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by Penny Tray
Fri Mar 29, 2024 12:13 am
Forum: Three towns - this day in history
Topic: Ardrossan - On This Day In History
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GLASGOW HERALD 29 MARCH 1912 COAL DISCOVERED AT ARDROSSAN An outcrop of coal has been discovered at the Inches, Ardrossan, the seam being about nine inches in thickness. Yesterday fully 100 people were engaged in digging, and the seam was opened up for a length of over 50 yards. A good many dockers ...
by Penny Tray
Fri Mar 29, 2024 12:13 am
Forum: Three towns - this day in history
Topic: Ardrossan - On This Day In History
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GLASGOW HERALD 29 MARCH 1911 STEAMER TRAFFIC BETWEEN ARDROSSAN AND ARRAN On Saturday the Glasgow & South-Western Railway Company take over control for the season of the steamer traffic between Ardrossan and Arran. An arrangement has now been come to between the railway companies and the Harbour ...
by Penny Tray
Fri Mar 29, 2024 12:12 am
Forum: Three towns - this day in history
Topic: Ardrossan - On This Day In History
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Views: 1438818

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GLASGOW HERALD 29 MARCH 1911 FREE GAS COOKERS FOR ARDROSSAN The Town Council of Ardrossan has decided to supply free gas cookers to all householders in the burgh who wish to have them. This step has been taken with a view to increasing the consumption of gas and ultimately to cheapen the illuminant,...
by Penny Tray
Fri Mar 29, 2024 12:12 am
Forum: Three towns - this day in history
Topic: Stevenston - On This Day In History
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GLASGOW HERALD 29 MARCH 1875 ROUP OF TENT GROUND FOR EGLINTON HUNT MEETING A roup of ground for tents for the sale of refreshments during the Eglinton Hunt Meeting at Irvine on 8th and 9th April, was held at Bogside Farm, near Irvine, on Saturday forenoon. There was a good attendance of successful b...
by Penny Tray
Fri Mar 29, 2024 12:12 am
Forum: Three towns - this day in history
Topic: Ardrossan - On This Day In History
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GLASGOW HERALD 29 MARCH 1847 ONE OF THE POOR IRISH One of Friday morning’s early trains from Ardrossan saw a poor, emaciated, tattered and miserable-looking representative of the “finest pisantry in the world” set down in the terminus of the Ayrshire Railway Company. He had not forgotten to bring wi...
by Penny Tray
Fri Mar 29, 2024 12:09 am
Forum: Three towns - this day in history
Topic: Saltcoats - On This Day In History
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GLASGOW HERALD
29 MARCH 1841

DEATH - FULLERTON

At Saltcoats, Mary Brown, wife of James Fullerton.
by Penny Tray
Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:18 pm
Forum: Three towns - this day in history
Topic: Ardrossan - On This Day In History
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GLASGOW HERALD 28 MARCH 1864 PECULIAR CASE OF THEFT On Wednesday last, while a daughter of the Rev. Mr Finlay, Free Church minister of West Kilbride, was passing through the village, she dropped a purse containing two sovereigns. It was picked up by a woman, but a biscuit van driver from Greenock, n...
by Penny Tray
Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:17 pm
Forum: Three towns - this day in history
Topic: Saltcoats - On This Day In History
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Views: 904685

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GLASGOW HERALD 28 MARCH 1851 FOUL PLAY On Saturday last, a young woman residing in Saltcoats was apprehended and sent to Kilmarnock to be tried by the Sheriff Substitute there, charged with using foul play to her infant child, lately deceased. Its body was opened and submitted to medical inspection....
by Penny Tray
Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:16 pm
Forum: Three towns - this day in history
Topic: Stevenston - On This Day In History
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Views: 688053

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GLASGOW HERALD
28 MARCH 1912

DEATH - BICKET

Suddenly, at Main Street, Stevenston, on 27th March, Robert Bicket, flesher.
by Penny Tray
Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:55 pm
Forum: Three towns - this day in history
Topic: Ardrossan - On This Day In History
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GLASGOW HERALD 27 MARCH 1912 CIRCUIT COURT AT AYR Lord Mackenzie presided at a Circuit Court at Ayr yesterday. There was only one case for trial. James O’Neill, a well-dressed man, was charged with having on February 5 or 6, at Montgomerie Pier, Ardrossan, stole a purse and 23s from the person of a ...
by Penny Tray
Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:54 pm
Forum: Three towns - this day in history
Topic: Ardrossan - On This Day In History
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GLASGOW HERALD 27 MARCH 1911 SCOTTISH JUNIOR FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION At a meeting of the Selection Committee of the Scottish Junior Football Association in Glasgow on Saturday the team was chosen to oppose England at Firhill Park, Glasgow, on Saturday first. Included in the team was: - Goodwin (Ardross...
by Penny Tray
Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:54 pm
Forum: Three towns - this day in history
Topic: Ardrossan - On This Day In History
Replies: 8119
Views: 1438818

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GLASGOW HERALD
27 MARCH 1848

GLASGOW, KILMARNOCK, & ARDROSSAN RAILWAY

The Half-yearly Ordinary Meeting of the shareholders of this railway, was held on Saturday last, in Carrick’s Royal Hotel, Glasgow – the Earl of Eglinton and Winton in the chair.