Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
10 NOVEMBER 1888

BIRTH

HARKNESS: At Bellvue, Ardrossan, on the 9th instant, the wife of Andrew Harkness; a daughter.

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GLASGOW HERALD
10 NOVEMBER 1880

ARDROSSAN – POLICE COMMISSIONERS

The monthly meeting of this Board was held on Monday evening – Bailie Hogarth presiding.

From the minutes of the previous meeting it appeared that Provost Barr had been re-elected Chief Magistrate and Mr. Gilfillan, Bailie.

The Works Committee gave in a report as to the several improvements made in the neighbourhood of the Castle Hill, and a letter was read from Mr. Vernon, Lord Eglinton’s Commissioner, intimating his willingness to keep the walks, &c., in order, on condition that the attention of the police be directed more to the prevention of trespass and malicious mischief than had hitherto been the case.

Commissioner Dunwoodie gave notice that at the next meeting he would bring forward a motion that the Board put an illuminated clock on the Town Buildings.

The Board then sat as the Local Authority, when the Sanitary Inspector reported the town was in a good state.

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CASUALTY OF WAR
10 NOVEMBER 1918

Died in service, Telegraphist JOHN WILLIAM MUNN, (21), R.N.V.R., HMS ASCOT - (the last British ship sunk in WW1) (torpedoed by U-Boat-67) – son of James and Elizabeth Spiers Munn, 80 Glasgow Street, Ardrossan.

[George Ardrossan]

10 NOVEMBER

TRINIDAD PROFESSORSHIP OF ENTOMOLOGY – APPOINTMENT OF DR A MARTIN ADAMSON
The authorities of the Imperial Agricultural College of Trinidad have determined to raise the entomology lectureship to the status of a professorial Chair and they have appointed as Professor Dr A Martin Adamson, the results of whose entomological researches have received publication. Professor Adamson was educated at Ardrossan Academy and Saint Andrews University and later studied at Vienna. He was assistant in biology to Professor Sir D’Arcy W Thompson at Saint Andrews. Some years ago, he was offered an appointment as biologist to accompany the ship The Discovery but he preferred an American appointment to pursue entomological research in the Marquesas Islands.
The Scotsman, 10 November 1938

George

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GLASGOW HERALD
11 NOVEMBER 1929

SCHOOLS RUGBY

Ardrossan Academy, 5; Glasgow High School 3rd XV, 19.
Albert Road Academy, 16; Ardrossan Academy, 2nd XV, 3.
Glasgow High School 7th XV, 3; Ardrossan Academy 3rd XV, 11.

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VESSEL MINED
11 NOVEMBER 1940

THE SKARV

The coaster SKARV, built by Ardrossan Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Company Limited for the Glasgow Steam Coasters Company Limited and launched on 18 March 1911, struck a mine and sank in the Bristol Channel.

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10 NOVEMBER

TRINIDAD PROFESSORSHIP OF ENTOMOLOGY – APPOINTMENT OF DR A MARTIN ADAMSON
The authorities of the Imperial Agricultural College of Trinidad have determined to raise the entomology lectureship to the status of a professorial Chair and they have appointed as Professor Dr A Martin Adamson, the results of whose entomological researches have received publication. Professor Adamson was educated at Ardrossan Academy and Saint Andrews University and later studied at Vienna. He was assistant in biology to Professor Sir D’Arcy W Thompson at Saint Andrews. Some years ago, he was offered an appointment as biologist to accompany the ship The Discovery but he preferred an American appointment to pursue entomological research in the Marquesas Islands.
The Scotsman, 10 November 1938

George

This article refers to Alistair Martin Adamson, son of the Rev. Robert M. and Mrs. Adamson, St. John's Manse, Ardrossan, whose other two sons were lost during World War I conflicts. Alistair was born in 1901 and died in 1945.

[George Ardrossan]

11 NOVEMBER

ICI FACTORY EXPLOSION – TWO MEN KILLED IN SOUTH-WEST SCOTLAND
An explosion occurred at a factory in South-Western Scotland on Thursday night (9 November 1939), as a result of which, two men lost their lives. The following statement has been issued by the management. ‘Imperial Chemical Industries Limited regret to announce that, as a result of a small explosion in one of their factories at about 9pm on 9 November, one worker lost his life and another received injuries from which he has since died. There was no material damage to plant or property. The names of the workers who lost their lives are Walter Maxwell, aged 43, of Winton Street, Ardrossan, married and Arthur Findlay, aged 22 of Burnbank Street, Stevenston, single’.
The Scotsman, 11 November 1939

George

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ARDROSSAN & SALTCOATS HERALD
12 NOVEMBER 1897

DEATH

McKELVIE: Drowned in the River Clyde at Oatlands Ferry, JOHN McKELVIE, (19), son of John and Jeanie Marr McKelvie, Ardrossan.

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VESSEL STRANDED
13 NOVEMBER 1870

THE MOLLY BAWN

The sailing brig MOLLY BAWN, built by Barr & Shearer, Ardrossan, for James Crum and Allan Graham, and launched on the 1st of January 1861, stranded while on a voyage between Trieste, Italy, and Agrigento, Sicily.

[George Ardrossan]

13 NOVEMBER

ACTIVITY ON THE CLYDE
There have been great Government extensions at the world-famous firm of William Beardmore at Parkhead, Glasgow, where they are making armour and guns and have considerably extended their facilities for forging. Then, again, there have been other great Government extensions at that no less famous firm of Harland and Wolff and there they are making gun-mountings, one of the most intricate and yet one of the most important of our requirements in armaments. At Alexandria, the Government has acquired a disused motor work and converted it into a place for assembling torpedoes. At Ardrossan, there is a great factory for the manufacture of petrol tins which has been designed and is to be erected and in that area which lies a little to the south-west of Glasgow, there is: a whole group of new munition and explosive factories. At Bishopton, at Ardeer and at Irvine, there will soon be very great activity as these places get to work.
The Scotsman, 13 November 1937

George

[Hughie]

Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald
14 November 1868

BIRTHS.
At Glasgow-street, Ardrossan, on the 10th instant, the wife of Mr John Glen, pressman, Herald Office, of a daughter.
At 21 Glasgow Lane, Ardrossan, on the Sth inst., the wife of Mr Thomas Skeoch, of a son.
At Barr-street, Ardrossan, on the 13th instant, the wife of Captain Alexander Smith, of a daughter.
At the Free Church Manse, Ardrossan, on the 7th instant, Mrs Stewart, of a son.