Saltcoats - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
16 MARCH 1910

RECLAIMING GROUND AT SALTCOATS

At the monthly meeting of Saltcoats Town Council – Provost Millar presiding – a plan was submitted showing how an area of 4½ acres could be reclaimed from the sea at Winton Circus.

The estimated cost of forming concrete retaining walls amounted to £310, and of raising the level of the reclaimed land £580.

The Council resolved to continue the matter meantime.

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GLASGOW HERALD
16 MARCH 1849

BIRTH - LECKIE

At Saltcoats, on the 15th instant, Mrs William Leckie, baker; a son.

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GLASGOW HERALD
17 MARCH 1823

BANKRUPTCY – EXAMINATIONS, DIVIDENDS, &c

Hugh Brown, merchant and coalmaster in Saltcoats, has applied to the Court of Session for a discharge.

John Brown, merchant in Saltcoats, has applied to the Court of Session for a discharge.

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GLASGOW HERALD
17 MARCH 1910

THE STANLEY BURN

The town Councils of Ardrossan and Saltcoats are at present considering what steps should be taken to confine Stanley Burn to a defined channel in order that the amenity of the beach may be improved.

It has been remitted to the Surveyors of both burghs to prepare a report on works which they consider could with advantage be carried out.

The burn is the boundary at the beach between the towns.

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GLASGOW HERALD
17 MARCH 1911

SALTCOATS EAST SHORE EMBANKMENT

A special committee appointed by the Town Council to approach the Glasgow & South-Western Railway Company in order that the embankment which protects the railway at the East Shore might be put into a better state of repair, and accesses to the shore formed, reported the result of their conference at a meeting of Saltcoats Town Council.

The Company were prepared to consider a scheme for the improvement of the beach, and invited the Council to submit proposals to state to what extent they are prepared to assist.

The Council, after consideration, agreed that they were unable to assent to the company’s request, for reasons which they give, and they invite the directors of the company to inspect the shore and reconsider the matter.

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GLASGOW HERALD
17 MARCH 1911

RECENT FEVER EPIDEMIC AT SALTCOATS

At the monthly meeting of Kilwinning Town Council, Councillor John King, as delegate to the Smallpox Combination Hospital reported in effect, that to assist the burgh of Saltcoats as much as possible with the expense of the recent epidemic of enteric fever which occurred at that town, the Smallpox Committee had resolved to buy over most of the furnishings which had been put into the hospital by the burgh. The furnishings cost £225.

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GLASGOW HERALD
18 MARCH 1867

BANKRUPTCY – EXAMINATION

FINLAY KERR, carrier and carter in Saltcoats, in the county of Ayr, to be examined in the Sheriff Court House, Ayr, 24th March, at eleven o’clock.

Creditors to meet within the Writing Chambers of Mr James Andrew, solicitor, 21 Newmarket Street, Ayr, 3rd April, at one o’clock.

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GLASGOW HERALD
18 MARCH 1912

ARDROSSAN AND SALTCOATS GOLF CLUB

Fulton Medal, result – Drummond McGillivray, (2) 63; Lindsay McGregor, (9) 68; Harry Gaul, (4) 68); Robert McGillivray, (7) 68.

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GLASGOW HERALD
18 MARCH 1913

MARRIAGE – CAMPBELL and KING

At the Masonic Hall, Saltcoats, on the 14th instant, by the Rev. D. D. Rees, Peter Campbell, Caxton, British Columbia, to Jane Andrew, elder daughter of Robert King, 77 Argyle Road, Saltcoats, late of Border Dairy.

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GLASGOW HERALD
18 MARCH 1913

DEATH - PATERSON

At Saltcoats, on 15th instant, William Paterson, late fruit merchant, 116 Buchanan Street, Glasgow.

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GLASGOW HERALD
19 MARCH 1951

DEATH - WALLACE

At 73 Caledonia Road, Saltcoats, on 16th March, 1951, William Wallace, printer and stationer, beloved husband of Mary Dick Boyter.

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GLASGOW HERALD
19 MARCH 1953

BIRTH - JENKINS

At Ayrshire Central Hospital, Irvine, on 12th March, 1953, to Mr and Mrs Brian Jenkins (Audrey Smith), 23 Montgomerie Crescent, Saltcoats, a son (a brother for Sally and David).