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- Thu May 16, 2024 7:57 am
- Forum: Three towns - this day in history
- Topic: Ardrossan - On This Day In History
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Re: Ardrossan - On This Day In History
GLASGOW HERALD 16 MAY 1913 SMACK FOUNDERS AT ARDROSSAN On Wednesday evening the smack JESSIE KERR, carrying a cargo of coal from Ardrossan to Millport, grounded on a edge of rock within the breakwater at Ardrossan Harbour, and shortly afterwards sank. It is thought it will be possible to re-float th...
- Thu May 16, 2024 7:54 am
- Forum: Three towns - this day in history
- Topic: Ardrossan - On This Day In History
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Re: Ardrossan - On This Day In History
GLASGOW HERALD
16 MAY 1911
DEATH - LAW
At Kenmuir, Eglinton Road, Ardrossan, on the 15th instant, Marion Renwick, wife of John Law.
16 MAY 1911
DEATH - LAW
At Kenmuir, Eglinton Road, Ardrossan, on the 15th instant, Marion Renwick, wife of John Law.
- Thu May 16, 2024 7:53 am
- Forum: Three towns - this day in history
- Topic: Saltcoats - On This Day In History
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Re: Saltcoats - On This Day In History
GLASGOW HERALD 16 MAY 1907 NEW POLICE STATION A new police station is to be erected in Green Street, adjoining the Town Hall, at Saltcoats. The new building will have accommodation for a superintendent, inspector, sergeant, and several unmarried constables. There will be six cells, and it has been a...
- Thu May 16, 2024 7:53 am
- Forum: Three towns - this day in history
- Topic: Stevenston - On This Day In History
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Re: Stevenston - On This Day In History
GLASGOW HERALD 16 MAY 1914 ARDEER EXPLOSION – GOVERNMENT WHITE PAPER The report of Major A. Cooper-Kay, Chief Inspector of Explosives, on the explosion at Nobel’s Ardeer Factory on February 20 last was issued as a Home Office White Paper last night. By this explosion, which occurred in the incorpora...
- Thu May 16, 2024 7:52 am
- Forum: Three towns - this day in history
- Topic: Stevenston - On This Day In History
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Re: Stevenston - On This Day In History
GLASGOW HERALD 16 MAY 1913 STRIKE AT NOBEL’S FACTORY Last evening a mass meeting of the workers in Nobel’s Explosives Works at Stevenston was held in the Town Hall, Saltcoats, when Mr Gilbert Lewis, president of the Scottish Union of Dock Labourers, presided over a gathering numbering over 1000. The...
- Thu May 16, 2024 7:52 am
- Forum: Three towns - this day in history
- Topic: Stevenston - On This Day In History
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Re: Stevenston - On This Day In History
GLASGOW HERALD
16 MAY 1910
ARDEER GOLF CLUB
Heys Medal – N. M. Hyslop, (3) 76; J.L. Steven, (8) 76 (previous winner); and George McGregor. (9) 81.
Robertson Medal – George Kirkhope, (14) 79, (winner); and D. Martin, (13) 79, (previous winner).
16 MAY 1910
ARDEER GOLF CLUB
Heys Medal – N. M. Hyslop, (3) 76; J.L. Steven, (8) 76 (previous winner); and George McGregor. (9) 81.
Robertson Medal – George Kirkhope, (14) 79, (winner); and D. Martin, (13) 79, (previous winner).
- Wed May 15, 2024 7:26 pm
- Forum: Books, Movies, Radio & Television
- Topic: What's the latest movie you've seen?
- Replies: 325
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Re: What's the latest movie you've seen?
Glenshena, I saw it advertised but couldn't bring myself to watch it. I would fall in love again with Doris Day :roll:, and be singing about the Deadwood Stage for a fortnight. I first saw it in the "Bug Hut " (The Lyric Cinema, Princes Street, Ardrossan) when admittance was either by way ...
- Wed May 15, 2024 8:37 am
- Forum: Three towns - this day in history
- Topic: Ardrossan - On This Day In History
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Re: Ardrossan - On This Day In History
GLASGOW HERALD
15 MAY 1913
NO PORTUGUESE CONSULATE AT ARDROSSAN
Owing to trade between Portugal and the Ayrshire ports having dwindled away during the last 15 years it has been decided not to appoint a successor to Mr William Anderson, the former Portuguese Vice-Consul at Ardrossan.
15 MAY 1913
NO PORTUGUESE CONSULATE AT ARDROSSAN
Owing to trade between Portugal and the Ayrshire ports having dwindled away during the last 15 years it has been decided not to appoint a successor to Mr William Anderson, the former Portuguese Vice-Consul at Ardrossan.
- Wed May 15, 2024 8:37 am
- Forum: Three towns - this day in history
- Topic: Ardrossan - On This Day In History
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Re: Ardrossan - On This Day In History
GLASGOW HERALD
15 MAY 1913
BIRTH - McINTOSH
At Lewis, Anderson Terrace, Ardrossan, on 13th May, to Mr and Mrs McIntosh; a daughter.
15 MAY 1913
BIRTH - McINTOSH
At Lewis, Anderson Terrace, Ardrossan, on 13th May, to Mr and Mrs McIntosh; a daughter.
- Wed May 15, 2024 8:36 am
- Forum: Three towns - this day in history
- Topic: Ardrossan - On This Day In History
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Re: Ardrossan - On This Day In History
GLASGOW HERALD 15 MAY 1912 ARDROSSAN TOWN COUNCIL MEETING At the monthly meeting of Ardrossan Town Council – Provost Chrystie presiding – the Provost reported that the committee to which the question of taking over the South Beach Green had been remitted had been in communication with Lord Eglinton’...
- Wed May 15, 2024 8:36 am
- Forum: Three towns - this day in history
- Topic: Ardrossan - On This Day In History
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Re: Ardrossan - On This Day In History
GLASGOW HERALD 15 MAY 1911 ARDROSSAN AND WEST KILBRIDE FARMERS’ SOCIETY SHOW The annual show under he auspices of the Ardrossan and West Kilbride Farmers’ Society took place on Saturday at Ardrossan. A cold north-easterly wind blew across the field all day and soe showers of rain fell, yet there was...
- Wed May 15, 2024 8:35 am
- Forum: Three towns - this day in history
- Topic: Saltcoats - On This Day In History
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Re: Saltcoats - On This Day In History
GLASGOW HERALD
15 MAY 1912
DEATH - PATON
At Saltcoats, on 14th May, James Paton, of Gen Nevis, Rothesay (late of Greenock), aged 83 years.
15 MAY 1912
DEATH - PATON
At Saltcoats, on 14th May, James Paton, of Gen Nevis, Rothesay (late of Greenock), aged 83 years.