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by hahaya2004
Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:37 am
Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
Topic: Nobel's Dynamite and Explosives Factory
Replies: 12
Views: 2771

Re: Nobel's Dynamite and Explosives Factory

George, this link might be of interest to you.....
http://nobelprize.org/alfred_nobel/indu ... index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Irene
by hahaya2004
Mon Jan 11, 2010 12:06 pm
Forum: McBlether's Lounge
Topic: Happy Birthday - Oor Betty
Replies: 20
Views: 4400

Re: Happy Birthday - Oor Betty

Happy Birthday, Betty. Enjoy your very special day.
Irene :smt039
by hahaya2004
Sat Jan 09, 2010 12:51 pm
Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
Topic: ARDROSSAN - from an 1882 document
Replies: 5
Views: 1171

Re: ARDROSSAN - from an 1882 document

George, in my not very new (1969) Oxford pocket dictionary "Facile" is shown as "easy, working easily, fluent, easy-going, flexible." which isn't really negative. In 1882 the meaning of the word may have been more complimentary than it is nowadays.
Irene
by hahaya2004
Sat Jan 02, 2010 5:45 pm
Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
Topic: Tontine Inn, Ardrossan
Replies: 42
Views: 11152

Re: Tontine Inn, Ardrossan

Thanks, PT. That's very interesting. If the baths were known as the Tontine Baths then the "Lodgings" were most likely known as the Tontine Inn (later to be re-named?).

Irene
by hahaya2004
Sat Jan 02, 2010 3:38 pm
Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
Topic: Tontine Inn, Ardrossan
Replies: 42
Views: 11152

Re: Tontine Inn, Ardrossan

I found another bit of information that may expain the name "Tontine Inn". This is from the Statistical Account written July 1837: " Baths - The baths of Ardrossan, - a large and somewhat elegant building, - are well known, and deservedly in repute. They were projected by the late Ear...
by hahaya2004
Fri Jan 01, 2010 11:08 pm
Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
Topic: Tontine Inn, Ardrossan
Replies: 42
Views: 11152

Re: Tontine Inn, Ardrossan

PT, I think the lodge you mentioned can't be Ardrossan. I looked up their history and they received their Charter in 1826 and met in McBride's Hall Saltcoats, across from the Town Hall. They moved to Ardrossan in 1854 and held their first meeting in the Railway Hotel and their second one month later...
by hahaya2004
Fri Jan 01, 2010 5:58 pm
Forum: McBlether's Lounge
Topic: Happy Birthday - TheTeslarian
Replies: 12
Views: 4236

Re: Happy Birthday - TheTeslarian

Happy Birthday, Teslarian. All the best.
Irene
by hahaya2004
Fri Jan 01, 2010 5:49 pm
Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
Topic: Tontine Inn, Ardrossan
Replies: 42
Views: 11152

Re: Tontine Inn, Ardrossan

Irene, What's 20 years between pals - and 1847 would maybe fit in nicely with the map you refer to? Too true, PT. :lol: I wonder what happened to it. Any idea what is there now, if anything? Here's the link to the map. http://www.nls.uk/maps/coasts/admiralty.cfm?id=1232" onclick="window.o...
by hahaya2004
Thu Dec 31, 2009 5:39 pm
Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
Topic: Tontine Inn, Ardrossan
Replies: 42
Views: 11152

Re: Tontine Inn, Ardrossan

No need to apologize, PT.
The excerpt is very interesting. The name Ardrossan seems to have applied originally to the castle itself and not the old village.
Irene
p.s. the date is 1847
by hahaya2004
Thu Dec 31, 2009 5:10 pm
Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
Topic: Tontine Inn, Ardrossan
Replies: 42
Views: 11152

Re: Tontine Inn, Ardrossan

George, I think there was only one inn/hotel in Ardrossan at that time, although I haven't found a name for it. It was at the harbour and is shown on the admiralty map of 1840. I found this description of it: " The Inn, or Hotel is, unquestionably, the most superb of any, out of a great town, i...
by hahaya2004
Thu Dec 31, 2009 3:28 pm
Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
Topic: How it maybe was - 1892
Replies: 100
Views: 11907

Re: How it maybe was - 1892

(5) Slaughters any cattle or dresses any part thereof, except in the case of any cattle over-driven, or which may have met with any accident, and which, for the public safety or other reasonable cause, ought to be killed on the spot. Little Plum, this sub-section introduces "dresses" yet ...
by hahaya2004
Tue Dec 29, 2009 9:53 pm
Forum: McBlether's Lounge
Topic: MIVVI
Replies: 11
Views: 2998

Re: MIVVI

Is this a MIVVI, PT. I remember the name "split".

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