GLASGOW HERALD 10 OCTOBER 1891 ARDROSSAN - INSPECTION OF POLICE Yesterday afternoon an inspection of police took place in the yard adjoining the police station. There were 21 policemen in all, drawn from Kilbirnie, Dalry, Barrmill, Glengarnock, Stevenston, and Beith. Captain Munro was inspecting off...

GLASGOW HERALD 9 OCTOBER 1915 WAR CASUALTIES The name of ten additional Ardrossan men have been notified this week in the list of casualties. Mrs Roxburgh, 6 Eglinton Road, Ardrossan, has received official notice that her son, Lance Corporal JAMES ROXBURGH , 6th Black Watch, died in the First Canadi...

GLASGOW HERALD 9 OCTOBER 1937 AYRSHIRE TRAIN MYSTERY On arrival of a Glasgow train late last night at Saltcoats the body of an elderly man was found in a first class compartment. Early this morning Saltcoats Police were investigating the mystery of how he met his death. The man was identified early ...

GLASGOW HERALD
9 OCTOBER 1896

STEVENSTON - APPOINTMENT OF REGISTRAR

Last night at a special meeting of the Parish Council, Mr ANDREW W DONALDSON, Inspector of Poor, was appointed Registrar in room of Mr John Dickie, resigned. There were nine candidates.

GLASGOW HERALD 8 OCTOBER 1889 SALTCOATS - NEW GAS TANK AND GAS HOLDER On Saturday last the new tank and holder which have been for some time under construction in the works of the Saltcoats Gas Light Company were formally completed, and the ceremony of turning on the gas was performed. The tank is o...

GEELONG ADVERTISER 8 OCTOBER 1904 LADY HUSBAND - WOMEN WHO HAVE MARRIED WOMEN The story of Catherine Coome, which was recently related in a London Police Court recalls other instances of women who have been accustomed to live the lives of men, dressing in male attire. ..........In 1882 a woman was d...

JD, Ayr Corporation Tramways opened for public service on 26 September 1901. The depot was located in Alderston Avenue, Ayr. The line ran from Alloway to Prestwick. There were advanced plans for tramways in the Threetowns but they never materialised. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayr_Corporation_Tra...

GLASGOW HERALD 7 OCTOBER 1889 ARDROSSAN - NAVVIES MISSION On Saturday afternoon the second meeting of this mission was held in the hall erected for the use of the men on the Inches. Hon. G R Vernon, M.P., occupied the chair. The general report submitted was very satisfactory. During the year mission...

GLASGOW HERALD 7 OCTOBER 1942 DETAILS OF SHIP IN A LETTER JOHN PATON, (17), Galley Boy, belonging to Saltcoats, who was stated to be earning £23 a month, was fined £10 at a West of Scotland Sheriff Court yesterday on pleading guilty to a charge of having on September 14, despatched a letter by post ...

GLASGOW HERALD 7 OCTOBER 1897 BANKRUPTCY COURT At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court, before Sheriff Hall, ALEX. MCFADZEAN, lately tenant of the White Hart Inn, Stevenston, was examined in a petition for cessio. His liabilities amounted to £468 13s 8d and his assets to £5. He stated that the inn had been take...

GLASGOW HERALD 7 OCTOBER 1897 TROON - MESSAGE FROM THE SEA Information has been received at Troon that last month a bottle was washed ashore at Fecamp (France) containing a piece of paper, on which the following was written:- "Barque CUMBRAE, of Greenock, bound from Newcastle N.S.W., March 3rd,...

GLASGOW HERALD
6 OCTOBER 1891

IRVINE - APPOINTMENT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE

Mr James Smith, formerly Inspector of Police at Saltcoats, has been appointed Superintendent of Police for the Irvine District in room of, Mr Murdoch Bain, who has retired on pension.