EVENING TIMES 29 APRIL 1971 SCOTS GUNMAN GOES FREE AT OLD BAILEY Charles James Ross, a 22-year-old engineer’s fitter, of Glasgow Street, Ardrossan, walked from the Old Bailey today having been granted a conditional discharge for 12 months after pleading guilty to unlawfully possessing a loaded .22 r...

EVENING TIMES 29 APRIL 1968 AUSSIES TRY TO HELP HEARTBREAK HUSBAND A cable went off from Australia House, London, today to immigration authorities in Canberra, the Australian federal capital, backing the plea of heartbreak husband Charles Carson, (26), of Ardrossan, Ayrshire, that his 70-year-old mo...

GLASGOW HERALD 29 APRIL 1933 WIFE MURDER CHARGE James Fergus McMurray, (46), Bank Clerk, Grosvenor Road, Muswell Hill, appeared on remand at Wood Green Police Court, London, yesterday, charged with the murder of his wife Mary Brown McMurray, by shooting her with a revolver, and with attempting to co...

GLASGOW HERALD
29 APRIL 1914

LAUNCH AT ARDROSSAN

The Ardrossan Shipbuilding Company launched yesterday the twin-screw passenger steamer ROBINA, which they have built to the order of the New Coastal Morecambe Pier Company for passenger traffic between Morecambe, Blackpool, and the Isle of Man.

GLASGOW HERALD 29 APRIL 1913 MARRIAGE – ARNOTT and SMITH At the Douglas Hotel, Bath Street, Glasgow, on the 28th instant, by the Rev. R. M. Adamson, M.A., St. John’s United Free Church, Ardrossan, William Arnott, son of ex-Bailie Arnott, Whifflet, Coatbridge, to Jessie, daughter of ex-Bailie Smith, ...

GLASGOW HERALD 29 APRIL 1911 AYRSHIRE ESTATES The inventories of personal estates recently lodged with the Sheriff Clerk of Ayrshire included those of the following persons: - Hugh Brown , retired shipmaster, Craigard, Ardrossan, (including heritage) - £1955 19s 4d. Mrs Mary Allison or Hogarth , wid...

GLASGOW HERALD
29 APRIL 1910

BIRTH -BAIRD

At Nanoya, Anderson Terrace, Ardrossan, on Thursday, 28th April, to Mr and Mrs Baird; a son.

GLASGOW HERALD 29 APRIL 1913 SCOTTISH JUNIOR FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION At a meeting of the Emergency Committee of the Scottish Junior Football Association was held in Glasgow last night. No action was taken in the appeal of Samuel McGivern (Saltcoats Victoria) who had admitted signing a League form for M...

GLASGOW HERALD
29 APRIL 1910

DEATH - CRAIG

At Wingard, Saskatchewan, on 8th April, Abigail Bryce, fourth daughter of the late Robert Bryce, Saltcoats, and wife of William Craig, late of Lochwinnoch.

GLASGOW HERALD 29 APRIL 1913 ARDEER GOLF CLUB Spring Meeting on extended course – R. Craig, (3) 78; J. Thomas, (2) 84; D. B. McLean, (4) 85; George McGregor, (5) 86; Hugh Shedden, (8) 86; Alexander Reid, (16) 88; William Reid, (scratch) 92; Andrew Guthrie, (18) 91; H. Mackay, (8) 95, and Alexander F...

GLASGOW HERALD 29 APRIL 1950 ONE MAN KILLED IN ARDEER EXPLOSION One man was killed and another severely injured about the head when a minor explosion took place in a building at the Ardeer factory of I.C.I., Limited. The man killed was James Reid, (56), bricklayer’s mate, 3 Montgomerie Crescent, Kil...

I recognise that Meekan and George both live locally and are ardent fans of Winton Rovers, attending most, if not all, of their home matches, and am grateful for their detailed responses, which certainly inform me, but don’t console me. Living away for many years, I have missed the transition whereb...