Wishing all Threetowners members and regular visitors to this website a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and all the very best for a healthy and happy 2024. Just think, this year we'll have been Established for Over a Quarter of a Century, as the pawn shop in Saltcoats used to say... Susan

The rest of the Acknowledgements now from 12th November 1971. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AULD - The family of the late Mrs Mary Auld wish to thank all relatives, friends and neighbours for kind expressions of sympathy and floral tributes received in their recent sad bereavement; also Dr Rankin for kind attent...

In the ' History of Three Towns Picture Houses ' , posted here , the Crown gets a mention as one of the first cinemas in Ardrossan, but it states that it's not known where it was, except that it may have been in the Assembly Hall in Bute Place. PS I've now discovered in a later post in the same topi...

Have a very happy birthday, Campbell.

Susan

The Deaths now from 12th November 1971. DEATHS BAKER - At 44 Muirhill Avenue, Glasgow ,S4, on 4th November 1971, Thomas Baker, dearly beloved husband of Helen M Bell. BROWNLIE - At 49 Merksworth Avenue, Dalry, on 3rd November 1971, James Brownlie, aged 70 years, beloved husband of Ellen McIntyre. Ac...

I don't know, PT, but it certainly says in the little article I have about his retirement from the council that it was pressure of business that caused him to resign, which suggests you may be right. Meanwhile, the final three councillors, this time Labour councillors from Stevenston: Councillor Arc...

Here are three more councillors, this time of the Labour Party and in Ardrossan :

Councillor James Watson :


Councillor Joseph Cahill :


and Councillor John McLaughlan :



Susan

I've found some pictures of some Three Towns councillors from the early 1970s, and here are the first three : all Saltcoats councillors of the Tory party. Councillor John McAllister, who served from 1969 to 1971 : J McAllister.jpg Councillor T D Lindsay : T D Lindsay.jpg and lastly Councillor Mrs Ma...

The Marriages and wedding anniversaries now from 12th November 1971. MARRIAGES DODDS- KINCAID - At St John's Church, Ardrossan, on 8th November 1971, by the Rev W J R Hay, BD, James George, elder son of Mr and Mrs G Dodds, " Bellevue ", Montgomerie Street, Ardrossan, to Elizabeth Henderson...

The Engagements now from the Herald of 12th November 1971. ENGAGEMENTS ALLISON - BARR - The engagement is announced between Jackie, elder daughter of Mr J Barr, 3 Lesley Place, Stevenston, and the late Mrs Barr, and Ted, younger son of Mr and Mrs Wm Allison, 27 Main Street, Stevenston. BURNS - HUBBI...

The old paper I discovered contained a BMD section, so going back in time in the sequence now to give you the entries from the Herald of 12th November 1971. BIRTHS ADAMSON - At Buckreddan Maternity Home, Kilwinning, 0n 5th November 1971, to Brian and Betty, 44 Fleming Crescent, Saltcoats, a daughter...

12TH NOVEMBER 1971 AT THE CINEMAS COUNTESS Tonight ( Friday ) and Saturday. Nightly at 6.30: Sunday Bloody Sunday ( X ). Matinee: Saturday 2pm - Special Children's Films. Monday 15th November, for 2 nights at 6.30: June Allyson, Janet Leigh, Peter Lawford, Elizabeth Taylor and Rossano Brazzi in Litt...