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
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- Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:37 am
- Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
- Topic: Nobel's Dynamite and Explosives Factory
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2771
- 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
Irene
- 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
Irene
- 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
Irene
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
Irene
- 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...
- 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
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
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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".
http://www.langnese.de/uk_en/products/w ... fault.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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