Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
14 AUGUST 1873

4TH AYRSHIRE (ARDROSSAN) ARTILLERY VOLUNTEERS – SHAM FIGHT

The members of this corps, to the number of about 60, engaged in a sham battle on Monday evening.

The officers present were Captain Emslie, Lieutenant Wilkie, and Lieutenant Guthrie.

The Company having formed into marching order, proceeded, headed by the Dalry instrumental band, through the principal streets, after which, a division was told off to dislodge an enemy which had taken up a position on the Castle Hill.

Captain Emslie and Lieutenant Guthrie commanded the attacking party, while Lieutenant Wilkie commanded the defending party on the hill.

The firing was maintained for fully three-quarters of an hour. The attacking party managed to ascend the hill, surrounding the enemy, and driving them into the castle, which was taken by storm.

The Company was then marched to the top of the hill, where under the command of Captain Emslie, they were put through volley and independent firing.

The movements were witnessed by a large number of spectators.
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Penny Tray wrote: Tue Aug 07, 2018 7:35 am HANSARD
7 AUGUST 1888

NAVAL MANOEUVRES

LORD GEORGE HAMILTON – The Right. Hon. Gentleman has put to me a number of hypothetical questions which I obviously cannot answer. Whether or littoral towns, which are not defended by fortifications would be free from attack in a time of hostilities is a question which the enemy alone can answer. One object in firing guns when a cruiser approaches a town is to denote the time at which it arrives opposite the town; for one of the Rules laid down is that, unless a cruiser happens to be opposite a town at a certain time, it is not to be understood to have taken it. The guns are fired to denote the exact time at which a vessel arrives. I believe that most valuable lessons will be taught to the Naval Service, as well as to the Civil population. I am glad to find that the view which the right hon. gentleman takes is not shared by the Scotch populations; for I find it reported that at a neighbouring town of Ardrossan ‘The manoeuvres were witnessed by a large number of the people of the town, who considered it was a complete victory for their forces, and warmly cheered the Coastguards for saving the town.’
GLASGOW HERALD
15 AUGUST 1889

THE NAVAL MANOEUVRES

The utmost vigilance is being observed by the Coastguard and Volunteers at Ardrossan to prevent any of the enemy’s fast cruisers or torpedo boats stealing a march on the town.

Arrangements have been made whereby at a given signal the Artillery Volunteers will proceed to the battery to act on the defensive. Mr. Bob Melvine is the chief of the Coastguard here at present, and his conduct on the occasion of the attack of the SPIDER on this port last year was spoken of in Parliament, and will be in the memory of all.

Long before the Commander of the SPIDER dropped round the lighthouse pier, and lay broadside on to the town, “Bob” challenged him, and at close quarters repeated that he could not take the town, which in his position was considered equal to a victory.

His vigilance this year is nowise abated, if indeed it has not yet increased. He is never long off the ramparts behind the lighthouse, glass in hand, watching every speck that heaves in sight between Ailsa Craig and the south side of Arran.
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GLASGOW HERALD
15 AUGUST 1888

MUNICIPAL MEETING – ARDROSSAN

The Police Commissioners met last night – Provost Hogarth presiding.

A recommendation by the Finance Committee to the Commissioners to increase the collector’s (Mr. Adam’s) salary £10 annually, and that of the treasurer (Mr. R. D. Boyd) by £5 per annum. This, after discussion, was agreed to.

Commissioner Barrie asked if their Clerk had not got the feuing plan of the Castle Hill from Lord Eglinton’s Commissioner yet. The clerk answered no, and a discussion arose on the question of what they were to do with a park that most of the Commissioners agreed would come into their hands in November. Bailie Dunwoodie moved that they, as Commissioners, take the park from Martinmass. Mr. Barrie seconded the motion. After a deal of discussion, it was agreed to write to Mr. Vernon, M.P., Lord Eglinton’s Commissioner, for the feuing plans, and on receipt thereof to call a special meeting of Commissioners to initiate the procedure necessary to be taken for acquiring a public park.
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GLASGOW HERALD
15 AUGUST 1888

DEATH

McCANCE: At 24 Barr Lane, Ardrossan, on the 13th instant, aged 23 years, JANE McCANCE, eldest daughter of John McCance, boilermaker, Ardrossan.
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GLASGOW HERALD
15 AUGUST 1851

THE DUCHESS OF KENT

Her Royal Highness left Hamilton Palace on Monday for Brodick Castle, Arran.

Her Royal Highness joined the train at Motherwell about 2 o’clock p.m., and proceeded by the Clydesdale junction and Glasgow & South-Western Railway to Ardrossan, where a steamer was chartered for the purpose of conveying the illustrious lady over to Arran.

Her Royal Highness was accompanied by Prince Vasa of Sweden, and the Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas.
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GLASGOW HERALD
16 AUGUST 1882

VESSEL SPOKEN

NYKOMIE (barque) from Ardrossan, July 26, in latitude 12 N, longitude 26 W.
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16 AUGUST 1812

THE LORD NELSON

The schooner LORD NELSON, while on a voyage from Liverpool to Saltcoats, ran aground on McCammon Rock, Portavogie, Northern Ireland, and was severely damaged.
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VESSEL MINED
16 AUGUST 1940

THE LADY MEATH

The steel screw steamer LADY MEATH, built by the Ardrossan Dockyard Company Limited for the British & Irish Steam Packet Company Limited, Dublin, and launched on the 28 February 1929, while on a voyage from Dublin to Birkenhead, was mined northeast of Holyhead.

The crew of 20 and 8 cattle drovers were saved.
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GLASGOW HERALD
16 AUGUST 1886

MARRIAGE

RITCHIE – HOGARTH: At Whitlees, Ardrossan, on the 13th instant, by the Rev. George Fairgrieve, minister of the West U. P. Church, Saltcoats, ALEXANDER JAMES RITCHIE, iron and steel merchant, Glasgow, to MARIE BLAIR, second daughter of William Hogarth.
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GLASGOW HERALD
16 AUGUST 1882

ARDROSSAN – POLICE COMMISSIONERS

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

The question of providing a pathway from Glasgow Street to Castle Hill was remitted to the Works Committee.

The police report stated that the public-houses were well conducted, no irregularities having been reported during the month.

The Finance Committee were deputed to examine the burgh books, with a view of fixing the rate of assessment.

Two open drains reported to be in an unsatisfactory condition were left to the Works Committee with instructions to have them put in order.
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16 AUGUST

SCOTS JOURNALIST IN UNITED STATES - DEATH OF MR D G BAILLIE WHILE HOME ON HOLIDAY

Mr David G Baillie, who was born at Ardrossan seventy-one years ago and spent fifty years as a journalist in the United States, died on Saturday (14 August 1937) at Aberfeldy. He lived at Guildford, Connecticut, and came to Scotland last month for-a holiday. On 26 July, the day he left the ship, be became ill. Mr Baillie was educated at Edinburgh University and after working on Scottish and English newspapers, during which time he became a friend of Robert Louis Stevenson, he went to America. In New York, he became literary secretary to Andrew Carnegie and was also national political correspondent for the New York Tribune, the New York World, the New York Press and editor of the Los Angeles Herald. He reported Presidents Harrison, Cleveland, McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, and was credited with having coined the Republican slogan ‘a full dinner pail’ 'in the 1896 campaign. Recently he had been engaged in Shakespearean and Burns research.
The Scotsman, 16 August 1937

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David Gemmell Baillie (buried Alderbrook Cemetery)
1865–1937
Birth 20 NOV 1865 • Springvale House, Ardrossan, Ayrshire, Scotland
Death 14 AUG 1937 • Taymouth Castle, Aberfeldy, Scotland (Heart Failure and Anaemia)

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