Ardrossan Winton Rovers are nearing the end a season in which they have been promoted for the second successive time. Next season they will play in the West of Scotland Football League First Division – most likely as Second Division champions if they do well in their remaining three games. After the...

Penny Tray My guess is that The Ardrossan Tabernacle was in Bute Place as the building with the red door at this link - http://www.s173884875.websitehome.co.uk/Bute%20Place%206B.htm . The building with the red door in the background was built as the Evangelical Union (EU) Congregational Church and o...

I have just learned that John Goodwin was born on 19 May 1893 at 2 WINTON STREET, Ardrossan, 220 yards or two pitch lengths from WINTON PARK where he played for WINTON ROVERS.

George

John Alexander Goodwin was the first Winton Rovers player to play for the Scottish Junior national team when he represented his country against England in front of a crowd of 20000 at Firhill Park, Glasgow on 1 April 1911. He made two other international appearances, scoring in a 2-0 win against Ire...

Much news nowadays is bad so it’s a joy to hear a happy story - and long may the togetherness continue. Congratulations and best wishes to you both, Hughie and Betty.
George

GLASGOW HERALD 7 MARCH 1881 DEATH – BRYCE-DOUGLAS At Broomhill Avenue, Partick, on the 4th instant, Jessie Caldwell, daughter of A.D. Bryce-Douglas. [ A. D. Bryce-Douglas was a resident of Seafield Tower, Ardrossan .] Archibald Douglas Bryce-Douglas and his daughter Jessie are buried in Ardrossan C...

All the best, Angus.
George

Best wishes, Hughie, and thanks for the huge amount of work that you have put into the ThreeTowners website over many years.
George

Best wishes, Robert
George

I should have added that the team played in the 1990s.

George

A friend told me yesterday that a team called West Bromwich Albion Boys' Club regularly played football at Laighdykes Playing Fields in Saltcoats. I had never heard of such a team and wonder if anyone knows anything about them.

George

175 years ago today, MacFadzean's Monument on the Castle Hill in Ardrossan was unveiled. Alexander MacFadzean was a doctor who cared for the poor free of charge. The Monument, which can be seen by clicking http://www.s173884875.websitehome.co.uk/Images/MacFadzean%27sMonument19.jpg , was funded by do...