GLASGOW HERALD 17 MAY 1912 ARDROSSAN PARISH COUNCIL MEETING At a meeting of Ardrossan Parish Council in Saltcoats, Dr. MacDonald was appointed medical officer for the district of New Ardrossan, and Dr. William Turner, Saltcoats, for the district of Old Ardrossan. A report was submitted by the Inspec...

GLASGOW HERALD 17 MAY 1883 THEFT At the pleading diet of a Sheriff and Jury Court at Kilmarnock yesterday, the following case was disposed of: - Elizabeth McDonald or Hamilton, a notorious thief, who has been frequently convicted, on one occasion being sentenced at the Circuit Court to seven years’ ...

GLASGOW HERALD
17 MAY 1867

DEATH - McDONNELL

At 9 South Crescent, Ardrossan, on the 15th instant, Thomas McDonnell, senior, Esquire.

GLASGOW HERALD
17 MAY 1866

DEATH - BROWN

At Parkend, Saltcoats, on the 16th instant, Robert Erskine, aged 67 years, third son of the late William Brown, Esquire.

GLASGOW HERALD
17 MAY 1861

DEATH - MILLER

At Saracen’s Head Inn, Saltcoats, on the 12th instant, Mary Miller, for nearly thirty years the faithful servant of Mr Alexander Campbell there.

GLASGOW HERALD 17 MAY 1913 STRIKE AT NOBEL'S - 3000 EMPLOYEES IDLE - DEMAND FOR INCREASED WAGES The agitation among the employees in Nobel's Explosives Works at Ardeer culminated yesterday in a strike which affected all departments of the factory, and brought operations to a standstill. There are ab...

GLASGOW HERALD 17 MAY 1887 SALTCOATS COMPANY 1ST AYRSHIRE RIFLE VOLUNTEERS versus ‘A’ COMPANY 3rd RENFREWSHIRE RIFLE VOLUNTEERS This shooting match took place on Saturday at the range of the former at Ardeer . The weather was fine, with the exception of a smart shower about five o’clock, but a gutsy...

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...

GLASGOW HERALD
16 MAY 1911

DEATH - LAW

At Kenmuir, Eglinton Road, Ardrossan, on the 15th instant, Marion Renwick, wife of John Law.

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...

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...

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...