEPTEMBER 1909
SWIMMING
GALA AT SALTCOATS
On Saturday afternoon, in fine weather, the last of a series of swimming galas promoted by the local club took place at the North Pans Pond, in presence of a large gathering of spectators.
RESULTS:-
75 YARDS SCHOOLBOYS’ RACE
1. J. Robertson
2. J. McFadzean
3. Archibald Longmuir
100 YARDS HANDICAP
1. Percy Greig
2. John Kerr
3. M. Hunter
50 YARDS SCHOOLBOYS’ RACE
1. W. Anderson
2. F. Graham
3. J. Christie
50 YARDS HANDICAP
1. K. S. Hunter
2. W. Brown
SCHOOLBOYS’ RACE
1. D. Campbell
2. W. Adams
3. Alf McNaughton
50 YARDS BACKSTROKE
1. J. M. Mathieson
2. P. Greig
3. D. Campbell
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GLASGOW HERALD
14 SEPTEMBER 1891
FOOTBALL
SALTCOATS v NEWMILNS
Played at Saltcoats, and resulted in favour of Newmilns by 2 goals to 1 goal.
14 SEPTEMBER 1891
FOOTBALL
SALTCOATS v NEWMILNS
Played at Saltcoats, and resulted in favour of Newmilns by 2 goals to 1 goal.
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GLASGOW HERALD
15 SEPTEMBER 1921
FORESHORE RECLAMATION AT SALTCOATS
Saltcoats Town Council has agreed to forward particulars of a scheme for the reclamation of the foreshore at Winton Circus to the Unemployed Grants Committee in order to provide work for the unemployed.
The plan provides for a concrete wall from a point near the Bathing House to the ridge of rocks on the south, enclosing about 3¾ acres, and a wall along that ridge to a point near Windmill Street.
If a grant is obtained the work will be proceeded with.
15 SEPTEMBER 1921
FORESHORE RECLAMATION AT SALTCOATS
Saltcoats Town Council has agreed to forward particulars of a scheme for the reclamation of the foreshore at Winton Circus to the Unemployed Grants Committee in order to provide work for the unemployed.
The plan provides for a concrete wall from a point near the Bathing House to the ridge of rocks on the south, enclosing about 3¾ acres, and a wall along that ridge to a point near Windmill Street.
If a grant is obtained the work will be proceeded with.
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GLASGOW HERALD
16 SEPTEMBER 1908
ASSESSMENTS
At the monthly meeting of Saltcoats Town Council assessments amounting to 1s 5¾d on owners and 2s 5¾d on occupiers – a total of 3s 11½d per £1 – were imposed for the current year.
Last year the total was 3s 10d.
16 SEPTEMBER 1908
ASSESSMENTS
At the monthly meeting of Saltcoats Town Council assessments amounting to 1s 5¾d on owners and 2s 5¾d on occupiers – a total of 3s 11½d per £1 – were imposed for the current year.
Last year the total was 3s 10d.
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