GLASGOW HERALD 13 JULY 1886 SALTCOATS - FUNERAL OF MR WILLIAM BRYDEN Yesterday the remains of the late Mr William Bryden, Manager of the Mission Coast Home, were interred at Ardrossan Cemetery. A service was held in the Free Church Hall, at which there was a large attendance. The Rev. Alexander Cros...

Hughie, I'm being pedantic but the photographer would have had his/her back angled to the detached classroom block which included the gym hall. The coal pile, as you say, was along to the left with Fanny's music room, also a detached building, still further along in that direction. I'm now going to ...

It's definitely looks like the gable end of Eglinton School with the entrance to Mr Muir's sweetie shop in the background.

The boy on the extreme right in the back row reminds me of a young Bob Bryden?

GLASGOW HERALD 12 JULY 1952 GIFT TO MINISTER To mark his departure from Kirkcudbright to Ardrossan the Rev. William J McBurnie, who had been parish priest for the past 12 years, was yesterday presented with a gift from the congregation of St Cuthbert's, Kirkcudbright, and St Andrew's, Gatehouse of F...

GLASGOW HERALD 12 JULY 1883 KILMARNOCK SHERIFF COURT At the pleading diet of Kilmarnock Jury Court yesterday - before Sheriff Hall - Agnes Bryan or Murray, wife of Hugh Murray, Labourer, Raise Street, Saltcoats, was charged with an offence under the Registration Act, by having at Largs, on 24th June...

GLASGOW HERALD 11 JULY 1960 ATHLETICS WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL AT STEVENSTON Northern Ireland beat Scotland by 46 points to 44 on Saturday at Ardeer Recreation Ground, Stevenston, in the first women's International match between the two countries, the visiting team winning five of the eight events. The...

Morag, I think you will have all the information I'm about to impart but the detail may help others. The 24/11/1944 edition of the A&S Herald intimates the marriage of WILLIAM J ARMSTRONG QUINN to AGNES MARY MURPHY, Strathaven. The 15/6/1945 edition of the A&S Herald intimated the death of W...

GLASGOW HERALD 10 JULY 1897 KILMARNOCK - FATAL ACCIDENT INQUIRY At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court - before Sheriff Hall and a jury - Public Inquiries were held into circumstances in connection with four fatal accidents. In the case of WILLIAM HAMILTON, Miner, Parkend Road, Saltcoats, the Sheriff suggested...

GLASGOW HERALD 28 MAY 1897 MAN KILLED AT ARDEER FACTORY Shortly before two o'clock yesterday afternoon a man named MATTHEW GARRETT was accidentally killed by an explosion of nitro-glycerine, while engaged cutting up refuse lead from the nitro-glycerine hall. Garrett was cutting into a short length ...

GLASGOW HERALD
10 JULY 1888

ARDROSSAN - DEATH OF AN OLD INHABITANT

Mr Robert Boyd, Builder, died on Sunday evening at the advanced age of 72 years. As a townsman he was widely known and highly respected, while he was a practical builder of great competency and large experience.

But quite why a shepherd should be found at 90 Glasgow Street is harder to make out; unless he grazed his sheep on Castle Hill.... Susan Susan, I was previously intrigued by the shepherd at 90 Glasgow Street and noted that the occupant had the unusual surname GAIRNS. I then looked that name up in t...

GLASGOW HERALD 9 JULY 1888 SALTCOATS - THEFT FROM SKYE MAN On Saturday, at the Burgh Court - before Bailies Kinnier and Campbell - two navvies named JOHN O'TOOLE and ALEX. JOHNSTONE were convicted of stealing 30s from a labourer called Donald Ross, Portree. The accused met Ross in Ardrossan on Frida...